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The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman's Ouster at OpenAI (nytimes.com)
7 points by breadwinner 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



“It doesn’t seem at all implausible that we will have computers — data centers — that are much smarter than people,” Mr. Sutskever said on a podcast on Nov. 2. “What would such A.I.s do? I don’t know.”

I love the OpenAI product and API and think that AI has enormous potential.

But I also think that statement by Sutskever is correct, and he was following his principles in trying to slow Altman down or hold him to his word about research resources or whatever. And it's not obvious that there was something "smarter" he could have done that would have actually been effective in the end.

But one would think he would have easily anticipated the response by the investors.





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