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Re:Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board a... by mrandish on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @07:27PM (#38387430)
It's plausible that the three EA outside board members may have been concerned by reports of a breakthrough or maybe even alarmed by a demo. The part which doesn't seem plausible is about "declaring AGI" being so ill-defined. While we don't know the content of agreement behind MSFT's $13B investment, there's no way that the army of lawyers who drafted the contract left the most important term undefined or within to OpenAI's sole judgement.

That's just not the way such huge $$$ mega-corp contracts work.

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Re:Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board a... by swatcoder on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @07:48PM (#38387627)
It's constrained by the terms in their charter, which a sane outsider might see as fantastical and no threat at all when making a deal.

It's easy to take advantage of people who have blinded themselves, as some of the board members at OpenAI have.

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