Hot off the press; Sam is going back to OpenAI. A new board has been appointed. It seems like Sam got what he wanted.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, 7:22 am Pieter Steenekamp, <piet...@randcontrols.co.za> wrote: > Background > OpenAI is actually two companies. The original not for profit parent > company and the for profit subsidiary. > The parent, not for profit, appoints the board of the for profit > subsidiary and does not have a fudiciary obligation towards the financial > well-being of the company, only towards humanity; to ensure that AI is > developed for the good of humanity. > On Friday the board fired the CEO, Sam Altman, without giving reasons. > Since then Sam got an offer from Microsoft to join them and start a new AI > Microsoft subsidiary. Sam is reluctant to take it, he seems to think that > will kill OpenAi. > 95 percent of OpenAI employees signed a letter that if Sam goes to > Microsoft they will join him. Microsoft said they will accomdate them. > Now we are waiting - will OpenAI take Sam back? Will Sam and 95 percent of > OpenAI's employees join MS? > Or is there something else going to happen? > A Netflix movie couldn't have more drama and suspens. > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, 2:14 am Marcus Daniels, <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > >> >> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/openai-ilya-sutskever-sam-altman-fired/676072/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share >> >> >> >> *From: *Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Marcus Daniels < >> mar...@snoutfarm.com> >> *Date: *Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 4:00 PM >> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >> friam@redfish.com> >> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Open AI >> >> Rumors I have read: >> >> 1) Sam Altman was looking for money from sovereign wealth fund from Saudi >> Arabia to fund an NVIDIA competitor. And this was one example of him >> working side gigs not related to the Open AI mission. >> >> >> >> 2) That the energy demands of LLMs on Azure are just too expensive, and >> the money lost per query is becoming too expensive, even for Microsoft’s >> hosting of OpenAI. >> >> >> >> 3) That there was a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence and >> Sam Altman wouldn’t press the brakes. >> >> >> >> *From: *Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Pietro Terna < >> pietro.te...@unito.it> >> *Date: *Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 2:29 PM >> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >> friam@redfish.com> >> *Subject: *[FRIAM] Open AI >> >> Dear All, >> >> can you explain to an old Italian friend the Open AI soap opera or >> drama? >> >> Best, Pietro >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> "It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep >> truth." Neils Bohr. >> >> >> >> A https://terna.to.it/breviArticoli.html riporto dei miei brevi articoli su >> temi di attualità. >> >> Asterischi da Verso Itaca a https://verso-itaca.it/asterischi-da-verso-itaca/ >> >> >> >> Home page: https://terna.to.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/@pietroterna >> >> Mastodon: https://mastodon.uno/@PietroTerna >> >> >> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> >
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