Well, if you applied to openAI before and were rejected, you should apply again.
It looks like they’re going to go on a hiring spree.
I’m gonna apply so I can leave to join microsoft
so all this circus was about to absorb openai unconditionally (agi comes to mind)
So this was the actual plan…cause a rift with the board so Microsoft takes the heart and brain of OpenAI without having to buy the remaining 51%…?
that. would. be. HILARIOUS.
Putting aside everything else, we’re witnessing the most significant labor action in tech in years.
ETA: Remember the good old days when Elon took over Twitter, in part because the workers had too much control?
How did workers having too much control result in Musk taking over Twitter?
Musk seems to be proving similarly inspirational to CEOs who believe their employees have grown too lazy, too coddled, too opinionatedabout their workplaces. On November 16th, the same day Musk asked Twitter’s remaining employees to sign an oath pledging to work long hours or resign, former PayPal CEO and Facebook crypto guy David Marcus tweeted:
I guess the times of complaining to the CEO of a large tech company at an all hands in front of thousands of people about the quality of toilet paper have come to an end. (True story. This really happened.)
Marcus has plenty of company in being annoyed at the entitlement of some tech employees; countless rank-and-file tech workers have told us stories about one outrageous request or another that one of of their peers made at an all-company meeting.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/29/23483812/elon-musk-tech-ceo-dei-inclusivity-twitter-ban-big-bang
So openAI is dead
Nope. Some people signed a letter, not a resignation. I wonder if those employees are that interested in OpenAI’s ideas if everything it takes to quit is another position at … hold your ground … Microsoft.
We may not have ChatGPT for much longer the way this is unfolding. Makes me really glad everyone on this sub has good local models now, as a substitute.
Wouldn’t there be some sort of employee stock sale coming up? So every single one of those is willing to run OpenAI into the ground and personally lose millions, instead of losing their fucking CEO? Wtf?
I don’t see the board backing down. We are witnessing the wanton destruction of something beautiful by unhinged ideologues.
I hope if nothing else comes out of this, that the public will at least be more aware and wary of the EAs and their strange crusade.
What does EA stand for?
effective altruism
Where else to make 1 mil a year?
What the hell? How am i supposed to believe that Ilya Sutskever signed the letter?
Microsoft will absorb OpenAI and we will live in a cyberpunk world ran by megacorps 🥳
Satya playing Game of Thrones and taking the entire kingdom (and moat) in one weekend.
Satya already made the announcement that Sam is joining Microsoft, so it’s pretty much impossible for OpenAI board to reinstate Sam as ceo.
The board can resign but they won’t get Sam back, so I think at this point OpenAI is going to crumble and Microsoft will take in everyone
If they brought all 770 of them over, and it cost the company 500k/yr per employee, they’d have 30 years of headroom on that 13b investment in OpenAI.
But they get 100% of the IP for 50% of the price.
And since OpenAI basically has to pay back that 13b anyways, and it’s all in compute credits, they won’t use if the company is defunct, lol…
This would be a massive win for Microsoft, that same 13b they would have spent on OpenAI will go much, much farther and get them much much more now.
But they get 100% of the IP for 50% of the price.
Officially and cleanly, they wouldn’t get a lot of openAI’s data that way. Especially the parameters for the new models and a lot of the best training data has not been shared with MS yet, and unless an employee brings that through the back door, they won’t ever get it.
Yeah but it’s 50% off plus the cost of training GPT-4 which is not gonna be 13B.
Only if Sam sign a contract with MS, and it explicitly prevents that.
Satya already made the announcement that Sam is joining Microsoft, so it’s pretty much impossible for OpenAI board to reinstate Sam as ceo.
Nadella said tonight that he’s OK with Altman being reinstated as CEO of OpenAI. Considering Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, it benefits Microsoft. So whether Altman is in Microsoft or it’s partner OpenAI is OK with him.
interim position at MSFT
Imagine the moment Microsoft takes OpenAI’s market share, and converts not just corporates but also individuals to paying customers