Curious of what folks take aways were from the drama that unfolded at OpenAI?
I think one thing for sure for me was how fast this all has evolved. It hasn’t even been 48 hours, and there are thousands of stories and every minute the story is changing.
Thoughts?
We don’t know what happened, so we can’t derive any lessons from this.
Was Sam Altman fired with or without cause? If he committed fraud or something and was removed because of that then there’s not much to learn besides don’t commit fraud. If he was fired for disagreeing with the board on a fundamental issue, the lesson is to understand your powers and ability in the company. He’s an employee and nothing more, so it’s not like he’s Zuckerberg where he can just do whatever he wants with majority control.
My guess is he saw things one way and the board saw things another way and he wasn’t willing to budge on an issue he believed was important.
He’s realisticly between these two. I suspect we will see a fairly stout exedous from the company with his firing if it isn’t for fraud and does hold pretty decent discretion. Top that off with Microsoft not knowing it was going to happen and I suspect there will.be some real major changes as a result of it
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin scam is enough to have him ousted. That was nothing but a horrible scheme to monetize peoples’ intimate personal information.
There is zero good that would come from Worldcoin, which is why they started off in various third-world countries, stealing peoples identity data that were not well educated enough to realize the implications of what they were doing.