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Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed. Karpathy, a prominent artificial intelligence researche
by lopkeny12ko 3y ago
Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed.
Karpathy, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher, was developing a product he has described as an AI assistant and worked closely with the company’s research chief, Bob McGrew. While ChatGPT has been a hit with consumers, OpenAI wants to launch software that can automate complex computer-based tasks, like filling out expense reports and entering them in accounting software, The Information reported last week.
Karpathy rejoined OpenAI last year after spending five years at Tesla, where he oversaw development of its Autopilot semi-automated driving software. His departure from OpenAI comes almost exactly one year since he said on X that he was returning to the company.
Karpathy couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. “Andrej is departing to pursue personal projects. We are deeply grateful for his contributions and wish him the best,” OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood said in a statement. “His responsibilities have transitioned to a senior researcher who worked closely alongside Andrej.”
Karpathy is the first high-profile departure at OpenAI since several senior staff resigned in the wake of CEO Sam Altman’s ouster by the board of OpenAI’s nonprofit parent. The staffers returned to the company alongside Altman after the board reversed its decision. Despite the drama, OpenAI’s business growth continued.
Karpathy has been a public face of OpenAI through podcasts, and he posts frequently on X. He has described large language models, the conversational AI that powers ChatGPT, as a kind of operating system because of its ability to retrieve files, write code and run programs, and understand audio, images and human commands.
- sashank_1509 3y agoNot sure how I feel about this. I think just telling the gist of the article is fine, it’s like me talking to a friend, but sharing the article word to word seems like stealing.
- raincole 3y ago[flagged]
- camillomiller 3y agoAs a journalist, I defend the habit of sharing archive links. Paywalls are a lazy and detrimental solution to a larger financial problem for media organizations. They limit the access to information to a specific subset of people, and let misinformation run wild and free. So yes, sharing the article is important in this case. If there was, say, a 300$ per year global subscription to a 100 of publications, I'm also sure 90% of hacker news would buy it.
- raincole 3y ago> If there was, say, a 300$ per year global subscription to a 100 of publications, I'm also sure 90% of hacker news would buy it. No one is going to pay $300/yr to read news articles online. But even people do that, by your logic it's just limiting the access to information to a specific group of those who are able and willing to pay $300/yr to read news.
- blairbeckwith 3y agoI assure you that many people spend $300 annually on news and journalism.
- alemanek 3y agoThis kind of already exists with Apple News+. Not sure how well that is going but if anyone has the reach to make this work it would be Apple. Personally I am for anything that can decouple advertising from reporting. There are just too many perverse incentives that it creates.
- jjulius 3y ago>But since copyright is evil (when it's not mine) and content creators aren't worth their salt (if they're not me) so it's okay to do that. This is a disingenuous generalization.
- hardwaresofton 3y agoI always thought some of the people posting the archive links were shills for the people running that site (it’s monetized with ads) — brilliant strategy.
- mholt 3y agoIt's kind of a protest against the unethical practice that sites like this often do where they let search engines see their entire article for free just to get indexed and ranked highly, only to lock out visitors who click on those links. It's deceptive and manipulative just to get clicks. gary_0's reply below is a good way to frame the deception: show the search engine one thing, show the user something else.
- gary_0 3y agoBefore they switched to pro-evil, Google used to ban you from their index if you did that (show them one thing, and human visitors something else).
- spoonjim 3y agoWhich itself had funny consequences. Expert Sexchange used to show you a page with a payment dialog up top but you could just scroll down to the content.
- simondotau 3y agoI agree that we should criticise two-faced paywalls. We can do this by not linking to paywalled articles in the first place. After all, this is just reporting of a newsworthy event, other publishers exist — or will exist within minutes. (And if there aren't at least two good sources of reporting, perhaps we shouldn't assume it's true anyway?) It's important to remember that respect for the fundamentals of copyright is a prerequisite for respecting the GNU GPL and other such open source licenses.
- artninja1988 3y agoShould he have rephrased the info instead?
- mholt 3y agoYeah, run it through ChatGPT to summarize it and get some truly original content
- lopkeny12ko 3y agoI don't see how this is any different than posting an archive link. In this case, theinformation.com articles are still paywalled in archive links. So I just pasted the contents.
- legerdemain 3y agoBob McGrew from Palantir is OpenAI's research chief? That's one hell of a move up for him!