OpenAI CEO Greg Brockman’s decision to quit his role as a tech celebrity and the driving force behind AI: How much AI is needed for AI?
The statement says Greg Brockman will step down from his position as chair of the company’s board. No reason was given for Brockman’s change in position.
A company statement says that a review “concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.” Mira Murati, previously OpenAI’s chief technology officer, was appointed interim CEO while OpenAI searches for a full-time replacement, the statement says.
The surprising capabilities of ChatGPT, such as solving complex puzzles and handling questions that appear to require human-like reasoning, stunned AI researchers, amazed the public, and triggered an arms race among big tech companies to build more powerful AI. The bot turned into a tech celebrity and world leaders consulted on the future path of artificial intelligence.
The technology would be beneficial, according to the man, who said that it was his life’s work from childhood. He said this technology will be the most beneficial he has ever invented.
He said that there was a path to self-destruction for the species right now. We need new technology if we want to grow into something that lasts hundreds, thousands and millions of years.
Mira Murati is a person. My background is in engineering, and I worked in aerospace, automotive, VR, and AR. Both in my time at Tesla [where she shepherded the Model X], and at a VR company [Leap Motion] I was doing applications of AI in the real world. I very quickly believed that AGI would be the last and most important major technology that we built, and I wanted to be at the heart of it. At the time, there was only one organisation that was incentivized to work on the capabilities of the technology and make sure it goes well. When I joined in 2018, I began working on our supercomputing strategy and managing a couple of research teams.
GPT-3: Translating Italian, Albanian, and English: How did you go from a pure nonprofit to a for-profit entity?
There are so many big-deal moments, it’s hard to remember. We live in the future, and we see crazy things every day. GPT-3 could translate, but I don’t remember it. I speak several languages including Italian, Albanian, and English. I created English and Italian writing Prompts. We never trained it to translate in Italian, but it could do it quite well.
You were at OpenAI early enough to be there when it changed from a pure nonprofit to reorganizing so that a for-profit entity lived inside the structure. What did you think about that?
It was done with a lot of care and thought. You need to deploy our models at a scale to understand how to make them better. That costs a lot of money. It is necessary for you to have a plan because your donors won’t give billions like investors would. I’m not sure if there is any other structure like this. It was important to protect the mission of the nonprofit.
Sutskever’s Report on Brockman’s ‘Self-Tasted’ Post and OpenAI’s Response to The Information
Brockman’s post claimed that Altman was told he was being fired by Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board. Several accounts from inside the company suggest that a disagreement happened due to the company’s direction and its ability to build more capable artificial intelligence safety.
According to a report in The Information, Sutskever told the employees that the board’s duty was to make sure OpenAI builds AGI that benefits everyone.
Openai did not provide any more comment on the situation. Neither Brockman, nor Sutskever responded to requests for comment. Inquiries about the three researchers who quit went unanswered.