OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

That's wild. Given the abruptness and his profile, I was thinking it must be an improper conduct investigation. But either way, I hope we get more details.

Lol The finally realized that Altman brings more bad press because of his association with crypto and his weird views on things.

I doubt the successor can be a good person but hopefully a less creepy one.

Damn, time for wild thoughts as to why. I wonder who the bad guy is here. Did Sam want to focus on profit? Does the board and they're hiding behind that? I have no idea.

Still this is a scene right from Silicon Valley, the founder being voted out of their own company

I think it’s more likely that Sam did not want to focus on profit as much as some investors. I presume Microsoft has seats on the board ( I haven’t checked)
Edit - I seem to be wrong: OpenAI’s board of directors consists of OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, independent directors Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner." Sam Altman and Greg Brockman(President and Co-founder) both left the board today
- Their board is independent and as such do not have equity in the company - Microsoft is not part of this. It’s a very different dynamic.
  Based on the language, if I HAD to guess, I’d say he straight up lied to the board or acted on something without them when they were supposed to be involved. Serious charter-violating stuff.

They found out he raped his 4 year old sister and kept doing it well into her teens?

You got a source there for that, buddy?
- Not claiming it's true because I literally heard of this five minutes ago, but go fill your boots. The source is his sister.
  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman-s-sister-annie-altman-claims-sam-has-severely
Huh?
Maybe don’t sling mud like you are Fox News, even if you are a fan.
To be fair, the allegations haven't been proven and allegedly he was 13 at the time... not that it makes it any better, but context matters

They make it sound like all the for profit stuff was Sam Altman and they just wanna make cool tech.

OpenAI’s original mission was extremely serious: to ensure the wide proliferation of AI to ensure a multipolar ecosystem instead of a monopolar one, to force AI to learn to play nice via parity with other AIs.
I was amazed that an organization existed which recognized this hard to swallow but ultra important fact.
The fiduciary duty of the board was not profit. They’re required by charter to make sure the company advances ai safely. 4 of the board members have no investment in the company at all.

now he can fully focus on the magic eyeball money

He’s sneaking out with the AGI in his pocket and gonna become a supervillain.

Crazy, the news almost took hackernews down when it broke. MS also was taken by surprise, and today 3 lead researchers resigned. Currently only speculation and no one really knows what’s going on.

They found out that AI is a lame fad that will go the way of crypto?

Except that's definitely not the case, since unlike crypto shit, the latest wave of AI tech is already useful and found lots of applications. It may never reach AGI level, but that doesn't mean it's not immensely useful.
- Yeah I guess, I just see a mishmash of consumed data presented where you have to tweak parameters and so forth. Some gobbledygook nonsense presented as facts, three arms and six fingers in generated art, etc. just seems like shit to me
Bitcoin has gone from $0.03 to $0.03 Million in slightly over 10 years. If that's the "lame fad" expectation for AI... get ready to pledge allegiance to our AI overlords.

lol, lmao.

I'm gonna guess this was a security compromise that he failed to disclose to the board, and failed to report to the SEC.

It makes the most sense given the board's statement that his "repeated lack of candor" prevented the board from executing on its duties.

As a happy subscriber, the last thing I want is the influence from the board.

Monopoly established, the max profit phase about to start...

The board is not technically profit motivated. Because of the fact that microsoft is screaming at the board and threatening to gake away their servers if Sam is not reinstated, I think that he was the one driving profits and lied to the board.
- Makes sense.

I'd say good riddance but the replacement is worse

Why are they worse?
- Big AI regulation fan.

This one really surprised me.

I mean I get it, but you can Google for answers as well.. check stack overflow, etc, get answers from true industry masters. at the end of the day it seems like there's not much added value.. especially if you have to vet the answers for reliability.

I disagree. It compiles answers in a nice easy place with no ads. Change an int to a string using c# and 9 times out of 10 I'm in and out. I can feed it my code and it corrects it. Is it perfect? Nope but it beats being berated by experts