OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return

Re:OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return by righthand on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:58PM (#38370021)

Is Sam Altman a future prospect of LLMs? It’s not like he holds the secret to GPT v5 or anything.

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Re:OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return by squeaky-clean on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:31PM (#38370516)

Seeing the amount of employees that are willing to follow him, yes I'd say he is.

If you have a mass exodus of employees, sure you can hire people to maintain ChatGPT 4, but they won't complete a GPT 5 or 6. That valuation is definitely based on the assumption that they will continue advancing AI and that they will consistently stay ahead of competitors for some time. They just axed both of those assumptions.

ChatGPT 4 as the endgame is not worth 90 billion dollars.

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Re:OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return by ben_w on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:11PM (#38370214)

I'd be surprised if Sam was by himself, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the people who signed that letter do hold the secret to the next big thing (GPT-5 probably isn't the next big thing; if it exists already it's likely just a nice iterative improvement and not a fundamental change).

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