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Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

“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 company said in its blog post.

EDITED TO ADD direct link to OpenAI board announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

Chief technology officer Mira Murati will be the interim CEO, effective immediately.

When contacted by The Verge, OpenAI’s communications department declined to comment beyond the blog post.

This is an extremely sudden turn of events as Altman has largely been the face of OpenAI, which arguably kickstarted the current AI arms race with last year’s hugely popular ChatGPT.

Altman is a co-founder of OpenAI and initially served as a co-chair of the company alongside Elon Musk.

Musk left in 2018 to avoid a conflict of interest with Tesla — he has since founded his own AI company, xAI.

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[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This post is unnerving

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How so?

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bot is using AI and arguably the technology of OpenAI to report on the news that a human has lost their job but has no context on what it is reporting.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I see your point. Not sure I can do anything about it, but yeah. It's kind of like an almost unnoticeable line in the sand has been crossed.

Thank you for taking the time to explain what you meant, I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise.