Sam Altman is a habitual liar and can't be trusted, says former OpenAI board member
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Ed Zitron walks you through how career manager Adam Mosseri pushed out Instagram's original founders, turning it into an ultra-profitable app that barely works, and how Sam Altman, the so-called hero of the AI boom, is a lobbyist dressed as a technologist best-known for being an absent, self-obsessed demagogue.
Ed Zitron walks you through how career manager Adam Mosseri pushed out Instagram's original founders, turning it into an ultra-profitable app that barely works, and how Sam Altman, the so-called hero of the AI boom, is a lobbyist dressed as a technologist best-known for being an absent, self-obsessed demagogue.
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Will Republicans help us deal with the issues tech is presenting particularly pertaining to black issues?
they creating AI images of images of black trump supporters and got bots online to sew discord, so no republicans won't be looking to do anything positive for black people in any regard.
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Yeah that’s a threat for sure
It's amazing how Sam is destroying his own company with his lies, lack of transparency, and obsessive need for power. I don't think he can help himself. I got the sense that something was off about him when listening to his interviews. He can never seem to give a straight and direct answer about anything.
He’s full of sh!t. Patchwork guard rails on LLMs aren’t going to produce anything innovative.
How can you trust something with less neural networks than a cockroach ?
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It’s not a lie… he’s hallucinating 
OpenAI's brain drain isn't a great look for Sam Altman
OpenAI is losing key members like cofounder John Schulman to rivals, adding to challenges in the AI market and trust issues for CEO Sam Altman.
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OpenAI's brain drain isn't a great look for Sam Altman
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OpenAI will have to weather the storms of being the first company to take generative AI mainstream. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images;Chelsea Jia Feng/BI
OpenAI is losing key members, including cofounder John Schulman, who left for Anthropic.
Despite leading the market with ChatGPT, OpenAI faces big challenges in the fledgling AI world.
Trust issues and whistleblower complaints add to Sam Altman's obstacles as CEO.
OpenAI is losing key members during a pivotal time in the artificial intelligence market, and it's not a good look.
On Monday, cofounder John Schulman announced that he would be leaving OpenAI to work at rival Anthropic. He joins two other high-level executives — though president Greg Brockman said he's taking an extended leave of absence — and several former employees in what appears to be an exodus from the ChatGPT maker helmed by Sam Altman.
"It's not good at all for OpenAI," said tech analyst Jacob Bourne at Emarketer, a sister company to Business Insider.
Although OpenAI got ahead in the AI arms race when it released its chatbot in a surprise move in November 2022, being the first may not be enough to keep it at the top of the leaderboard as other, bigger companies build and release their own AI and key executives depart.
"OpenAI has no 'moat,'" Mike Gualtieri, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, said.
In business, a moat refers to a significant advantage that keeps a company more or less untouchable from its rivals and helps it maintain its market share.
Gualtieri told BI that Big Tech companies, Google and Meta in particular, already had generative AI tech at the same time as OpenAI.
"They were just afraid to release because hallucinations, etc, could impact their reputation and business," Gualtieri said.
Just last week, Meta released a statement addressing a hallucination that prompted its MetaAI chatbot to say that the July 13 assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump didn't happen. The story drew a lot of attention and criticism.
"I think we're going to see more of this kind of scrutiny, and it's not going to be just directed at OpenAI," Bourne said
OpenAI — and Sam Altman — are also under a lot of other scrutiny. On July 1, whistleblowers at OpenAI contacted the Securities and Exchange Commission, calling for it to investigate the company for rule violations around NDAs. Weeks before that, nine current and former OpenAI employees signed an open letter pointing out the risks of generative AI. And the company's management has been seen to be split between pressing ahead with AI development and having a more cautious approach.
"I decided to leave OpenAI because I lost hope that they would act responsibly, particularly as they pursue artificial general intelligence," Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI employee who signed the letter, previously said in a statement.
Tech companies are spending heavily on AI endeavors, but trust remains one of the key factors in how much their investments will pay off.
Emarketer's Bourne said, "It's kind of this perfect storm for the emergence of this kind of concern around profits over safety that we're seeing."
And, Bourne said, as a young company with an "unusual government structure," OpenAI will continue to be under a magnifying glass — possibly even more than well-established rivals.
Meantime, it looks like OpenAI's brain drain to competitors could put the company at a further disadvantage despite its first-mover advantage and Apple partnership.
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The singularity is literally starting right now and 99% of people have no idea
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The singularity is literally starting right now and 99% of people have no idea
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The tweet by an OpenAI developer is saying that some changes (or updates) to the OpenAI codebase were made entirely by a specific AI system called "o1."Here's a breakdown:
- PRs: This stands for "Pull Requests." In software development, a pull request is when someone suggests changes to the code and asks others to review and approve those changes.
- OpenAI codebase: This refers to the collection of code that makes up the OpenAI system.
- Authored solely by o1: This means that these changes were written and proposed entirely by an AI system named "o1," without any human intervention.
