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>>nickru+(OP)
Sam and Ilya have recently made public statements about AGI that appear to highlight a fundamental disagreement between them.

Sam claims LLMs aren't sufficient for AGI (rightfully so).

Ilya claims the transformer architecture, with some modification for efficiency, is actually sufficient for AGI.

Obviously transformers are the core component of LLMs today, and the devil is in the details (a future model may resemble the transformers of today, while also being dynamic in terms of training data/experience), but the jury is still out.

In either case, publicly disagreeing on the future direction of OpenAI may be indicative of deeper problems internally.

>>jumplo+pc
That is just disagreement in technological aspects, which any well-functioning company should always have a healthy amount of within its leadership. The press release literally said he was fired because he was lying. I haven't seen anything like that from a board of a big company for a very long time.

>>anvuon+Zg
Additionally, OpenAI can just put resources towards both approaches in order to settle this dispute. The whole point of research is that you don't know the conclusions ahead of time.

>>kolja0+1m
Seemingly, OpenAIs priorities shifted after the public ChatGPT release, and seems to be more and more geared towards selling to consumers, rather than a research lab that it seemed they initially were aiming for.

I'm sure this was part of the disagreement as Sam is "capitalism incarnated" while Ilya gives of much different feelings.

>>capabl+Km
Maybe some promise was made by Sam to MS for the funding that the board didn't approve. He may have expected the board to accept the terms he agreed to but they fired him instead.