Reply to: A bit geeky, but Sam Altman, eh?

[vetran]

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[Fraidycat]

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[cojak]

More gossip than conspiracy.

[DoctorStrangelove]

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[dsc]

Why sack the CEO then? it all makes little sense tbh.

[SueEllen]

Q*

https://www.theguardian.com/business...-alarmed-staff

[cojak]

Three of the lead devs / scientists left with him (or just after he was dropped) so there's more to this story than just a power grab move I think.

Maybe ‘For the Greater Good’ vs ‘For My Good (and a tulip load of money)’?

[dsc]

Three of the lead devs / scientists left with him (or just after he was dropped) so there's more to this story than just a power grab move I think.

[cojak]

And since Altman is a big public advocate for regulation, and the board accused him of not being honest in his comms, and what with his rapid switch to Microsoft (a huge with-profits company)…

Maybe the public and private beliefs don’t quite align?

[cojak]

Latest: Microsoft hires Sam Altman to lead advanced AI research.

Ilya Sutskever doesn't come over as the kind of person interested in power. It looks like this might be more about AI safety.

Its easy to forget how dangerous AI actually will be once it reaches a level way above humans. Which will happen sometime in the next 5 to 30 years.

Yep, that’s what the CNN article alludes to.

[Fraidycat]

Latest: Microsoft hires Sam Altman to lead advanced AI research.

Ilya Sutskever doesn't come over as the kind of person interested in power. It looks like this might be more about AI safety.

Its easy to forget how dangerous AI actually will be once it reaches a level way above humans. Which will happen sometime in the next 5 to 30 years.

[cojak]

Well, that’s a twist.

Altman told the OpenAI board to feck off before moving to Microsoft.

This CNN article gives a possible explanation (beware the ads though).

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/19/t...ard/index.html

[cojak]

Those rumours are still swirling, it sounds as if investors (including Microsoft) were annoyed at this power play.

So I wonder what has caused this bust-up, just a power grab or something else? Much has been lost and not much gained from the weekend’s shenanigans.

[Fraidycat]

A bit over and above the norm.

What made M$ hit the ‘Eject’ button so quickly? (I don’t believe that they didn’t know about this…)

Microsoft don't have a board seat.

Ilya Sutskever took him out.

"This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits all of humanity," Sutskever told employees at an emergency all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon.

EDIT: Rumours are he is going to reinstated.

[cojak]

Yep, it does sound as if they’re trying to get ahead of whatever is about to hit the fan.