News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks b... by ignoramous on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:20AM (#38343870)
Mira isn't on the OpenAI Board.
Re:Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks b... by dundarious on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:33AM (#38343982)
I genuinely don't remember who's on it, so thanks for the data point. Regardless, my argument is they needn't act in total unanimity.

I presume this Mira person wasn't totally freelancing -- how would this even end up being presented to the board without some direction from someone on the board. So maybe more like 3.5 against 0.5. It could have been a total flip flop, but that's a bigger assumption. I have no problem not assuming grand narratives until the basic reporting shakes out.

Re:Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks b... by dragonwriter on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:08AM (#38344377)
> I presume this Mira person wasn't totally freelancing

She was the interim CEO; it seems that it was her and some of the rest of the executive team, not the board, that wanted Sam to come back. The board apparently was working on finding a new interim CEO to replace Mira that wasn't in Sam's camp more than it was trying to bring Sam back.

Re:Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks b... by dundarious on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:04AM (#38349826)
Thanks. So it seems like there were not even any individual flip-flops from the board (until Ilya Sutskever's more recent comments), so they were pretty "steadfast" after all.