OpenAI loves to “leak” stories about how they’ve developed an AI so good that it is scaring engineers because it makes people believe they’ve made a massive new technological breakthrough.
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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
So staff requested the board take action, then those same staff threatened to quit because the board took action?
That doesn’t add up.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Taleya@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Meanwhile anyone who works tech immediately thinks “some csuite dickhead just greenlit ED-209”
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
More like:
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They get a breakthrough called Q* (Q star) which is just combining 2 things we already knew about.
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Chief scientist dude tells the board Sam has plans for it already
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Board says Sam is going to fast with his “breakthroughs” and fires him.
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Original scientist who raised the flag realized his mistake and started supporting Sam but damage was done
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Microsoft
My bet is the board freaked out at how “powerful” they heard it was (which is still unfounded and from what they explain in various articles, Q* is not very groundbreaking) and jumped the gun. So now everyone wants them to resign because they’ve shown they’ll take drastic actions without asking on things they don’t understand.
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FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The whole thing sounds like some cockamamie plot derived from chatgpt itself. Corporate America is completely detached from the real world.
db2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
That’s exactly what it is. A ploy for free attention an be it’s working.
Identity3000@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s an appealing ‘conspiracy’ angle, but that idea doesn’t hold up to any real scrutiny whatsoever.
Why would the Board willingly trash their reputation? Why would they drag the former Twitch CEO through the mud and make him look weak and powerless? Why would they not warn Microsoft and risk damaging that relationship? Why would they let MS strike a tentative agreement with the OpenAI employees that upsets their own staff, only to then undo it?
None of that makes any sense whatsoever from a strategic, corporate “planned” perspective. They are all actions of people who are reacting to things in the heat of the moment and are panicking because they don’t know how it will end.
db2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
What reputation?
Why would they care about that?
Microsoft has put their entire sack in OpenAI’s purse. They could literally do or say anything to Microsoft.
Are you telling me you really think it’s outlandish to think the same people who push a glorified nested ‘if’ statement as AI would do what it said to do? Those people are goofy, if they thought they were being given a convoluted real life quest by a digital DM they’d be all about it.
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sound more like a ploy to become a fully for proffit get rid of the not for priffit board
echodot@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Why would they want attention not a publicly traded company?
db2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
What’s that got to do with anything? They sell a thing, they want the thing to sell more.