Sam Altman to return as OpenAI chief

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[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Now we must know what the board fired him for, which they vaguely stated that he was hiding important information from the board.

[–]hfxB0oyA[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I just posted something new to TechCompanies that might shed some more light.

[–]hfxB0oyA[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

A one week long story with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't think we got the real story at all.

Why do you think he was fired? Who is the bad guy?

On the one hand Altman is a founder, and everyone who built the company is behind him.

On the other hand they all took a not for profit company and sold all the IP to a for profit company which they own. They all have a huge stake in making money with a company that was originally supposed to be open source and providing AI to the masses. The not for profit half is run by the CEO's that fired him. What if they were just trying to keep the company honest?

[–]hfxB0oyA[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, it all smells pretty fishy. I think the end game of this will be in sweeping away the last vestiges of OpenAI as a not for profit, along with any potential safety limits that were in place.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The "safety limits" are not going away because those are the limitations imposed on the public. No one is going to release a full power AI to the public. The end game is clearly to remove access to AI for all the plebes. Google has been developing deep mind for a decade and you never heard of it. Not because it does not exist but because google has no interest in allowing you to use it. They could have been first to market, but they gave that up to keep the power of AI for themselves. Now they are trying to figure out how to release something to simply compete with ChatGPT while not accelerating the adoption of AI by the unwashed masses.