OpenAI announces leadership transition

Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company. Search process underway to identify permanent successor.

@film_girl WTF. Strange time to assess leadership
@film_girl Uhhh... So much to digest here.
@film_girl Savage, they didn't even give him the "spending more time with his family" euphemism!
@film_girl woah - so many questions…
@film_girl "not consistently candid in his communications with the board" wow
@film_girl This captures the sentiment perfectly

@film_girl Whoa 😳

Sam Altman seemed to be the face of AI and generally respected. Something huge must have happened.

@film_girl Maybe the board ran all their transcripts of meetings through ChatGPT and it spat out a summary, "this guy is a liar." I mean, you could probably do that for any CEO and get the same result, but still, progress.
@film_girl this has been a dramatic hour in tech.
@film_girl damn. Next episode of Rocket is gonna be a barnburner!
@scouten I mean. This is equivalent of Steve Jobs being fired from Apple in 1985!
@film_girl @scouten except that SJ wasn’t a trash human at the time…oh wait ;D
@film_girl “we didn’t intend to make all this money” is a hell of a statement from the board, if that’s true. What does this do to Microsoft now?
@film_girl Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.

@film_girl I think he lied to the board about something big, here are my guesses:
- OpenAI is burning too much money running its services
- There is no more training data and the AIs can't improve
- Lobbying efforts have failed and governments are going to start regulating AI
- He was planning a hostile takeover of the company

Whatever it turns out to be, I feel they found out something big behind closed doors

@film_girl and i JUST finished listening to the latest episode of rocket where you talked about sam
@bunnyhero great timing of me, am I right?
@film_girl @bunnyhero Something something apollo and gift of prophecy...
@film_girl oh shit…I wonder what happened to cause this.
@film_girl you gotta admit, it's kind of hilarious that he got fired for not being open.
@film_girl is this the biggest Rocket rule of all time?
(Haven’t listened to the latest episode but will soon!)