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0 pointsstaticman22y ago0 comments

Why would the good talent leave? Are they all a "family" and best buddies with Sam?

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My guess is that at least some of them are worried about shipping products and making profit, and agreed with the growth faction?

thepasswordis2y ago

Perhaps they don’t want to work for a board of directors which is openly hostile to the work they’re doing?

staticman2OP2y ago

The boarded sided with the chief scientist and co-founder of OpenAI in an internal dispute. How does that show hostility to the work OpenAI is doing?

YetAnotherNick2y ago

Ilya is pushing the unsafe AGI narrrative to stop public progress and make OpenAI more closed and intentionally slow to deliver. There are definitely people who are not sold by this.

meepmorp2y ago

I don't think wanting to make sure that their technology doesn't cause harm equates to being hostile to the work itself.

pixl972y ago

That would seem based on the individuals motivation at the end of the day...

It's easy to imagine two archetypes

1) The person motivated to make AGI and make it safe.

2) The person motivated to make AGI at any cost and profit from it.

It seems like OpenAI may be pushing for type 1 at the moment, but the typical problem with capitalism is it will commonly fund type 2 businesses. Who 'wins' really breaks down to if there are more type 1 or 2 people and the relative successes of each.

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chongli2y ago

Perhaps they didn't like the work they were doing? If they're experts in the field, they may have preferred to continue to work on research. Whereas it sounds like Sam was pushing them to work on products and growth.

polski-g2y ago

Because they want stock options for a for-profit company.

ls6122y ago

A lot of them have already left this morning. idk for sure why but a good bet is that they are more on board with Sam's vision of pushing forward AI than the safetyist vision.

esafak2y ago

What fraction?

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