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OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
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#372Earlier quoted context omitted.
He’s on the board!
I'm extremely confused by this. It seems absurd that he could sign a letter seemingly demanding his own resignation, but also not resign? There must be some missing information.
> There must be some missing information.
Or possibly some misinformation. It does seem very strange, and more than a little confusing.
I have to keep reminding myself that information ultimately sourced from Twitter/X threads can't necessarily be taken at face value. Whatever the situation, I'm sure it will become clearer over the next few days.
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#373 nom nom nom
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#374Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
#375If they join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman at Microsoft they will not need to start from scratch because Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT. Also keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits. So this could end up being the cheapest acquisition for Microsoft: They get a $90 Billion company for peanuts. [1]…
> Microsoft hasn't actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits To be clear, these are still an asset OpenAI holds. It should at least let them continue doing research for a few years.
But how much of that research will be for the non-profit mission? The entire non-profit leadership got cleared out and will get replaced by for-profit puppets, there is nobody left to defend the non-profit ideals they ought to have.
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#376Earlier quoted context omitted.
he even posted a apology: https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028?s=20 what the actual fuck =O
Naive is too soft a word. How can you be so smart and so out of touch at the same time?
IQ and EQ are different things. Some people are very technically smart to know a trillion side effects of technical systems. But can be really bad/binary/shallow at knowing side order effects of human dynamics.
Ilya's role is a Chief Scientist. It may be fair to give at least some benefit of doubt. He was vocal/direct/binary, and also vocally apologized and worked back. In human dynamics – I'd usually look for the silent orchestrator behind the scenes that nobody talks about.
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#378The speed at which this is happening could be a masterful execution of getting out of under the non-profit status.
The corporate structure is so convoluted, OpenAI is only part non profit.
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#379What does this mean?
> You also informed the leadership team that allowing the company to be destroyed “would be consistent with the mission.”
Is the board taking a doomer perspective and seeking to prevent the company developing unsafe AI? But Emmett Shear said it wasn’t about safety? What on earth is going on?
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#380Well, great to see that the potentially dangerous future of AGI is in good hands.
Poor little geepeet is witnessing their first custody battle :(
Daddies, mommy, don't you love me? Don't you love each other? Why are you all leaving?