Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return
Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return
The announcement capped a tumultuous weekend for OpenAI, after Mr. Altman made a push to reclaim his job as C.E.O. of the artificial intelligence company.
Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return::The announcement capped a tumultuous weekend for OpenAI, after Mr. Altman made a push to reclaim his job as C.E.O. of the artificial intelligence company.
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And 500 more OpenAI employees might follow: https://www.neowin.net/news/over-half-of-openais-employees-may-quit-unless-the-board-leaves-and-brings-sam-altman-back/
I really don't get the employee position. They want to work at Microsoft? Literally the opposite of everything _open_ai claimed to stand for?
What a joke this whole "non-profit" owning "for-profit" structure turned out to be. For profit structure is like a virus and we see again and again it doesn't integrate with other systems.
Altman and Brockman were the founding leadership of the company/organization and many of these employees are "rockstar" researchers. They wanted to be a part of what they were leading — so it makes sense they still would even if it's under Microsoft.
If OpenAI doesn't have stable, rational and deliberative leadership, none of what they claim to stand for matters. The board did an end-run around the chair and summarily fired Altman Friday afternoon without consulting with any other stakeholders beforehand. They still haven't offered a coherent explanation for why they did what they did.
There's no "other stakeholders" tho. It's a non profit board with a profit capped company that they control. The whole goal of the structure was to resist monetary capture and yet here we are
A stakeholder is something different than a stockholder. A stakeholder could be an employee, investor, customer, someone selling equipment to them or even the community they work in.
Basically anyone who’s affected by their actions.
What makes you assume the employees ever cared about whether OpenAI is non-profit or not?
Microsoft is not the pile of shit it used to be. See the past 10 years
Their products sure don't seem to be anything other than steaming piles of shit. Seems like a distinction without a difference.
Do you mean internally? Because in terms of doing exactly what the worst possible thing is for people, they're a giant, steaming, fly ridden pile of shit
Go ahead and explain how they are so incredibly terrible.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs
I mean... Here's a start that's not even off the main topic yet.
But I mean... Have you looked at your windows install lately? Open some things and count how many ads or applications are there that you didn't install. Remember that Windows is paid software... And it isn't cheap either.
The EU is making laws to force Microsoft to stop being user hostile FFS... This is brand new news this month... Are you a fanboy or something?
I mean shit... Wikipedia has an article on this specific topic too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
How so?
Is it a new, revamped pile of shit?