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Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by cwagner@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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See also twitter:

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

Seems like the person running the simulation had enough and loaded the earlier quicksave.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So all of that palava just so they could change the board and mission?

[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any additional info about the changes they're making to the mission? I didn't see that in the article

[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There's been no talk of anything changing. Just different people in charge of deciding how to get to the goal which is to create safe state of the art AI tech that will benefit all of humanity.

It could take centuries to get there and cost trillions of dollars, figuring out how to raise that money is where things get controversial.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Whether OpenAI will be able to resist all the meddling from politics and greedy businesses till they satisfy those goals is also a huge question.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No need. Politics, businesses, war planners, don't need OpenAI, they can build (have been building) their own AIs to follow their own goals. Now that OpenAI has shown how far one can get, the genie is out of the bottle. In a sense, OpenAI has already failed its goal.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Actually, everybody is trying and failing to reach the quality of ChatGPT so far because OpenAI doesn't release the details. Add to that websites like Reddit and Xwitter, the source of the training data for AIs, have started charging money for that. The governments are also starting to obstruct AI advancement.