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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by darajava »

Mentlo wrote: post #757

I am a bit perplexed by the amount of comments praising Sam as an absolute god and the second coming of tech leadership Jesus. The company is not profitable and miles away from being profitable, I’d go as far to say it doesn’t have a path to profit. Outside of the copilot use cases that MS is leading - GPT is both cost ineffective, and not that terribly impressive - it’s built on foundational technologies developed e…

I agree with a lot of what you said but the product is definitely not useless. ChatGPT alone has saved me a lot of time. If it does get a lot better, then it will be even more useful.

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Post by jsksjfjksmekfiz »

P_I_Staker wrote: post #739
baidifnaoxi wrote: post #405

- Cant be a personal scandal, press release would be worded much more differently - Board is mostly independent and those independent dont have equity - They talk about not being candid - this is legalese for “lying” The only major thing that could warrant something like this is Sam going behind the boards back to make a decision (or make progress on a decision) that is misaligned with the Charter. Thats the only fir…

It is a personal scandal and I thought it was obvious from the press release. Prior to the Reddit comments, I thought this might be the case, but perhaps I was somehow influenced. Actually, I thought it would be something inappropriate in the workplace. His sister says he molested her when he was a teenager. The way these things break, I’m not surprised it went down that way. Here’s what I thought reading the release…

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Post by drodio »

1723 comments are a lot to get through. I just made a SmartChat of them for anyone who wants to ask for a summary. Anyone can chat with it here: https://go.storytell.ai/sam-altman-hn-comments-smartchat

I just tried "Write a summary of the content, followed by a list in bullet format of the most interesting points. Bold the bullet points, followed by a 100-character summary of each." Here's the output: https://s.drod.io/DOuPLxwP

Also interesting is "List the top 10 theories of why Sam Altman was fired by the OpenAI board in table format, with the theory title in the first column and a 100 word summary in the second column." Here's that output: https://s.drod.io/v1unG2vG

Helps to turn markdown mode on to see the list & table.

Hope that helps!

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Post by dmichulke »

In my mind, Altman lost all his credibility when he said AI is gonna take over the world soon and that he's not sure it's ethical to continue the work.

It makes sense from a selling perspective (induce FOMO in potential buyers) but it's a wild guess at best and a lie at worst.

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Post by 698969 »

philippemnoel wrote: post #242

I just got an email saying they're moving to pre-paid billing... Seems like Sam Altman might've hidden some very large financial costs that the board just discovered?

MSFT runs it on their own infrastructure and gives it away for free in Bing. How come that it's financially feasible for them running it for free and not for OpenAI which has paid subscriptions?
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