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Re:OpenAI Investors Try to Get Altman Back: WSJ by VirusNewbie on Sunday November 19, 2023 @03:52PM (#38337814)
Ilya is certainly the brains behind ChatGPT, but I believe a lot of engineering talent recently joined OpenAI because they aligned with Sam and Greg’s vision of making consumer software and commercializing it.

So while you’re right that Sama isn’t crucial to OpenAI, I think a lot more employees are aligned with Sama’s vision.

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Re:OpenAI Investors Try to Get Altman Back: WSJ by Hizonner on Sunday November 19, 2023 @07:14PM (#38340239)
Having those people quit could be a feature, rather than a bug.

If that "vision" is the thing that you're worried about, because you think rapid commercialization is actively dangerous, then you may very well have a reason to want to completely blow up the commercial side of OpenAI. Even if it gets reconstituted elsewhere, you've at least created a speed bump by forcing it to get reconstituted.

It's inconvenient that in the medium to long term that means you wind up with fewer GPUs for the True Cause(TM), but at least the people you have working on it believe in that cause, and at least you haven't actively accelerated some destructive outcome.

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