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Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

brianjking wrote: post #228
cjbprime wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think those are illegal now. They have been in California for a long time. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/...

Could still cover him, no idea though. Via the FTC link: "Existing noncompetes for senior executives - who represent less than 0.75% of workers - can remain in force under the FTC’s final rule, but employers are banned from entering into or attempting to enforce any new noncompetes, even if they involve senior executives. Employers will be required to provide notice to workers other than senior executives who are bou…

Doesn’t matter since CA has broader laws anyway

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Post by data_maan »

jonathankoren wrote: post #48
wavelander wrote: post #4

Altman's tweet ( https://x.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056?s=46 ) makes it seem as if he wanted to stay, and Ilya disagreed and "chose" to depart. Very interesting framing.

Nah. It’s same platitudes that’s always said when a someone high profile is fired.

Easily the most plat of all platitudes of our generation

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Post by bamboozled »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #240
andsoitis wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to Mr Altman’s tweet ( https://twitter.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056 ) they had not just one but TWO of the greatest minds of this generation. After this change they will have only one.

Sam Altman's tweet only implies that they had >= 2 greatest minds of this generation, and now they have at least one of this breed of people.

Two is one and one is none.

Not actually sure how much Ilya was doing in the end, but clearly he did a bit, so it's likely a big a loss whatever way you look at it.

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Post by robbomacrae »

FinchNova12 wrote: post #269
photochemsyn wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it might be in the best (long-term) interests of humanity to have autonomous flying killer robots powered by OpenAI secret military contracting work cut the human population in half, in the name of the long-term ecological health of the planet, and to cull those not smart or fast enough to run away, thus improving the breeding stock. That's why I don't trust people who run around claiming to be serving the best…

What? How is this not saying "Well, it might be in the best interests of humanity for OpenAI to do [hypothetical thing that seems pretty bad that OpenAI has never suggested to do], and because they may consider doing said thing, we shouldn't trust them"?

I think OP is just pointing out that "acting in the best interests of humanity" is fairly ambiguous and leaves enough room for interpretation and spin to cover any number of sins.

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Post by twobitshifter »

ren_engineer wrote: post #18

seemed inevitable after that ouster attempt, probably just working out the details of the exit. But the day after their new features release announcement?

I believe Omni was his work based on an interview he gave about end to end multimodal training being needed to move to the next level of understanding.

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Post by whimsicalism »

elphinstone wrote: post #225
whimsicalism wrote: post #213

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my guess is that a significantly underrated reason is that Google holds itself to stricter data compliance standards than OAI

That is openly laughable. Incognito mode claims, just one of a long list of examples of this politicized monopoly engaging in criminal behavior.

I don’t think that’s a fair take nor does it really disprove mine.

The compliance regime at big corps is definitely more sophisticated than at a player like OAI

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Post by nicce »

mnk47 wrote: post #259
paxys wrote: post #246

Why does everyone here think that the guy who quit/lost his job at OpenAI because he didn't agree with their corporate shift and departure from the original non-profit vision is going to be lining up for another big corporate job building closed for-profit AI?

>the guy who quit/lost his job at OpenAI because he didn't agree with their corporate shift and departure from the original non-profit vision There is no evidence of this being true. He is one of the biggest proponents of keeping AI closed-source, by the way.

> He is one of the biggest proponents of keeping AI closed-source, by the way.

From quite different reasons than profit, tho

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