The scandal around the company Open AI is intensifying: the CEO has resigned, 90% of the employees are threatening to be fired, and the chief scientist first supported the decision of the board of directors and then moved to management. he sided with the outraged employees and he signed a letter protesting the dismissal of Sam Altman.
More than 700 employees (90% of OpenAI, including senior managers) are threatening to resign if the board of directors does not resign. The scandal surrounding the startup that created ChatGPT began on Friday when, unexpectedly for everyone and himself, its CEO Sam Altman was fired.
“If you had known that you would have taken action, it would have been very easy for you to avoid it if you had known, and that is why the board did not inform Microsoft. The same thing happened to him as Elon Musk: you can have a mission that you like or be distracted by 50 missions. What happened to him was that he took on other projects that were not related to the main mission, but he can’t get excited about 50 projects. It is very difficult. And I think this is a risky situation that Sam is definitely in, as is Elon Musk,” says Arijit Sengupta, founder and CEO of AIBLE.
On Monday, Microsoft, which has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, announced that it had hired Sam Altman after firing him. Along with former company president and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, who resigned in protest, they will lead a new artificial intelligence research group, AP reports.
“Microsoft has become an actor. This is crazy. Like Google with its Gemini: its great project and hope. Microsoft was not successful with Bard. Gemini has been delayed until January. If Google launched Gemini right now and it was good, they would be going crazy right now. But Microsoft now owns everything and is by far the dominant player in artificial intelligence,” says Chris Winfield, founder of Understanding AI.
The unexpected turn in this story is associated with the chief scientist of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, who, according to the New York Times, due to fear that AI could surpass human capabilities and become a threat, as well as disagreements with Altman , not only supported him, But, according to the newspaper, he led the board of directors’ decision to fire the CEO. But on Monday he changed his mind and wrote on the social network X:
“I deeply regret my participation in the board’s actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. “I love everything we’ve created together and will do everything I can to bring the company back together.”
The first comment on this post is from Elon Musk, who wrote that “the world needs to know if OpenAI is doing something potentially dangerous to humanity.” In place of the fired Altman, the OpenAI board of directors appointed the company’s technical director, Mira Murati, who supported the former boss, after which the position was transferred to Emmett Shira, former CEO of Twitch.
