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Hey if Sam Altman is really one of the good ones, now is his chance to create an open-sourced version that rivals ChatGPT and really change the world for the better.

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CEO Nadella "furious"

Not shit, they pony up 10B then bet the future of Microsoft on that "everything is Copilot now" (base on OpenAI) strategy and announced it to the world and boom, get the rug immediately pulled under them. They basically got catfished.

This is what went down: Military came and said "We want an AI for war",
Altman said "Oh hell naw",
board said "But that's billions of dollars directly into our personal bank accounts you said no to, get out!'

What do people think super-AI is going to do? All it can do is print letters on the screen. Flip a switch, it's gone. It can't actually DO anything; it has no body, no thumbs. The smartest AI conceivable can't do a thing if I take a hammer to it.

What are people scared of???

How can it be a "coup" when the board is allowed to hire and fire the CEO?

I find it somewhat interesting that Sutskever literally seems to have quite the big brain, judging by his head. Is that weird?

Seems to me that Ilya Sutskever must be some kind of nut job idealist / egoist. I'm tempted to say you can take the data scientist out of Russia, but you can't take the Russian out of the data scientist. This plays like a Soviet era coup -- sudden, poorly thought out, meat fisted, and unlikely to make anything better.

Altman and Brockman are probably going to start their own company, (funded by Microsoft?), poach all of Open AI's good people, and Open AI is going to go the way of the dodo... or maybe Ilya will have enough money to keep a little clown car / research lab company running or something, but nothing of any consequence is ever going to come out of Open AI ever again. I'd bet a paycheck on it.

The documented sequence of events makes the board (and Ilya in particular) look colossally stupid. Never ceases to amaze me how some very smart people can be so completely clueless from an interpersonal dynamics perspective. Zero EQ. If they were unhappy with Altman there was a right way to handle this, and a million wrong ways. It seems like they asked ChatGPT to give them the absolute worst possible wrong way, and then asked it to write the blog post announcing it.

“Ego is the enemy of growth.”

What alternate timeline is that clown living in, lol…?

What an epic world class mess by an ambitious board member and a few suckers to pull of a board coup.. these types of events in an org, along with M&A are massively disruptive.. it takes years and scale as an org to tackle these types of events with process and discipline .. this has amateur hour written all over it. They need a real board that works for all of it’s stakeholders and constituents, not primarily for themselves.

Seems like Microsoft’s Satya is furious, and who can blame him? They invested so much in OpenAI and then the board does this sneaky change, regardless of the reasons, is shocking they didn’t communicate with Microsoft… If this article is accurate I bet they will have a much harder time securing funding, no one wants to invest in turmoil and uncertainty.

Now would be a good time for a disgruntled employee to leak some models and make OpenAI actually open. ;)

Wow, Greg giving the breakdown of what happened was nice. Very sudden even internally.

I thought this might have been brewing over a week or so and it seems like it was, since Dev Day.

My guess is the powers that be wanted a yes-man in charge, and Sam wasn't going to just agree, so he needed to go so they could get someone they can control in.

He spoke at the Cambridge Union to receive the Hawking Fellowship on 1st of November, from the talk the allegations sound like a lot of BS, it's a shame I can't short their stock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjpNG0CJRMM

And AI futurist Daniel Jeffries said, "The entire AI industry would like to thank the OpenAI board for giving us all a chance to catch up."

DAMN SON. That burns!

Allegedly SA was canned because he wanted to move too fast and security team was not happy.

Because it is important to have AGI that will let elites take over the world even more than now, but that AGI should not tell jokes about gingers because it is not inclusive.

He should get back at them by making an open source model similar to GPT-4.

It'd be super disappointing if somehow the models for gpt 3.5 or 4 got leaked because of this non sense. Like, it would be terrible.

I’d like to think that this will refocus OpenAI towards fundamental research that will deliver the ASI rather than efforts to commercialise fragments.