• mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That hasn’t been confirmed at all. No one from the board has commented even anonymously as far as I’ve seen. This is a play by Altman and his supporters to try and influence public opinion and make the board seem incompetent.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe. Allegedly MS is throwing their weight around to try to force it, which does seem plausible.

      Though I hope the board stands firm.

      Ilya is much more valuable long term to the company than Altman, and frankly the latter leaving is the first time in about a year I’ve been bullish about OpenAI’s prospects.

      They really walked their core product back in the past few months despite expanding their productization of it towards low hanging short-term fruit.

      Ilya’s vision is spot on with where transformers are headed as complexity increases, and is one of the only scientists I’ve seen that really sees that horizon.

      If Altman was standing in the way of getting there, it’s better that he’s gone.

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        1 year ago

        Ilya had seemed to be more of the closed corporate yes man, more interested in profit paths than open ethical development, as evidenced by his various appearances when unfiltereed questions have been allowed. That’s not an improvement over Altman.

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      Maybe, but then it’s a genius move, and he can still laugh at them.

      All the world was quite busy with learning the name ‘OpenAI’ during the last months. But OpenAI is history.

      The world is learning the name ‘Sam Altman’ now.

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        1 year ago

        SMH do we really have to do this god-emperor thing with every single dude who gets a little bit of fame in the business world

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          1 year ago

          do we really have to do this

          I do not say we should, or we shouldn’t.

          But it’s obvious that it happens, and soon he’s going to secure his next few billions from it.

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        1 year ago

        This made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

        Didn’t you fan boys learn after Elon? Altman is not something I’d recommend idolizing. From his crypto BS, to his preper stuff (saying he will survive in the apocalypse… sure), to the stuff his sister is saying he did to her, to his general doucheyness, to his attempts at regulatory capture…

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        1 year ago

        Curious why the down votes? I think it’s fair to say this news has been pretty remarkable and has even made it on the news stations. I think a lot of people are probably learning his name right now and makes him seem ‘valuable’ if the board asks him to come back.