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OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board (ground.news)

submitted 11 months ago by jayandp@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 60 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I had never even heard of this guy until like 4 days ago. Now I have to wonder if he can turn water into wine and raise the dead because everyone’s losing their shit over him.

[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For fucking real. It's like he's God himself, because everyone want him, nevermind the consequences.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have to believe it's mostly hype. The man was at the helm when OpenAI suddenly "changed the world" with "AI" (note the quotes) but that seems to be almost entirely a case of luck.

Like, generative AI models aren't really brand new. OpenAI just made them really accessible and easy to use for other applications, which is where Altman comes in. He had an ounce of foresight to see the tech was "the future" and a whole lot of luck executing on his plan to bring it to market.

As a figurehead and leader, that does count for a lot, but not the table-flipping freak outs we see happening.

[–] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

There are a lot of LLMs. None hold a candle to OpenAI's models still.

This will change in time, but right now OpenAI is still in front

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I think its mostly popcorn at this point. The general opinion as I've noticed is that OpenAI is severely failing at living up to what it promised. Nobody particularly gives a shit about the board or Altman except some folks that seem fixated about the honestly unhinged postings of his sister.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Any links to the sister's posts?

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Someone will come along with them and call me names for dismissing them, but I don't really want to get into it.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

That's fair. I'll search a bit. Thanks!

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t even know anything was going on with his sister, either. The plot thickens.

[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

She's accused him of sexual assault. Several years ago apparently. He has generally ignored it or said she's off her meds.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Really? Why do people think that? All this news made me try it out yesterday and it completely blew my mind.

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

It's degraded from what it was, and even that model had reached a ceiling as to what it could do.