[FRIAM] Open AI
Stephen Guerin
stephen.guerin at simtable.com
Wed Nov 22 11:31:47 EST 2023
Sam is back in the for-profit and the non-profit board is gone.
inversion of control: the tail wagging the dog in corporate governance
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https://openai.com/our-structure
the flow of governance control, like water in New Mexico, goes toward money
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 12:42 AM Pieter Steenekamp <
pieters at randcontrols.co.za> wrote:
> Hot off the press; Sam is going back to OpenAI.
> A new board has been appointed.
> It seems like Sam got what he wanted.
>
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, 7:22 am Pieter Steenekamp, <
> pieters at randcontrols.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Background
>> OpenAI is actually two companies. The original not for profit parent
>> company and the for profit subsidiary.
>> The parent, not for profit, appoints the board of the for profit
>> subsidiary and does not have a fudiciary obligation towards the financial
>> well-being of the company, only towards humanity; to ensure that AI is
>> developed for the good of humanity.
>> On Friday the board fired the CEO, Sam Altman, without giving reasons.
>> Since then Sam got an offer from Microsoft to join them and start a new
>> AI Microsoft subsidiary. Sam is reluctant to take it, he seems to think
>> that will kill OpenAi.
>> 95 percent of OpenAI employees signed a letter that if Sam goes to
>> Microsoft they will join him. Microsoft said they will accomdate them.
>> Now we are waiting - will OpenAI take Sam back? Will Sam and 95 percent
>> of OpenAI's employees join MS?
>> Or is there something else going to happen?
>> A Netflix movie couldn't have more drama and suspens.
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, 2:14 am Marcus Daniels, <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/openai-ilya-sutskever-sam-altman-fired/676072/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Marcus Daniels <
>>> marcus at snoutfarm.com>
>>> *Date: *Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 4:00 PM
>>> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>>> friam at redfish.com>
>>> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Open AI
>>>
>>> Rumors I have read:
>>>
>>> 1) Sam Altman was looking for money from sovereign wealth fund from
>>> Saudi Arabia to fund an NVIDIA competitor. And this was one example of
>>> him working side gigs not related to the Open AI mission.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) That the energy demands of LLMs on Azure are just too expensive, and
>>> the money lost per query is becoming too expensive, even for Microsoft’s
>>> hosting of OpenAI.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 3) That there was a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence and
>>> Sam Altman wouldn’t press the brakes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Pietro Terna <
>>> pietro.terna at unito.it>
>>> *Date: *Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 2:29 PM
>>> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>>> friam at redfish.com>
>>> *Subject: *[FRIAM] Open AI
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> can you explain to an old Italian friend the Open AI soap opera or
>>> drama?
>>>
>>> Best, Pietro
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