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Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post.

EDITED TO ADD direct link to OpenAI board announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

Chief technology officer Mira Murati will be the interim CEO, effective immediately.

When contacted by The Verge, OpenAI’s communications department declined to comment beyond the blog post.

This is an extremely sudden turn of events as Altman has largely been the face of OpenAI, which arguably kickstarted the current AI arms race with last year’s hugely popular ChatGPT.

Altman is a co-founder of OpenAI and initially served as a co-chair of the company alongside Elon Musk.

Musk left in 2018 to avoid a conflict of interest with Tesla — he has since founded his own AI company, xAI.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This post is unnerving

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How so?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The bot is using AI and arguably the technology of OpenAI to report on the news that a human has lost their job but has no context on what it is reporting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Autotldr bot is not using any "AI" for summarizing, just "simple" NLP :)

https://github.com/miso-belica/sumy

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Won't that still be AI just a subset of it? But I guess you mean OpenAI gpt-3/ 4 here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Please keep in mind that I am not an expert when it comes to AI/machine learning/Natural Language Processing and have just dabbled in those a few years ago. Also, many of these terms can be confusing because of all the marketing around them.

But, in short, what I meant was that autotldr is not based on a neural network/deep learning, but "basic" language processing algorithms with simpler statistical models attached to them, if at all.

What people generally mean with AI is some kind of deep learning which is helpful for more complicated tasks like "learning" about a topic and "understanding" things, but that is not really necessary for summarizing text since language has (mostly) fixed rules. So while there is certainly some overlap in the process, simple language processing does not need "AI" - you'd call it just machine learning, of which AI is generally a subset.

You can read a little more about the sunmarization above here:

https://miso-belica.github.io/sumy/summarizators.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I see your point. Not sure I can do anything about it, but yeah. It's kind of like an almost unnoticeable line in the sand has been crossed.

Thank you for taking the time to explain what you meant, I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

You sound very GPTy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably because he went on his hype campaign trying to ask for regulations, except not ones that actually harm his company, and then the fear mongering.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

this can't be good. even under the actual founding dude, GPT seemed to get knocked on the head every few months in quality. letting The Board exercise their precious estimable authority means pig-headed austerity and cost cutting 100% of the time. it was a hell of a technology.

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[+] [email protected] -11 points 11 months ago (5 children)

That sucks, and weirdly sudden too. I don't like OpenAI but I do like Altman. I saw a lot of the videos he makes and he strikes me as someone that knows what he's doing and, despite running it as a business, genuinely cares.

It's so alarming that he would get suddenly fired when the company is doing so well. Nobody knows what's going on but I don't doubt a "company board demands more profit" situation

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