OpenAI announces leadership transition
openai.com
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company. Search process underway to identify permanent successor.

Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process [by the board]

“god, he’s really cost us… how much can we get back?”

which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board

not only with the board, kids

hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities

you and me both, brother

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    this is brutal. even CEOs fired for sexual harassment don’t get a firing this brutal. WTF did Sam do to rate this? other shoe is approaching from orbit

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Open AI costs an outrageous amount of money to run and although it’s not as empty as metaverse or web3, it was incredibly overhyped in its potiential, as usual.

      He probably thought like uber and other companies he could run cash negative for a while and play the game everybody plays. But debt is not cheap now, and he likely had to lie to investors to keep things alive. They probably all lost a chunk of money when you actually look at the books.

      Edit: more news came out that the chief scientist and the board organized a coup to get him out under the pretense he was going too fast.

      Open AI is a for profit company owned by a non-profit, which brings a huge conflict when it comes to scientific advancement versus product monetization. It may be that they were totally wrong in doing this legally speaking (the non-profit) but did the right thing for scientific advancement and the human race itself.

      We’ll know more soon I expect

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      my hand reaching for the SICKOS meme like a gunslinger reaching for a revolver during a showdown

  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    My guess is the board found out they aren’t allowed into his doomsday bunker and decided they couldn’t be fwiends anymore

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    orange site thread which is so popular dang has had to do his standard begging so folks go easy on paully g’s surely world class Lisp code running the site (fucking imagine running a programming site on a shit single-threaded server you can’t fix)

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      the thread is too gigantic to do pull quotes, but the number of poor delusional fucks who’ve decided this must be due to Altman’s business genius (somehow), the birth of an AGI that’s blackmailing the board, that this is just how executive boards normally act, or are just generally arguing that these severely out of touch rich folk must all be acting reasonably and legally in spite of all experience to the contrary is kind of astounding

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      You know

      I’ve load tested my fucking still-wordpress blog some years back, and even then I managed to get something like 1600~1700rps out of it without at all trying hard (read: “I think I changed the fpm pool at some point”)

      I am of course not surprised their software is the way it is (subversion commits are dangerous to a man of paulie g’s stature, of course), but it is hilariously recursively poignant: the very site where you may find a number of Weekend Code This-ers who - because of the mere trick of advancement in computing technology - may actually be right (for writing a new orange site)……just couldn’t

      Who said satire is dead?!

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      What? This can’t be real? My custom code I cooked last year for a webservice in python is able to run multiprocess by now. How do there people still have high-paying jobs and I am stuggling monthly? goddamn!

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I can’t imagine how bad Arc (the fucking ugly Lisp variant paully g wrote hacker news in) must be if it’s a Racket DSL that can’t use any of Racket’s many threading abstractions

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        How do there people still have high-paying jobs and I am struggling monthly?

        Because people get paid not for technical output but for popularity of the products they create (And if you don’t own the company then you don’t even get that). bla bla bla capitalism bla bla markets bla bla

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      What (from a heavily downvoted comment there):

      “Is Helen Toner CIA or just the kind of person who talks to Stare Department employees in secure locations several times a quarter? She has a degree in CIA from CIA university and works at an institute that is have in glove with USFEDGOV.”

      New conspiracy theory, the CIA forced Altman out.

      (Also the LW style site sucks so much for linking comments)

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    wow this is an awfully unhealthy signal for a supposedly extremely successful company to be broadcasting, though I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked that Altman is such a shithead that not even OpenAI can tolerate him for long

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    (okay I admit this is a bit of a lazy sneer but I saw it in passing and it wasn’t here yet, and being far past my spoon budget for the day I did a partial)