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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by fsloth »

tchalla wrote: post #838
gordon_freeman wrote: post #788

From NYT article [1] and Greg's tweet [2] "In a post to X Friday evening, Mr. Brockman said that he and Mr. Altman had no warning of the board’s decision. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” he wrote. “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.” Mr. Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the board at noon on Friday and was immediately fired, according to Mr. Broc…

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All video call software suck in various ways. Corporate IT throttling&filtering and analyzing traffic with a mismash of third party offerings ”to increase security” does not help.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by erhaetherth »

dwd wrote: post #856
johnwheeler wrote: post #699

Ilya booted him https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294

Jeremy Howard called ngmi on OpenAI during the Vanishing Gradients podcast yesterday, and Ilya has probably been thinking the same: LLM is a dead-end and not the path to AGI. https://twitter.com/HamelHusain/status/1725655686913392933

Did we ever think LLMs were a path to AGI...? AGI is friggin hard, I don't know why folks keep getting fooled whenever a bot writes a coherent sentence.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by MattRix »

dwd wrote: post #856
johnwheeler wrote: post #699

Ilya booted him https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294

Jeremy Howard called ngmi on OpenAI during the Vanishing Gradients podcast yesterday, and Ilya has probably been thinking the same: LLM is a dead-end and not the path to AGI. https://twitter.com/HamelHusain/status/1725655686913392933

This is not the reason Ilya did it. Also the rest of that guy’s comments were just really poorly thought out. OpenAI had to temporarily stop sign ups because of demand and somehow he thinks that’s a bad thing? Absurd.

That guy has no sense of time, of how fast this stuff has actually been moving.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by fsloth »

waihtis wrote: post #862
gordon_freeman wrote: post #788

From NYT article [1] and Greg's tweet [2] "In a post to X Friday evening, Mr. Brockman said that he and Mr. Altman had no warning of the board’s decision. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” he wrote. “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.” Mr. Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the board at noon on Friday and was immediately fired, according to Mr. Broc…

power hijack by the doomers. too bad the cat is out of the bag already

Quite possible actually, this seems to become a really hot political potato with at least 3 types of ambition running it 1. Business 2. Regulatory 3. ’Religious/Academic’. By latter I mean the divide between ai doomerists and others is caused by insubstantiable dogma (doom/nirvana).

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by satvikpendem »

tchalla wrote: post #838
gordon_freeman wrote: post #788

From NYT article [1] and Greg's tweet [2] "In a post to X Friday evening, Mr. Brockman said that he and Mr. Altman had no warning of the board’s decision. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” he wrote. “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.” Mr. Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the board at noon on Friday and was immediately fired, according to Mr. Broc…

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Google Meet is quite good, much better than Teams, IME.

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Post by cedilla »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #854

This thread reads like a horde of gossiping high schoolers. No one knows what truly motivated to board to make this decision, so there’s no point in posting random theories.

People just can't resist, even though most times you only have to wait a few days for more details to come out.

Also, people (including me) never want to believe in mundane reasons, despite most things happening for mundane reasons.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by PaulRobinson »

podnami wrote: post #421
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…

Doesn’t make any sense. He is ideologically driven - why would he risk a once in a lifetime opportunity for a mere sale? Desperate times calls for desperate measures. This is a swift way for OpenAI to shield the business from something which is a PR disaster, probably something which would make Sam persona non grata in any business context.

It is probably - for him - a once in a lifetime sale.
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