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>Ilya, and the board, should have been well aware of what was being released on that day for months Not necessarily, and that may speak to the part of the Boar
by passwordoops 3y ago
>Ilya, and the board, should have been well aware of what was being released on that day for months
Not necessarily, and that may speak to the part of the Board's announcement that Sam was not candid
- barbazoo 3y agoI can’t imagine an organization where this wouldn’t have come up on some roadmap or prioritization meeting, etc. How could leadership not know what the org is working on?! They’re not that big.
- googlethrwaway 3y agoBoard is not exactly leadership. They meet infrequently and get updates directly from management, they don't go around asking employees what they're working on
- barbazoo 3y agoTrue. So the CTO knew what was happening, wasn’t happy, and then coordinated with the board, is that what appears to have happened?
- threeseed 3y agoCTO who is now acting CEO. Not making any accusations but that was an odd decision given that there is an OpenAI COO.
- browningstreet 3y agoThey do typically have views into strategic plans, roadmaps and product plans.
- naasking 3y agoGoing into detail in a talk and discussing AGI may have provided crucial context that wasn't obvious from a PowerPoint bullet point, which is all the board may have seen earlier.
- late2part 3y agoMore supervision than leadership...
- s1artibartfast 3y agoSurely Ilya Sutskever must have known what was being worked on as Chief Scientist?
- aunty_helen 3y agoI can't imagine an organization that would fire their celebrity CEO like this either. So maybe that's how we arrived here.