4 ms·

Not the only one questioning. Going for-Profit, and several top exec leaving at same time? Before getting the money? """Question: why would key people leave a

Not the only one questioning. Going for-Profit, and several top exec leaving at same time? Before getting the money? """Question: why would key people leave an organization right before it was just about to develop AGI?" asked xAI developer Benjamin De Kraker in a post on X just after Murati's announcement. "This is kind of like quitting NASA months before the moon landing," he wrote in a reply. "Wouldn't you wanna stick around and be part of it?""" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/openais-murati-shocks-with-sudden-departure-announcement/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/opena... Is this the beginning of the end for OpenAI?

gklitz 2y ago
The point is that OpenAI (the for protists) won’t die from not having invested AGI, they have an extremely profitable opportunity from “just” selling api calls and consultant hours. But that just brings them a successful shovel seller, not the societal transformation that the non-profit is aiming at, so it makes sense to detangle the non-profit and for profit. Also because you know… the non-profit tried to strangle the for profit to take over control when they tried to oust Sam, so there’s that.