Mira Murati will be the interim CEO.

Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post.

EDITED TO ADD direct link to OpenAI board announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2061·
    11 months ago

    “AI is going to take away jobs.”

    “Wait… not like that.”

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    751·
    11 months ago

    I’m more surprised that the folks at OpenAI saw fit to fire him than I am that he committed fireable offenses.

  • zorlan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    581·
    11 months ago

    The company is now actually being run by ChatGPT, Mira is just the face it’s hiding behind.

    • rynzcycle@kbin.social
      381·
      11 months ago

      I asked Bard to give me a generic reason for firing a CEO.

      Certainly, here are some vague reasons for firing the CEO of an AI company:
      Leadership concerns: The CEO’s leadership style or personal conduct was not in line with the company’s values or culture. This could include issues such as lack of transparency, poor communication, or ethical breaches.

      Yup.

        • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          No, Bard is just making a prediction based on the way CEO firings are presented in press releases. Those press releases are never the “real” reason, what we’re seeing here is the way a board would frame the firing of its CEO. “Ethical breach” is the term used when “The CEO was killing hookers for fun and WHOO-WEE we did NOT want to get any of that on us,” is not considered appropriate to tell the press.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    333·
    11 months ago

    Oh no, anyways

    This is unprecedented. They let that schmuck at Unity “retire” on a holiday but they fired Sam. Oof.

    It sounds like there was a power struggle over the direction of OpenAI.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      I mean yeah but also no. I think anyone would be the former guy (i.e., the Sam on the left) over the latter if given the choice.

  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.eeEnglish
    267·
    11 months ago

    My guess — and this is pure conjecture — MS canned him because Bing didn’t eat Google’s lunch.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    11 months ago

    On one hand, this was posted 15 minutes before you posted this… on the other hand, this is a much clearer headline

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      301·
      11 months ago

      Really? I searched by new before I posted, saw nothing about Sam Altman.

      EDITED TO ADD you can color me blind, because yeah, there’s one titled “OpenAI announces leadership transition” right before mine. Shit. Not sure how to handle this, but if the mods want to delete mine they can.

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      411·
      11 months ago

      No idea, but given how sudden and out-of-the-blue this is, and the fact that he was co-founder of OpenAI (meaning that to some degree the board is pushing him out of his own company) you can make an educated guess that’s it’s huge.

      My guess, personally, is financial malfeasance, if only because personal misbehavior usually involves some hemming and hawing before a company concludes that the ejectee “is no longer a good fit and does not represent the values held by our organization.” This was very sudden, no one saw it coming, and that’s not too usual.

      I guess we’ll see, lol.

    • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      I interpret their wording that he lied to the board repeadetly and made some unethical backdoor deals of evil.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

    Chief technology officer Mira Murati will be the interim CEO, effective immediately.

    When contacted by The Verge, OpenAI’s communications department declined to comment beyond the blog post.

    This is an extremely sudden turn of events as Altman has largely been the face of OpenAI, which arguably kickstarted the current AI arms race with last year’s hugely popular ChatGPT.

    Altman is a co-founder of OpenAI and initially served as a co-chair of the company alongside Elon Musk.

    Musk left in 2018 to avoid a conflict of interest with Tesla — he has since founded his own AI company, xAI.

    The original article contains 239 words, the summary contains 112 words. Saved 53%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

        • itsathursday@lemmy.worldEnglish
          101·
          11 months ago

          The bot is using AI and arguably the technology of OpenAI to report on the news that a human has lost their job but has no context on what it is reporting.

            • wabafee@lemm.eeEnglish
              12·
              11 months ago

              Won’t that still be AI just a subset of it? But I guess you mean OpenAI gpt-3/ 4 here.

              • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
                4·
                11 months ago

                Please keep in mind that I am not an expert when it comes to AI/machine learning/Natural Language Processing and have just dabbled in those a few years ago. Also, many of these terms can be confusing because of all the marketing around them.

                But, in short, what I meant was that autotldr is not based on a neural network/deep learning, but “basic” language processing algorithms with simpler statistical models attached to them, if at all.

                What people generally mean with AI is some kind of deep learning which is helpful for more complicated tasks like “learning” about a topic and “understanding” things, but that is not really necessary for summarizing text since language has (mostly) fixed rules. So while there is certainly some overlap in the process, simple language processing does not need “AI” - you’d call it just machine learning, of which AI is generally a subset.

                You can read a little more about the sunmarization above here:

                https://miso-belica.github.io/sumy/summarizators.html

          • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            31·
            11 months ago

            Yeah, I see your point. Not sure I can do anything about it, but yeah. It’s kind of like an almost unnoticeable line in the sand has been crossed.

            Thank you for taking the time to explain what you meant, I wouldn’t have noticed it otherwise.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    11 months ago

    Probably because he went on his hype campaign trying to ask for regulations, except not ones that actually harm his company, and then the fear mongering.

  • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    11 months ago

    this can’t be good. even under the actual founding dude, GPT seemed to get knocked on the head every few months in quality. letting The Board exercise their precious estimable authority means pig-headed austerity and cost cutting 100% of the time. it was a hell of a technology.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    1020·
    11 months ago

    That sucks, and weirdly sudden too. I don’t like OpenAI but I do like Altman. I saw a lot of the videos he makes and he strikes me as someone that knows what he’s doing and, despite running it as a business, genuinely cares.

    It’s so alarming that he would get suddenly fired when the company is doing so well. Nobody knows what’s going on but I don’t doubt a “company board demands more profit” situation

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      383·
      11 months ago

      You mean the guy who spun this all up as a Non-Profit company, then spun up an LLC for that Non-Profit to manage, then made deals with Microsoft?

      Somehow his long term actions tell me, like most rich twatwaffles, you can’t actually trust what he is saying.

      When the board that he answers to says he hasn’t been consistently candid, you can bet your sweet ass any soundbites you as a regular schlub have read are “not consistently candid” and you’re hearing what he wants you to hear.

      But you do you on believing these chucklefucks when their actions speak loudly to the contrary.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      417·
      11 months ago

      I saw a lot of the videos he makes and he strikes me as someone that knows what he’s doing and, despite running it as a business, genuinely cares.

      This makes his firing make more sense to me. Boards don’t want a CEO who knows what he’s doing and genuinely cares. They want a CEO who will do their bidding without question, and draw all the flak for their decisions.

      • 520@kbin.social
        91·
        11 months ago

        Nah, competent boards want a CEO that will inspire investor confidence and pull in good numbers. Something Altman was doing in an above-and-beyond fashion.

        I’m sure there was something going on behind the scenes and he pissed off some important bumblefuck.