Sacked OpenAI boss Sam Altman to join Microsoft - BBC News
Sacked OpenAI boss Sam Altman to join Microsoft - BBC News
The artificial intelligence pioneer takes up a job with the tech giant days after he was fired by OpenAI.
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i think this is all fake to save face by everyone doing AI, if the AI boss is down people will stop investing in AI, and bigtech doesn’t want that, IMO. Right here Microsoft came to save the day but they pretty much saved the whole AI industry.
Nah. The greatest benefit to Microsoft here is now no competitors can hire him.
I am cautious to think he’s all that innovative, but rather was the figurehead. He might be able to poach the innovators though.
Yeah I doubt he was magic on his own, but if a competitor hired him he would utilise his insider OpenAI knowledge to make day to day decisions that might help a competitor close the gap or supersede OpenAI. Better to pay him millions of dollars a year to keep that knowledge in house and deprive competitors of the opportunity.
Doubt
ok 🤷 i did write IMO
they pretty much saved the whole AI industry
Sam Altman could've vanished from the face of the Earth, and AI would be fine. There are so many big players (including Microsoft) in the game and so many other AI researchers that things would've likely continued going strong.