▲ 97 ▼ Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by cwagner@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments Well, this escalated quickly. So is this the end, or will the mods create an OpenAI megathread? ;)
[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Wow, the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish train is now down to 4 days. That’s impressive! permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cwagner@beehaw.org [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) Doesn’t really work when none of this was initiated by MS permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BarryZuckerkorn@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago Do we know that for sure? What if the triggering event was secret dealings between Altman and Nadella? I have no idea how likely that is, but the original messaging around Altman's firing seemed to leave open the possibility that this was about conflicts of interest. The messaging since seems to have contradicted that, though, so who knows. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago 'Twas a joke. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cwagner@beehaw.org [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) Doesn’t really work when none of this was initiated by MS permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BarryZuckerkorn@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago Do we know that for sure? What if the triggering event was secret dealings between Altman and Nadella? I have no idea how likely that is, but the original messaging around Altman's firing seemed to leave open the possibility that this was about conflicts of interest. The messaging since seems to have contradicted that, though, so who knows. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago 'Twas a joke. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BarryZuckerkorn@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago Do we know that for sure? What if the triggering event was secret dealings between Altman and Nadella? I have no idea how likely that is, but the original messaging around Altman's firing seemed to leave open the possibility that this was about conflicts of interest. The messaging since seems to have contradicted that, though, so who knows. permalink fedilink source parent