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.
I was once employed by a startup that was about to go under, but got a last minute acquisition offer. The CEO pulled me aside at one point and made an observation I’ve never forgotten.
He said “You know, when it looked like the company was going to be a total loss, everyone was really great about it. The VCs told me not to be discouraged, that we’d given it our all. No bitterness or blaming at all. But once the buyout offer was on the table, everyone’s knives came out. Everyone wanted to take the money from everyone else, and get away with as much as they could even if it meant shafting literally everyone else. You’d think people would be at their worst in a time of deprivation but it’s when there’s something to be had that people really show their worst.”
OpenAI is a golden goose right now. I’m not surprised if there’s a lot of knifing happening in its vicinity.
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.
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.
“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.
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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.
