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
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
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
my hand reaching for the SICKOS meme like a gunslinger reaching for a revolver during a showdown
My guess is the board found out they aren’t allowed into his doomsday bunker and decided they couldn’t be fwiends anymore
replaced with a very small shell script
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)
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
The ink on his dismissal letter isn’t even dry (modern HP printers suck!) and people are putting this kinds of websites out there already. Somebody didn’t think if they should while it was clear they couldn’t. “Site built with ❤️ and ChatGPT” (Also starting a gossip website isn’t love).
tough ❤️
And https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111429445440149721 is a promising one too
Historical examples like Apple, Uber, and WeWork show that such moves often led to stagnation or even GPUs.
Proving once again that text generation is at its best when it mimics the first step of the “write high, edit sober” process.
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?!
Dreamwidth is still written in Perl and funded with spare change from under the sofa cushions and it manages not to catch on fire except when under active DDOS.
denise glares at the ddos and it skulks away
TBF Denise has a terrifying glare.
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!
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
It’s designed to be the perfect language for writing 2001 e commerce websites in.
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
Ye I’m aware of the systematic injustice, just wanted to rant a bit :D
I figured, I also wanted to rant a bit. Post in TechTakes, it is cheaper than therapy.
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“not consistently candid in his communications” is also Altman’s entire job description.
Ding ding ding, we have a prediction market
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)
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
I’m sure they can just ask ChatGPT for a strategy on how to deal with this
………wait
(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)
OK, what will the other shoe be when it drops? Embezzling? Sexual harassment?
My prediction, he was fired because he doesn’t take the risk of AGI seriously enough. The next CEO is going to end up here a lot. Because that would be the silliest option, them ignoring the stories from his sister, any embezzlement or harassment but full on going ‘he picked stopping the torture instead of stopping the dust specks’
the new one apparently takes Yudkowsky seriously
If the end result of appointing an hpmor cultist is that they slow the hype cycle I guess it will be good but I suspect this will end with the rest of us crying “a plague o’ both their houses!”, worms’ meat in the Verona streets, before the AGI lovers and the AGI panickers hilariously die in the hypothetical crypt, leaving the tech industry burning behind them like the backdrop of a Shakespearean gang war.
That metaphor got away from me but in my defense I have a fever.
Get well soon.
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Considering both sides don’t care about consent (assuming the Altman allegations are real, and even if they aren’t see the GPT training data (different type of consent but still)) it will not be good.
Ow god… what have I done, I 'The Secret’ed this.
Given the recent SBF all% speedruns…
holy cannoli I wasn’t even thinking about embezzlement. If OpenAI lost all their money on a dodgy investment I might start to believe in a benevolent creator.
Ooh, I bet he spent it all on a giant WorldCoin orb.
Can you imagine the laughter if he’s lost it in fucking FTX or smt?!
fucken weasel
The girlssss are fightinnnnggg!!!
