Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/mystery-at-the-heart-of-the-openai-chaos/
Tech

Musk is entering the openai drama

admin

A Communication Letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Chatgap, MS, Neuralink, and Hacker News

Altman was removed by OpenAI’s nonprofit board through an unconventional governance structure that, as one of the company’s cofounders, he helped to create. It gave a small group of individuals wholly independent of the ChatGPT maker’s core operations the power to dismiss its leadership, in the name of ensuring humanity-first oversight of its AI technology.

There have been many twists and turns since Friday, with Altman making a failed attempt to return as CEO, the board replacing Murati as interim CEO with Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear, Microsoft announcing it would hire Altman and Brockman, and almost every OpenAI employee threatening to quit unless Altman returned.

Elon Musk needed fewer than 100 characters to add new chaos to the ongoing crisis swirling around OpenAI after the shock firing of CEO Sam Altman last week.

A person who responded to an email sent to an address listed on the Github profile told WIRED they saw the letter via a discussion on Hacker News and posted a copy of the original, found on Board.net, which allows anonymous posts. The person said they later removed their copy of the letter to preserve their privacy, adding “I have no idea as to the veracity of any of the contents.”

According to Musk, the unsigned letter that is addressed to the Openai’s board appears to have been written by concerned former employees of the company. WIRED has not been able to verify the authenticity or any of the claims.

Musk has himself been accused of similar behavior at several of his own ventures, which include automaker Tesla, rocket maker SpaceX, and brain interface developer Neuralink.

In, , , ,
Previous post Families of Hostages need Proof of Life in Gaza
Next post There was a mystery at the heart of the chaos

More Stories

Read Microsoft’s memo on security first

admin

Microsoft has outlined a set of security principles and goals that are tied to compensation packages for its senior leadership team. Microsoft is adding Deputy Chief Information Security Officer to each product team and is moving its threat intelligence team to report directly to the CISO. Microsoft has implemented multifactor by default across over 1 million of its own tenants.

There are side effects of Covid vaccines

admin

Gregory Poland, the 68-year-old editor in chief of Vaccine, a scientific journal, has claimed that a loud whooshing sound in his ears accompanied his first COVID-19 vaccine shot. “Over three years have passed since a ringing in his ears, a racing heart, pain in his eyes, mouth and genitals was experienced by a New York City nurse practitioners,” Poland said.

I fell out of love with the lab and was in love with business

admin

A student at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lithuania: a part-time product-manager post during the COVID-19 pandemic Before the COVID-19 pandemic, when she was an undergraduate molecular-biology student at Vilnius University in Lithuania, I loved laboratory work. It’s common for science students to work during their studies and for me it provided a chance to see what working in the biotech field was like, she said.