i know it is fun to deride people, but i suspect Tasha has done more and gone further in her life than you will, and your tone indicates anger at this
Well this sure seems unnecessary. I’m saying this because I googled her name when this happened, and the only articles I could find referenced her husband. I wasn’t seeing any of this work you’re talking about, at least not anything that would seem relevant. Can you link to some stuff?
Here’s a TechCrunch article that tries to go into the history of the OAI board, and doesn’t really have any information either: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/a-brief-look-at-the-histor...
Btw, I think “university trained prior executive” describes not just me but almost every single person on HN. “Involved in a non profit related to their work” I suspect also describes me and probably >90% of people posting on HN.
And also; maybe you haven’t been involved in non profit boards? “Spouse of famous/rich/etc” person is an extremely common reason to put somebody on a board for a practical reason: it helps with fundraising and exposure.
1) Somebody with a competing phone product.
2) A think tanker who is trying to make it so that the government is more involved in phones, and seems to think phones probably shouldn’t exist at all.
3) A relative unknown who’s primarily claim to fame seems to be marrying an actor who was famous 15 years ago.
It’s clownish. OpenAI needs to completely free themselves of these people. The Microsoft plan seems like it would have been the best for literally everybody.