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OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO - get me off this ride it's too dumb

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Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

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Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and former board chairman, resigned, and the two have been talking to friends about starting another company. A string of senior researchers also resigned on Friday, and people close to OpenAI say more departures are in the works.
wow what a clusterfuck
- wow what a clusterfuck
  no, that would be the polycule https://twitter.com/HRTFRG/status/1725681262919377030
  
  Fuck twitter. Post a screenshot of the tweet, please, or do the next best thing and don’t refer to it at all.
- it couldn’t have happened to a nicer fraudulent nonprofit
thinking Microsoft called and said "aight time for the grownups to have a little word"
edit: yep
- I’m hoping for a protracted fight between the AI cultists and the technofascists while the world watches on and realizes the whole thing was a circus act the entire time
  
  yeah, there's some good potential
  the first time around openai got to mass-scrape in peace because people didn't really have an eye on how they were doing it. if you want to quickly make another company and restart, you need whole new datasets and whole new implementations (and possibly algos too - otherwise if it's too GPT-y they could probably get sued)
  I hope they continue at pace!
- I mean, if they fired him, too bad
OpenAI’s current board consists of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, former GeoSim Systems CEO Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner, the director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Unlike traditional companies, the board isn’t tasked with maximizing shareholder value, and none of them hold equity in OpenAI.
We're not like, your traditional company. We do small plates.
Instead, their stated mission is to ensure the creation of “broadly beneficial” artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
Thought they were trying to melt the ice caps tbh.
- Isn't this just how every tech company starts out? Google just want to help you find things on the web. Facebook just wants you to help connect with friends. We are very serious people doing serious work for humanity and you need to listen to us, and possibly give us things for free. It's all about positioning.
  
  Oh for sure. Another way to think about that is: they actually are honestly and genuinely trying to help humanity with their inventions and so forth, except for them “humanity” is just the wallet of whoever is bankrolling them.
Do they want him re-instated in the polycule, too? Will it be like that scene in Diamond Age?
the real misaligned AI already exists and starts with a C
what a shitshow. "he was lying but we want him back." https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-optimistic-it-can-bring-back-sam-altman-greg-brockman
- can anyone give me a pdf or pastebin or something of this? I'm not a fuck gonna pay those sub rates just to see this
so it seems all those people with millions in options and stock to lose were going full metal harassment to try save their baby: https://nitter.net/jacquesthibs/status/1727134087176204410
cool
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- double whammy: https://nitter.net/alexhanna/status/1727213526631247936
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
One of them said Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board on Friday, is “ambivalent” about coming back and would want significant governance changes.
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