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>>davidb+(OP)
Ilya booted him https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294

>>johnwh+Uc1
This should be higher voted. Seems like an internal power struggle between the more academic types and the commercial minded sides of OpenAI.

I bet Sam goes and founds a company to take on OpenAI…and wins.

>>dannyk+Le1
Yes, and wins with an inferior product. Hooray /s

If the company's 'Chief Scientist' is this unhappy about the direction the CEO is taking the company, maybe there's something to it.

>>thomas+Oh1
Because the Chief Scientist let ideology overrule pragmatism. There is always a tension between technical and commercial. That’s a battle that should be fought daily, but never completely won.

This looks like a terrible decision, but I suppose we must wait and see.

>>lll-o-+qE1
> This looks like a terrible decision

What did Sam Altman personally do that made firing him such a terrible decision?

More to the point, what can't OpenAI do without Altman that they could do with him?

>>pmoria+DI2
> What did Sam Altman personally do that made firing him such a terrible decision?

Possibly the board instructed "Do A" or "Don't do B" and he went ahead and did do B.