Sam Altman, OpenAI Board Open Talks to Negotiate His Possible Return Negotiations center on Altman’s reinstatement as CEO Current CEO Shear has asked board for proof of Altman wrongdoing
That's basically where it was left off yesterday. Nadella even said he doesn't care where Altman's working, which kind of makes sense, as long as MSFT has access to him. lol. Much of this negotiation probably has to due with the amount of (potential) money folks like Tiger Global are hypothetically set to lose if OpenAI gets blown up. MSFT either gets "status quo again" oooor a/the current "leading" AI company either way. Companies like Amazon, Anthropic, Google, etc. may be interested in how this ends up, though.
This has to be one of the biggest/dumbest nerd soap operas in a while. I was just thinking that it included current CEO Marc Benioff begging for employees and ended with his/Salesforce's former co-CEO being the head of the OpenAI board. They added apex boss Larry Summers hopefully to keep an eye on the children (now watch him possibly get busted for something illegal or something). You give some nerds power, money, and some fame, and this is what happens. The world was already scary, but with stuff like this, I really am scared for the future. #cave And holy hell they've even got Bill Clinton working for the company :
First thing on the agenda, restructure the 501c so everyone gets milk from Microsoft and Altman can continue his Y Combinator/PT Barnum hustle with controlling interest... ??? Profit Save Humanity
Wait, was Sam Altman fired over ... vibes? Katie Notopoulos Nov 22, 2023, 10:24 AM CST Sam Altman is back — potential bad vibes with the board be damned. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images Sam Altman has returned to OpenAI as CEO, but the details of exactly why the board pushed him out in the first place are still a mystery. Advertisement Could it have been a simple as … bad vibes? Different theories over the last five days have been floated: The board feared he wasn't being careful enough about the possibility of AI destroying humanity. Or maybe the board member who is also Quora CEO was miffed that ChatGPT's latest updates might compete with his own AI product. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he hadn't been told the reason — and the would-be replacement CEO, Emmett Shear, also was reportedly unable to get the board to give him a specific explanation of what Altman did. Now, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the reason may have been even more unclear: The board might have simply — and vaguely — gotten the ick. From the Journal, emphasis ours: People familiar with the board's thinking said there wasn't one incident that led to their decision to eject Altman, but a consistent, slow erosion of trust over time that made them increasingly uneasy. Also complicating matters were Altman's mounting list of outside AI-related ventures, which raised questions for the board about how OpenAI's technology or intellectual property could be used. The board agreed to discuss the matter with their counsel. After a few hours, they returned, still unwilling to provide specifics. They said that Altman wasn't candid, and often got his way. The board said that Altman had been so deft they couldn't even give a specific example, according to the people familiar with the executives. From that description, it sounds like the board really couldn't pinpoint exactly what was wrong, other than some sort of ~bad vibes~. And if that is the case, it sounds like we'll never know the specific reasons. (And the board couldn't even name them!) But ultimately, they did have a point: In the end, Altman got his way.
Altman is a smooth talker and was groomed for this ever since Paul Graham took him under his wing then made him CEO of Y Combinator. I don't think ai run amok keeps him awake at night as much his total money bin being smaller than Scrooge McDucks
