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1. turkus+1i[view] [source] 2023-11-17 21:34:02
>>davidb+(OP)
I think it could simply be a matter of vision. Sam just recently sounded more cautious and calculated than ever, possibly scaling down the expectations from the current state of his company's AI [1]. That might not have played well with the board, based potentially on his previous messaging to them.

[1] https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1725300091450519927

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2. kromem+1q[view] [source] 2023-11-17 22:16:16
>>turkus+1i
I suspect you may be right.

I think OpenAI has made some really bad decisions with the core tech even while making great decisions with the overall services, and from Altman's various comments over the past two years I was under the impression this was coming from him.

The only reason I'm skeptical of this is the abruptness of it all. Why it needed to happen with a 24h turnaround is bizarre, unless there was something like an internal meeting last week regarding GPT-5 where his doomerism was even more sending things off the rails and there was a reactionary immediate "we no longer have faith you can do this."

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