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@SandeepRamesh @varun_mathur Ugh. Can’t stand faux tautolgous thinking like this.

@varun_mathur Counterpoint: Mira and Ilya have obviously thought through this scenario (it's obvious to a 5yr old)and thought this was the better alternative to whatever else might unfold.

Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens. Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT. Heck, I sometimes ask the same thing 5 times. Also, the last deal at $80 billion valuation - is as dead as the Egyptian pharaohs. Glorious to write about and visualize. But super dead, under the sand, not coming back. Not only that - but you sideswiped your biggest partner, Microsoft. Of course publicly they will say the right thing, but you know and they know it and a random fellow like me knows it - they must be seething mad about it. Few of your top researchers have already quit, and if there is one thing Sam Altman is especially good at, it is raising and deploying capital. Before the sign with your name and title as “CEO” and “Defacto CEO” gets emblazoned in the OpenAI offices, Sam would have a new company, $1 billion investment and offers out to all your, soon to be ex, top product people and researchers. So you head into next week having lost your top dealmaker, top researchers, top product visionary, top partner and top investor, and with a business which has terrible unit economics. And let’s not forget - the two of you are not entrepreneurs. Most people in your board have never held a proper tech job ever. You have never had to face the abject rejection which follows from pitching many investors, going through the process, and getting to close. Getting to close is the toughest. Sometimes investors say yes, but they don’t actually mean it. Sometimes they even sign, and still don’t wire the funds. You will need to live through all of it, the pain and rejection, and feel intense amount of pressure of having to provide for your team members - who pays their mortgages, car loans, kids school tuition - the ones whom you played with at the last company picnic. After you are exhausted with the realities of the market - you will sell out OpenAI to Microsoft entirely, and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop. Microsoft will never fire you, Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person. But deep down in your heart, as you are watching the Netflix movie on OpenAI and Joseph-Gordon Levitt’s wife plays herself as a board member who fired Sam Altman over Google Meet, you will think and realize that you had it all - you could have been at the helm of a $1 trillion company. History will forget you. Sam and Greg and everyone else would have moved on and forgotten about you. e/acc would have built out fundamental OpenAI alternatives in anycase..

@eshear @OpenAI Lol. ‘I did not make the decision lightly. Ultimately I felt that I had a duty to help if I could.’ Pul-eeze. You won the f-ing lottery and you shrieked like a little boy saying omg omg omg… and you took the job pronto before anyone could reconsider. Duty to help… 🤮

Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my now 9 month old son. Spending time with him has been every bit as rewarding as I thought it would be, and I was happily avoiding full time employment. I took this job because I believe that OpenAI is one of the most important companies currently in existence. When the board shared the situation and asked me to take the role, I did not make the decision lightly. Ultimately I felt that I had a duty to help if I could. I have spent today drinking from the firehose as much as possible, speaking with the board, a small number of major partners, and listening to employees. Our partnership with Microsoft remains strong, and my priority in the coming weeks will be to make sure we continue to serve all our customers well. OpenAI employees are extremely impressive, as you might have guessed, and mission-driven in the extreme. And it’s clear that the process and communications around Sam’s removal has been handled very badly, which has seriously damaged our trust. I have a three point plan for the next 30 days: - Hire an independent investigator to dig into the entire process leading up to this point and generate a full report. - Continue to speak to as many of our employees, partners, investors, and customers as possible, take good notes, and share the key takeaways. - Reform the management and leadership team in light of recent departures into an effective force to drive results for our customers. Depending on the results everything we learn from these, I will drive changes in the organization — up to and including pushing strongly for significant governance changes if necessary. I will be rolling these out as they become clear over the 30 day period. OpenAI’s stability and success are too important to allow turmoil to disrupt them like this. I will endeavor to address the key concerns as well, although in many cases I believe it may take longer than a month to achieve true progress. I have nothing but respect for what Sam and the entire OpenAI team have built. It’s not just an incredible research project and software product, but an incredible company. I’m here because I know that, and I want to do everything in my power to protect it and grow it further. It's now 1am and I'll pick this up tomorrow. PS: I am posting this here both because I think it’s in the general public interest to know in this case, but please don’t expect all future internal comms to come through a public channel. PPS: Before I took the job, I checked on the reasoning behind the change. The board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models.

@ssankar @ilyasut Brilliant.

@ilyasut New meaning for Stochastic 🦜

I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.

@DrJimFan It’s a good move but hardly a ‘masterclass’. You’d have to be an idiot to not hire them. They’ve been working together for years. Masterclass, c’mon?

This is a master 4D chess move. WOW. 1. No new corporate structure. MSFT is literally one of the oldest for-profit tech companies out there, with a mature legal structure. Whether it's good for AGI is up for debate. 2. MSFT always wants to own the GPT weights. Now the moment has finally come. It's gonna take a while to re-train, but that's OK. Eventually, it will be much easier for MSFT to deeply integrate GPTs into Teams, Office, Windows, etc. 3. MSFT now has the superpower of dynamically balancing 2 most significant AI players, by simply allocating Azure compute to their will. 4. Moving troops is a lot easier now. Fast channels will be open and people will pour in. 5. The existing infrastructure engineers can do zero-shot transfer to the new team, because it's all Azure. No learning curve. Satya comes up with a killer move so fast after a catastrophic setback. What a master class. Chaos is a ladder.

