Sounds like a hostile takeover to me. Waiting to hear Sam's side of the story.
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
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#32What? I don’t understand this at all after all those interviews and openAI profiles.
It was always a bit strange that he never had a share nor took salary from OpenAI, but then what about his vision(and dream from childhood)to achieve AGI and all?
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#33I have a strong gut feeling they're about to mess things up.
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#34Quickly scanning the title I thought 'Leadership Transition' is yet another AI service announced.
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#35Usually, they say bs like "He wants to leave to pursue other opportunities", you never hear something as candid as "He is hindering us so we want to get rid of him"
My favorite is "Leaving to spend more time with their family."
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#36> Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately. > Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has conf…
So this is probably indicative of a scandal of some sort right?
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#37def some sort of scandal. The prodigy Altman is booted after creating potentially the most successful company of all time and replaced by CTO who had no prior ML/AI experience becomes CEO. Wow.
It strange - they could easily have done this with a different timeline and framed it as taking the company to the next level. Growing how fast they are definitely will require completely different leadership than when they were small.
Definitely smells of a scandal - why else would they need to get him out so quick?
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#39>Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI. Strangest thing in company's PR when they're thriving!
If OpenAI’s governing board is part of the nonprofit, their obligations are to the goals of the nonprofit, and “thriving” is not fundamentally the goal.
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#40Could we get a less vague title than "leadership transition" please?
The subheading of the article, minus unnecessary words, would be a big improvement:
Sam Altman departs OpenAI; interim replacement is CTO Mira Murati