Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.
We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
Seems like the person running the simulation had enough and loaded the earlier quicksave.
What a roller coaster of I don't give a shit.
I was really hooked. But part of me believes they are the closest thing to AGI we have right now. Also, I use chatgpt premium a ton and would hate to see it die.
I've heard so much conflicting shit over this event that I have no idea what to believe
Ironically, your comment about summarizes ChatGPT.
Does it really matter? It's the usual corporate intrigues/power struggle/backstabbing/whatever. Just for some reason leaked into public view instead of being behind the scenes like it's normally done, probably because someone is stupid.
These article titles need different headlines and they need to date them. We've seen this same headline 3 or 4 times now within the last week and yet nobody knows which point is what unless we cross-reference the dates in the articles. Which coincidentally are always in ^^small text hidden by the title^^ and could simply be solved by having a date in the title.
That could apply to almost anything in the news nowadays.
The complete victory of money.
Eh, not sure I agree. Seems to also have been between too little and too much AI safety, and I strongly feel like there’s already too much AI safety.
This article does not make clear whether or not the new board will remain committed to its non-profit position.
I presume that’s what this whole sordid affair is all about, but no one is saying it.
I think most people don't realize how unusual their company structure is. It feels like it's set up to let them do exactly that. As far as I can tell, once you look past the smoke and mirrors, the board effectively controls both the non-profit and the for-profit.
I think the outcome of the last few days is that the nonprofit board controls nothing and serves at the pleasure of the for-profit company's investors.
At this point, investors be like oh shit, these fuckers have no idea what they're doing
It's a non-profit. There are no investors.
Microsoft gave them some money in return for IP rights... and they will potentially one day get their money back (and more) if OpenAI is ever able to pay them, but they're not real investors. The amount of money Microsoft might get back is limited.
So all of that palava just so they could change the board and mission?
Do you have any additional info about the changes they're making to the mission? I didn't see that in the article
There's been no talk of anything changing. Just different people in charge of deciding how to get to the goal which is to create safe state of the art AI tech that will benefit all of humanity.
It could take centuries to get there and cost trillions of dollars, figuring out how to raise that money is where things get controversial.
I wouldn't be surprised if the board is just doing what ChatGPT tells them to.
Game of Microsoft.
This whole stunt reminds me of a certain former OpenAI board member...
Welcome to the Silicon Valley clown college.
Wasn't it that Microsoft hired him already???
I believe they did but were of the understanding he’d go back to OpenAI if the board changed their mind (like what happened). It was basically his golden parachute.
So what, can't he be a CEO hired by Microsoft?... I dunno, this looks like some 5D chess.
Sure, that's possible.
But Microsoft never actually signed an employment contract with Sam and it doesn't look like they ever will. Just because someone says they plan to do something doesn't mean it will happen.
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Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent the company into chaos over the past several days.
The company said in a statement late Tuesday that it has an “agreement in principle” for Altman to return alongside a new board composed of Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.
When asked what “in principle” means, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company had “no additional comments at this time.”
OpenAI’s nonprofit board seemed resolute in its initial decision to remove Altman, shuffling through two CEOs in three days to avoid reinstating him.
Meanwhile, the employees of OpenAI revolted, threatening to defect to Microsoft with Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman if the board didn’t resign.
During the whole saga, the board members who opposed Altman withheld an actual explanation for why they fired him, even under the threat of lawsuits from investors.
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Larry Summers.
AI is going from bad to worse
I mistook Larry Summers as Larry Elison (ex Oracle) previously and made a comment that it gone from bad to worse.
I'm retracting it, I don't know much about Larry Summers.
He's a democratic swamp creature. He's a Rubinite economist who's been slinking around Washington since the Clinton administration. He was also the president of Harvard for a while and got a cameo in The Social Network.
I guess I should have defined rubinite: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/09/summers-flop-end-of-the-rubinites.html
I was confused about that as his Wikipedia page didn’t show anything that bad, but didn’t want to get into that :D
Anyone know why they wouldn't say why they fired him? An explanation would have really cleared a lot up.
I don't think anyone knows. I'm assuming they didn't have a good reason and are embarrassed to admit that.