@SahilBloom @mrsharma How is it 4D chess? Seems to be incredibly basic and obvious?

@mrsharma The private equity fund is the smartest idea. It’s next level 4D chess.

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@ciguleva @iamneubert @memdotai mem it

TUTORIAL: How to Create a 'Chatbot' Animation with AI You’ll need: • Midjourney • Runway • CapCut (or any other tool to reverse the video) • Less than 1 hour • A cup of good coffee or a glass of water 😀 Let's dive in. Step by Step.

First @elon carried a sink… an unwitting metaphor for how he would ‘sink’ Twitter. Now he renames it ‘X’ - a cartoon symbol for dead. Guess he is going to X out Twitter. Too bad 🙁.

@matt_gray_ It’s not an ‘illusion’, it’s an aspiration. And there’s nothing wrong with aspiring to perfection. It’s what Olympians aspire to, for example. And it’s a different litmus test. No one ever won an Olympics gymnastics routine with an 80/20 mindset. And some get it - a perfect 10.0.

Perfection is an illusion.

@AlexHormozi Also depends on how many people. You might rate your own opinion at 1, and others at .003. But if I’m front of thousands of people it might made sense to adjust to the aggregate of all those ‘opinions of you’.

If you act differently when you’re alone than when you’re in front of other people, then you value their opinions of you more than your own.

Just read @pmarca’s Panglossian assessment of AI. I’m all for AI (I love it) but your arguments are so simultaneously sophmoric and condescending it’s unreal. I know you’re rich and built Mosaic. But that doesn’t mean you can pass this off as ‘thought’. pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-will-…

@ValaAfshar Huh. I’ve been struck by @Microsoft’s claim that AI will free us from ‘drudgery’, an unusual but evocative word. Looks like @satyanadella lifted it straight from Steve Jobs. Instructive that PCs did not remove drudgery. It boosted productivity but facilitated Dilbert-esque work.

“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” Steve Jobs talks about the bicycle of the twenty-first century in 1981

@DailyLoud God, his name’s Jamelle Demons?? C’mon.

The mugshot of YNW Melly’s lawyer is now going viral online 👀

@minchoi @_Borriss_ I don’t have a huge problem with imitation per se (Google did same with Android-Apple, it’s their playbook). I’d have way more respect if the presenter had said ‘here it is you all know how to use it, we just copied OpenAI, have at it’. Instead of 6 mins of pretending it’s new.

@minchoi @_Borriss_ Google’s video explaining the playground is 🙄. It shows a complete carbon copy of OpenAI’s playground. Everything - the controls, the UI and UX, the sliders, even the slider labels - is an exact copy. Imagine ripping off something hugely famous and pretending it’s new. 🙄🙄

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@damengchen What’s going to happen when copilot comes out? Is the play here just to capitalize before this becomes native, or is there a longer play?

PDF.ai just crossed 40,000 signup users. A month ago, it only had 500 🚀

@ajlkn Some people luck out. And some people early are deep and playing 4 dimensional chess.

Find it amusing when a founder lucks into success then later retcons a story about how eating a burrito bowl unlocked the mysteries of the universe and inspired them to build the product we are blessed with today Like come on dude, it’s okay to admit you just lucked out

Hey 👋 reintroducing digitalbible.ca - made an AI-powered Bible a few years ago but back then there was no #ChatGPT 🤷‍♂️. So - of course I had to update this bad boy! Really cool to see something so ancient benefit from# #Ai. Enjoy!

Awesome: linkedin.com/posts/alvinfsc…

@mrgreen Bill Gates is a genius but an absolutely terrible prognosticator. Almost ever prediction he’s ever made has been stunningly, gobsmackingly wrong. His talents lie elsewhere. If he really said this it makes me reconsider my own optimism about AI.

Bill Gates says A.I. chatbots will teach kids to read within 18 months: "You’ll be ‘stunned by how it helps.’ "The AI’s will get to that ability, to be as good a tutor as any human ever could." It’s a new beginning of the education system.

@emmanuel_s @gregoryjohn @NocodeTalks It’s inconceivable that you are not on the bubble forum answering questions. Where are you? Or ANYONE from your staff?! There are sooo many legitimate questions - so so many - and you’re just rolling this out ‘for new apps’ in May?! Your silence is unconscionable!

@gregoryjohn @NocodeTalks Has the person shared more concerns? If it’s about pricing changes, we’re not changing pricing again any time soon. And the change should only impact apps with high usage pattern, esp. after yesterdays update.

Hey @emmanuel_s what should I reply to him? Its generous request... not the other way..