Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
by nerbert on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:55AM
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This is on point. This whole mess is indeed an alignment issue. The fact that this came as a surprise to him could be an indicator of insufficient engagement with the board.
Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
by calf on Saturday November 18, 2023 @07:31AM
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I've been watching For All Mankind and a small subplot was the director finally choosing to "play ball with the big boys" in order as to secure funding and stability for NASA's scientific projects. It made NASA underlings unhappy but was justified as a necessary evil.
It's like a real-life example, i.e. what would you do if you were in the CEO's position?
Of course, not for the petty reasons that you enlist. Sama has brought forth solidly reasoned arguments as to why the OS model did not work a bunch of times right now and, so far, this seems to align with a reality where every single semi-competitive available LLM (since they all pale in comparison to GPT-4 anyway) has been trained with a whole lot of corporate money. Meta side-chaining "open" models with their social media ad money is obviously not a comparative business, or any business. I get that the HN crowd + Elon are super salty about that, but it's just a bit silly.
No, Sams failure as CEO is not having done what is necessary to align the right people in the company to the course he has decided and losing control over that.