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Smart move by Microsoft. But I will be curious to see how long Sam and Greg last?
It is going to be completely different for them. They are not going to have anywhere near the autonomy they enjoyed at OpenAI.
But this entire episode is a bit mind blowing.
One thing I find interesting is that Alphabet had two AI competitors. Cruise and OpenAI.
Both companies look to have self destructed. Cruise CEO resigned over the weekend.
In both cases it looks like it was about safety. AI is so different from other technologies.
There is such a huge safety aspect. It could be we will see a lot of stuff like this. Where people with AI thought they could move fast and break things and found out they really could not that someone is watching and not going to let them.
Neither Sam or Greg have ML background so idk why they are being hired for an essentially chief scientist role in this new lab. Altman basically has the skillset of a CEO, he's good at attracting talent, marketing himself and his company, and raising money. Not the skillset of a research lead. They'll probably stay just long enough to market it a bit and then move onto the next thing.
I don’t think you realize Sam is literally the CEO of this new company, it’s not just some small Microsoft’s department, this is effectively a new company owned by Microsoft just like deepmind has its own CEO but is also technically owned by google.
The GPT-4 Lead has already quit OpenAI to join Sam and Greg, and Greg has experience himself being listed as lead of infrastructure team on the GPT-4 paper, actually Greg Brockman has more significant main contributions on the official GPT-4 paper than Ilya does.