Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

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#310740 18-Nov-2023 09:53

Developing situation but not great that the board considers him to be obfuscating information... Given the risks of AI it makes you question everything he's said publicly now. Which we should all be doing anyway....

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23965982/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

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#3160797 18-Nov-2023 10:49

Super unusual. The board statement referenced benefit to humanity and the founding charter. That makes it sound like your hypothesis.

The other thing is OpenAI is in a funding round yet to close. The issue may have been something related to that and the other thing.

I imagine Altman will be heading straight for xAI with an offer from Musk sometime soon.

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#3160800 18-Nov-2023 11:07

To say this is big news is an understatement. He spoke at the APEC summit just yesterday.
https://youtube.com/live/ZFFvqRemDv8?si=ar1qqGPBCS8Sje7F

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#3161280 19-Nov-2023 21:01

And I just read that 3 senior OpenAI researchers have resigned in the wake of this. I wonder what we don't know.

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#3161332 19-Nov-2023 22:07

Yet they trying to re hire him? lol

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#3161925 21-Nov-2023 10:49

Looks like he's gone to Microsoft. Apparently Emmett Shear (Twitch co-founder) is taking his place.

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#3162584 22-Nov-2023 20:44

This has been the most ridiculous few days.

Now, after he's been tentatively reinstated, a letter to the board from concerned ex employees emerges.

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#3162593 22-Nov-2023 21:40

I thought he was going to Microsoft?

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#3162597 22-Nov-2023 21:52

That was this morning. Tonight he's back at OpenAI. He's not back at Microsoft until tomorrow morning.

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#3162598 22-Nov-2023 22:25

Or a state of Superposition, having gone Quantum.

Microsoft own 49% of Open AI, so I suppose they kinda still have a lot of him either way.

True Open Source projects have had splits.
I suppose this party commercial, partly non commercial monster is a wilder ride.

By all accounts he is a highly driven individual, so going slowly is absolutely not his style.

Wikipedia page seems a bit thin but there is this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

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Altman is a prepper.[3][61] He said in 2016: "I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to."[3]
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#3162599 22-Nov-2023 22:38

So, did Emmett Shear even get to walk through the front doors? Rather short lived interim CEO position, it would seem.

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#3162620 23-Nov-2023 06:09

ezbee:

Or a state of Superposition, having gone Quantum.

Microsoft own 49% of Open AI, so I suppose they kinda still have a lot of him either way.

True Open Source projects have had splits.
I suppose this party commercial, partly non commercial monster is a wilder ride.

By all accounts he is a highly driven individual, so going slowly is absolutely not his style.

Wikipedia page seems a bit thin but there is this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

""
Altman is a prepper.[3][61] He said in 2016: "I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to."[3]
""