official announcement here: https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
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announcement's title "openai announces leadership transition" is at the top, with surprised pikachu face at bottom. on top of pikachu, text reads, "not even Sam could prevent losing his job to AI."
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For what its worth, it seems like the board is claiming that Altman's constant wheeling and dealing of the technology, including giving Microsoft a minority stake in the LLC, rubbed them the wrong way, and they felt that his increasingly transparent desire for profits was antithetical to the original purpose of the OpenAI Non-Profit, which was to safeguard AGI, not to market and sell it.
Honestly, I felt that way too, so I'm on the boards side with this one. It felt pretty clear that Altman had tossed out the "beneficial for humanity" goal in favor of "beneficial to me and my wallet."
Here's to hoping for an actually open OpenAI in the future.
I highly doubt that'd happen.
Why?
At its current level of capability, an unaligned GPT-4/5 could cause harm to humanity
Current open models are closing in on GPT-4. The real magic is in models fine-tuned in a specific field, not generalist models.
There's still a board full of capitalist investors; that day will never come
does it have to do with the name? first Sam Bankman-Fried, and now him lol. seeing his interviews makes me think he's more of a wannabe cult-head guy, just like most of silicon-valley bros.
PS: seen his worldcoin thing? it's whole another level of privacy nightmare.
Yeah, that's a good way of looking at this.... I didn't understand the Microsoft move at all. Why would an "open" non profit want to build business relationships with tech monoliths. It seemed antithetical, but I honestly had assumed that was more of a board/share holder decision... Sounds like that probably wasn't the case.
I thought the board was on board too... But it came when Musk pulled promised funding on the run up to gpt4. It was a shit bird move, but it seemed like it was just picking the best of bad options to keep the lights on in a critical time
I mean, no arguing that he sold their souls to Microsoft though... They've made openai products part of every service they run, and seem to have nudged their trajectory significantly
How did you make these conclusions about reasoning for firing him from the statement the board gave?
If you’re gonna replace a worker with an AI, replacing the CEO gives you the most return on investment.