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3 senior OpenAI researchers resign in the wake of Sam Altman’s shock dismissal as CEO, report says::Jakub Pachocki, Aleksander Madry, and Szymon Sidor told associates at OpenAI that they had quit, The Information reported.
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that sort of makes sense. if you have an industry where everyone’s trained to kind of be this soulless money grubbing capitalist, it makes all the sense in the world to stay on good terms if things go under, and to mercilessly go around being all tribal and shit as soon as you smell a whiff of gains.
We’re you the guy that remained steady? Or why did he tell you that?
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This is pretty wild. Considering the ethical implications of AI as an aside, what this does is effectively shatter the silo OpenAI had around their product. These are the core people who brought the vision into life. They built the road maps and can fully replicate the programs that developed what has become the most transformative AI tool the world has yet seen.
Open AI has had a real moat around their tools. Simply, they are far superior to anything anyone else could even dream of competitively offering. Its real AI and it really works (ymmv). Keeping this team on the team keeps them from building competitive AI products elsewhere.
Its a great thing that this happened. It breaks the moat. I can guarantee that every significant executive on that team is getting flooded with offers to build competitive products elsewhere.
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They’re based in California though, where noncompetes are un-enforceable from what I understand
Yea, I think if they were offered severance as part of dismissal/layoff and it had a non compete they could lose that. Beyond that, it doesn’t hold much water in CA for the employees.
Any competitor worth their salt will match and exceed that as a signing bonus.
Even if they weren’t based in California any employee living and working from California would largely be protected
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“I can understand why you chose this word, but I disagree with this. This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits all of humanity,” Sutskever said.
One can hope
Only as long as it’s not that dumbass effective altruism “benefits of all humanity” wherein tech idiots think they are the messianic few of the human race.
Based if true
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I posted up some more detail from a purported insider on [email protected]. It seems like Ilya Sutskever and others on the engineering side who led the efforts to get him out.
Interesting, I’m gonna guess they’ll get together to start a new startup?
With blackjack and hookers!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Three senior researchers have quit from artificial intelligence firm OpenAI following the dismissal of its CEO Sam Altman, The Information reported, citing multiple people familiar with the situation.
In a statement announcing the decision, OpenAI said it no longer had “confidence” in Altman’s ability to lead the company, adding that he was “not consistently candid in his communications.”
Brockman said in a post on X that he was “super proud of what we’ve all built together since starting in my apartment 8 years ago … but based on today’s news, I quit.”
Brockman later shared a brief timeline of events on X, outlining how Altman’s dismissal had played out and the role of Ilya Sutskever, one of the company’s cofounders and its chief scientist.
This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits all of humanity," Sutskever said.
Under Altman’s tenure, OpenAI launched the pioneering AI chatbot ChatGPT and secured $10 billion in investment from Microsoft.
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He’s distancing his reputation before the collapse.
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how does he want to destroy society?
It’s human nature. People need to be tribalistic about something. For regular people it’s religion and/or sports team. But for tech dudebros it’s Your Distro and/or some Tech Evangelist.
