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[N] Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will join Microsoft to lead new advanced AI research team (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Civil_Collection7267@alien.top to c/machinelearning@academy.garden

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Source: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/19/a-statement-from-microsoft-chairman-and-ceo-satya-nadella/

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI’s new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

News article covering the situation: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968829/microsoft-hires-sam-altman-greg-brockman-employees-openai

Altman’s Microsoft hiring comes just hours after negotiations with OpenAI’s board failed to bring him back as OpenAI CEO. Instead, former Twitch CEO and co-founder Emmett Shear has been named as interim CEO.

Altman had been negotiating to return as OpenAI CEO, but OpenAI’s four-person board refused to step down and let him return.

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[–] blahblahwhateveryeet@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (15 children)

So the issue is that nothing is going to come out of this.

Microsoft is essentially absorbing the impact.

OpenAI 100% still has the stage here.

Nobody's gonna stop using ChatGPT

Especially if Altman, with literally zero dev experience, manages to somehow replicate half of GPT's algorithms somehow, with his... what... 3 devs now?

Who the hell is going to go "Yay, now let's use this FOR PROFIT ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US KNOCKOFF SOFTWARE BING BONG"

[–] TheIdesOfMay@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Especially if Altman, with literally zero dev experience, manages to somehow replicate half of GPT's algorithms somehow, with his... what... 3 devs now?

much of AI research is back-of-a-napkin ideas tested on room-sized computers. I wouldn't discount those few engineers joining MSFT: they'll have at least a general knowledge of the best techniques, and now even more even more compute to test them on. Also, Sama is a talent magnet and I have no doubts they'll build a team on par with OpenAIs.

[–] mr_birkenblatt@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The model is already done. The challenge right now is to scale up operations and make it viable/profitable. ML engineers can't do that (their job is to build models not build infrastructure)

[–] Efficient_Way_3804@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean to say ML scientists cannot do that?

[–] mr_birkenblatt@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Lol, yes, thank you. Corrected

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