#ai (2023-11)
Discuss all things related to AI
2023-11-17
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
HUGE!
Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
Wow
Saw this somewhere else,
To announce this before market close on a Friday means they needed to do this immediately
I suppose that explains this chart.
the pandora box is opened but I wish it is implemented in open source
Chamath gives a great background. SamA joins Microsoft
It is so great that M$ finally shows up in the disputes, not a good sign for Sam himself either who is not a office person
2023-11-18
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2023-11-21
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Wild how this just keeps going.
and this tweet from the person who initiated the ousting of Sam, https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028, the comments from Elon Musk, ThePrimeagen, and more people are insightful
Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a modified board seemingly sans mutineers. Is it over now?
I’m so confused. https://x.com/sama/status/1726510261509779876
2023-11-22
2023-11-23
So if I understand the story so far, Ilya and the researchers are generally annoyed that every time they make some progress, then Sam grabs it and deploys it to production with reckless abandon. Then, Helen writes a paper where she blasts OpenAI for doing so.
Sam say’s “don’t shit on us, we’re gonna be rich.”
Ilya and the move-slow-ers say “We’re supposed to be the fire alarm that stops the machine before it destroys humanity. “
Sam says, ‘Well, I’m the CEO, bitch.’
So the move-slow-ers say, “OK, you’re fired,” essentially pulling the fire alarm.
Then Satya, a bunch of investors, and a surprising number of employees side with Sam and say “don’t shit on us, we’re gonna be rich.” They force the move-slow-ers to step down from the board, and get back to business.
So the board which was supposed to be the safety check against a rampant AGI pulled the fire alarm, but instead of the machine coming to a halt, it just fired the board and kept on moving fast.
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Sam is not responsible for doing so, it is not too late to stop training right now
2023-11-24
2023-11-29
This is exciting news, Perplexity launches an API offering. Their custom llama2 and mistral based inference layer is wicked fast at performing web search augmented generation and produces really impressive results.
