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OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 29 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Man what a clusterfuck. Things still don't really add up based on public info. I'm sure this will be the end of any real attempts at safeguards, but with the board acting the way it did, I don't know that there would've been even without him returning. You know the board fucked up hard when some SV tech bro looks like the good guy.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I mean, the non-profit board appears, at current glance, to have fired the CEO for their paranoid-delusional beliefs, that this LLM is somehow a real AGI and we are already at a point of a thinking, learning, AI.

    Just delusional grandeur on behalf of the board, or they didn't and don't understand what is really going on, which might be why they fired the CEO: for not informing the board, truly, what level OpenAI's AI is actually at. So the board was trying to reign in a beast that is merely a puppy, with information that was wrong.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where are you getting this information?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    As I used the word "appears", I am postulating based on how the company is controlled, the non-profit entity, as well as certain statements that board members have made in the past such as Ilya Sutskever (now ex-board??), whose thoughts have likely been influenced by his mentor Geoffrey Hinton who is quoted on 60 Minutes saying the AI is about to be "more intelligent than us". Ilya is known for, beyond his scientific endeavors into AI and his position of Chief Scientist of OpenAI, some odd behavior on his commitment to AI safety though I'm sure his beliefs come from the right place.

    There's a lot more to this, for each board member and Sam, but it makes me believe that a large wall was erected in information leading to a paranoid board.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Really? I thought it was because he supposedly raped his younger sister.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Could be, but words on Twitter and no lawsuit don't really equal getting ejected from your CEO position. Imagine if CEOs got ejected for stuff akin to that, there'd be no CEOs left.

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