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David GerardM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish • 1 month ago

How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)

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How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)

pivot-to-ai.com

David GerardM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish • 1 month ago
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Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI in 2023 by the nonprofit board. After considerable internal turmoil and external pressure from his venture capitalist mates and from Microsoft, he was reinstated. K…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrBjeAtJUk - video

  • @dev_null@lemmy.ml
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    7•1 month ago

    Thanks for answering, it’s… fascinating in it’s bizarreness.

    • @scruiser@awful.systems
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      7•1 month ago

      Its the sort of stuff that makes great material for science fiction! It’s less fun when you see it in the NYT or quoted by mainstream politicians with plans that will wreck the country.

    • @Soyweiser@awful.systems
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      fascinating

      Nooo run! Beware the lure of the abyss that is learning more about this stuff. Remember you cannot unlearn things!

      • @jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1•7 days ago

        You can with enough deliberate brain damage

        • @Soyweiser@awful.systems
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          Not if the basilisk simulates you.

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