The OpenAI Board on Friday dropped a bombshell: The biggest AI start-up was firing its CEO and Co-Founder Sam Altman. Then a weekend of chaos: Sam is going back, no, it’s a new CEO (Emmett Sheer from Twitch), Sam is hired by Microsoft or is he?
00:00 Show Intro @SetupSpawn& Set-Up
01:15 Friday: The Beginning
03:03 The Main Characters In Our Story
05:45 No One Knows Why This Happened
07:55 Saturday: OpenAI Supports Sam
09:53 Sam Visits OpenAI as a Visitor
11:00 Emmett Sheer is new Interim CEO
11:45 Monday: Sam Altman Joins Microsoft
13:10 Ilya Wants To Get Back Together
15:40 OpenAI Employee Resignation Letter
16:30 Why Does This Matter?
21:00 Computer Is Hard To Get
22:30 Follow These Journalists
WHAT HAPPENED?
In our emergency episode, we catch you up on the timeline so far (in the most human of terms) and give you our thoughts on what all this means for the future of both ChatGPT / OpenAI and the overall AI world. We’re here to help you decode the weird world of AI and even insane news like this.
NOTE: We refer to Mira Murati, the Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, in this episode as MINA Murati. Apologies and we have slapped each other for making this mistake.
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This story is ever changing so keep up to date with some of our favorite journalists:
Kevin Roose & Mike Issac (NYT)
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Kara Swisher (NYMag / Pivot)
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Ashlee Vance (Bloomberg)
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The Information
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And, of course, our friend Carly P Reilly
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