So my understanding from reading the drama the past day is Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI due to being too inclined to 'move fast and break things' by commercializing OpenAI technology, with Greg Brockman (cofounder/board member/close friend/ally) choosing to resign in solidarity. The board coup was organized by cofounder/Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever who apparently wants OpenAI's original slow moving safety vision.
It's speculated Sam Altman and Greg Brockman may start a new AI company.
So now seems like a good time to mention a few very high-level points in case they read it:
1. I love Sam Altman's ship early and often inclinations, even if that apparently got him fired. OpenAI was such a breath of fresh air compared to sclerotic companies like Google that can invent the Transformer architecture yet be organizationally incapable of shipping ChatGPT-level tools for years due to overly conservative safety concerns
2. I hate OpenAI (or Sam Altman's?) apparently puritanical inclination to anything considered Not Safe For Work, especially for paid API usage. Why not allow people to build and sell virtual partner chat bots with explicit NSFW content?
3. I dislike his apparent inclination to build a regulatory moat to block others from developing advanced AI -- it's easy to interpret this as purely in the self-interest of OpenAI shareholders
Without Sam Altman's inclination to move fast I imagine OpenAI may become slow, sclerotic and less capable of shipping early, like what Google has become.
Good luck Sam, and keep on shipping!
It's speculated Sam Altman and Greg Brockman may start a new AI company.
So now seems like a good time to mention a few very high-level points in case they read it:
1. I love Sam Altman's ship early and often inclinations, even if that apparently got him fired. OpenAI was such a breath of fresh air compared to sclerotic companies like Google that can invent the Transformer architecture yet be organizationally incapable of shipping ChatGPT-level tools for years due to overly conservative safety concerns
2. I hate OpenAI (or Sam Altman's?) apparently puritanical inclination to anything considered Not Safe For Work, especially for paid API usage. Why not allow people to build and sell virtual partner chat bots with explicit NSFW content?
3. I dislike his apparent inclination to build a regulatory moat to block others from developing advanced AI -- it's easy to interpret this as purely in the self-interest of OpenAI shareholders
Without Sam Altman's inclination to move fast I imagine OpenAI may become slow, sclerotic and less capable of shipping early, like what Google has become.
Good luck Sam, and keep on shipping!