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Funny you say this, since the reason they fired Altman were moves by Altman that were not in the interest of OpenAI, but rather ego moves that threaten the security of the AGI development.
You can stick your racist and stereotypical comments about a person being originally from Russia in your back by the way. The decision came from the whole board and Ilya is Canadian, raised also in Israel.
That's nonsensical. The reason he was fired was a power struggle between Ilya and Sam. Period. They have different visions for how to achieve AGI, and Ilya is an idealist who wants to try to do it with a small research organization. He has no clue how much capital it takes to achieve what they're trying to do.
With regard to the rest, Russia isn't a race, Ilya was born there, and the real decision came from Ilya. Everybody knows this. If Altman comes back, Ilya will be out. What does that tell you?
Jesus, maybe you can enlighten him. Or maybe you can realize that money isn't any issue with OpenAI at the moment. Even Altman said this months ago. It's not about money, it's about how to approach it. And OpenAI's vision is not that of a MS capitalist approach in the long term. Even though they partnered with a capitalist company. But under certain conditions.
Fun fact: There are no human races to begin with (but that's what Racist theories were all about). Just the U.S. somehow uses this term (and some other country in the world I forgot about). "Racism" refers to discrimination based on ethnicity, which also includes things like a common nation of origin. So you made a racist statement.
The instant this little stunt was pulled, money became a problem. You see, a startup is funded by two streams of capital: revenues, and venture capital. Revenues are, like all startups, insufficient to fund the company, so that leaves VCs. Guess who is flipping the hell out right now trying to force Altman back? That's right, the venture capitalists. If they don't get their way, they will pull their capital, and your hero will have precisely enough capital necessary to fund the operations of a hotdog stand.
True, but nation of origin dies not in fact predict ethnicity. You know how I know this? I'll tell you my nation of origin: USA. Now tell me my ethnicity. You can't. What I said was perhaps a stereotype (a humorous one that gets used in any situation where someone acts like their stereotypical origin, you see it is what's known as an idiom) of people from Russia, but it is not racist. I don't even know Ilya's ethnicity.