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def some sort of scandal.

The prodigy Altman is booted after creating potentially the most successful company of all time and replaced by CTO who had no prior ML/AI experience becomes CEO. Wow.

>>jejeyy+(OP)
It strange - they could easily have done this with a different timeline and framed it as taking the company to the next level. Growing how fast they are definitely will require completely different leadership than when they were small.

Definitely smells of a scandal - why else would they need to get him out so quick?

>>jejeyy+(OP)
What prior ML/AI experience does Sam have?

>>jejeyy+(OP)
Sam Altman isn't the brains in OpenAI, it is the research scientists and engineers. Just take care of the rest of the company and let these geniuses do what they do, thats the role for the ceo.

>>strike+73
Good CEO leadership is critical... otherwise you end up with Google and an inability to deliver on any ML project.

>>strike+73
oh 100%, but you need someone to steer the ship in the right direction.

>>htrp+W6
i was replying more to "the ceo doesn't have AI/ML experience"

>>strike+qa
Sam worked with Andrew Ng at Stanford on ML: https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg/status/1699808792047960540 / https://archive.is/pJiF7

>>jejeyy+(OP)
Ilya Sutskever is the AI prodigy, not Sam. And he is one of the board members that presumably voted to fire Altman.

>>jejeyy+(OP)
> the most successful company of all time

Source? According to what metric?

>>jejeyy+(OP)
CTO pick is strange. But hey, it’s now a female led company so the board can pat itself on the back.

>>jejeyy+C7
This is a bit tangential but I feel like the meat of this notion is often misattributed.

“You need someone to steer the ship in the right direction.”

I think most people can handle the “right direction” part, so it really comes down to just needing _a person_, one person, who makes strategic decisions at a high level. And that’s it. I don’t think Sam is special here. I just think he was the guy in the spot.

>>strike+73
> Just take care of the rest of the company

Not many people can do that though

>>ignora+se
Sam studied at Stanford for a year