{"id":12373,"date":"2023-11-23T18:37:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T17:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/huge-egos-are-in-play-behind-the-firing-and-rehiring-of-openais-sam-altman\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T17:37:17","slug":"huge-egos-are-in-play-behind-the-firing-and-rehiring-of-openais-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/huge-egos-are-in-play-behind-the-firing-and-rehiring-of-openais-sam-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Huge egos are in play\u2019: behind the firing and rehiring of OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surprise sacking of the AI venture\u2019s CEO was followed by a near mutiny at the company and his reinstatement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/17\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired\">OpenAI\u2019s messy firing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/22\/sam-altman-openai-ceo-return-board-chatgpt\">re-hiring<\/a> of its powerful chief executive this week shocked the tech world. But the power struggle has implications beyond the company\u2019s boardroom, AI experts said. It throws into relief the greenness of the AI industry and the strong desire in Silicon Valley to be first, and raises urgent questions about the safety of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AI that we\u2019re looking at now is immature. There are no standards, no professional body, no certifications. Everybody figures out how to do it, figures out their own internal norms,\u201d said Rayid Ghani, a professor of machine learning and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. \u201cThe AI that gets built relies on a handful of people who built it, and the impact of these handfuls of people is disproportionate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/23\/huge-egos-are-in-play-behind-the-firing-and-rehiring-of-openais-sam-altman\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3167c7057844706ccb0917083b47ebf70ef68185\/0_166_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8a7e401fff8a97bca8f25549b7d5f676\" title=\"\u2018Huge egos are in play\u2019: behind the firing and rehiring of OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman\" \/>The surprise sacking of the AI venture\u2019s CEO was followed by a near mutiny at the company and his reinstatement<br \/>\nOpenAI\u2019s messy firing and re-hiring of its powerful chief executive this week shocked the tech world. But the power struggle has implications beyond the company\u2019s boardroom, AI experts said. It throws into relief the greenness of the AI industry and the strong desire in Silicon Valley to be first, and raises urgent questions about the safety of the technology.<br \/>\n\u201cThe AI that we\u2019re looking at now is immature. There are no standards, no professional body, no certifications. Everybody figures out how to do it, figures out their own internal norms,\u201d said Rayid Ghani, a professor of machine learning and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. \u201cThe AI that gets built relies on a handful of people who built it, and the impact of these handfuls of people is disproportionate.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprise sacking of the AI venture\u2019s CEO was followed by a near mutiny at the company and his reinstatement OpenAI\u2019s messy firing and re-hiring of its powerful chief executive this week shocked the tech world. But the power struggle has implications beyond the company\u2019s boardroom, AI experts said. It throws into relief the greenness &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/huge-egos-are-in-play-behind-the-firing-and-rehiring-of-openais-sam-altman\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Huge egos are in play\u2019: behind the firing and rehiring of OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}