OpenAI’s announcement late Friday that the company was firing Altman and replacing him on an interim basis with technology chief Mira Murati sent shockwaves across Silicon Valley.
    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 years ago

      How embarrassing must it be for both sides if no one is willing to go public?
      If it were something illegal, they wouldn’t be holding back. Unless the board is somehow complicit by default.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksBannedEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        Yeah when I heard this, and after I read the available information, I was like did they walk in on him f****** a dog in his office or something? Like the secrecy around his dismissal is so total. But then all these people he has so much support within the company. Very confusing

      • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        The boards job is to deliver shareholder value. Ergo, it may or may not be something illegal, all ypu can guarantee is that they think that revealing information might lose shareholder value.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukBannedEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          They don’t have shareholders. Open AI is a nonprofit. So the job of the board is literally to do what is best for the organization, I can’t see how it could possibly be good for the organisation to fire the CEO and then point right refused to elaborators to the reason.

    • 31337@sh.itjust.worksBannedEnglish
      17·
      2 years ago

      Official statement is that Altman was not being “candid” with the board. The current best theory I’ve seen is that Altman is investing in AI hardware startups (he is, in fact) and likely planning on having OpenAI doing business with them. buying them, or merging with them in the future.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksBannedEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Oh, good read. I saw that “candid” comment as well, but didn’t think of a possible connection. That makes sense. Thanks

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukBannedEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          If OpenAI actually achieves their stated goal then any amount of money he demands will be worth it. They will basically be the company that controls the world, they will have so much money that they won’t actually even care how much money they have.

          • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksBannedEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’m not aware of that stated goal, what goal are you talking about? I haven’t been following AI news or this company

            • Echo Dot@feddit.ukBannedEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Their goal is to bring about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Basically sci-fi level AI that is genuinely capable of independent thought with superhuman processing speeds.

              Something on the order of 10,000 years worth of effective personal time for every 24 hours of real time.

              Think about what an entity capable of experiencing 10,000 years worth of time every 24 hours would be capable of after just 15 minutes. We would just hand over every single human job to the AI and then I don’t know go have fun for the rest of time. Theoretically every problem that comes about could be resolved by the AI.

              Cure for every disease, every logistics problem resolved, every possible technology invented instantly.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukBannedEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      The board really needs to explain to the investors why he was fired, It is utterly ridiculous that they don’t know.

      He may very well have been fired for a reasonable reason, but I’m not seeing it because why would you just fire someone out of the blue and then not release a statement if you’ve got reasonable cause? The only reason to act like they’ve got something to hide is because they do have something to hide.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksBannedEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        If they had just fired him secretly it wouldn’t be so weird, but such open support from his co-workers and co-managers of the company and even other people resigning because of his firing are what is making me interested in the issue.

    • droopy4096@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Ars posted that there’s some evidence to suggest board wanted to chase profit over ethics or somesuch. Altman apparently did not listen.

      • 5C5C5C@programming.devEnglish
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        2 years ago

        You have that totally backwards.

        The board (which is the board of the non-profit) wanted the company to be more focused on its mission and less profit-driven. Altman is the one that’s been letting Microsoft get its tendrils around OpenAI and push a narrative that everything must be closed off and profit focused.

      • there1snospoon@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I thought it was the reverse, and Altman wanted to push forward recklessly while the board wanted to hew closer to ethical guidelines?

  • AtmaJnana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    Where is the technology in this community? Its all just industry gossip and rage-bait articles.

    ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

      • AtmaJnana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Always amusing when someone feels the need to insult me because they don’t like my opinion. Since reading comprehension isn’t your strength, apparently, allow me to explicate:

        I wasn’t saying it broke a rule (and for that reason, I didn’t report it.) I was, rather, implying it’s a dumb rule and this community is basically nothing but gossip and rage-bait. And that’s fine, but I wish it didn’t sit on the c/Technology community but instead was called c/technews or something, so that the c/Technology could be about… technology. But fuck me for having preferences, I guess.

  • editediting@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    A plague on all their houses. AI should benefit the people, not corporations or the effective altruism cult.