Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Chief Scientist, speaks at Tel Aviv College on June 5, 2023. (credit score: Getty Photos)
On Friday, OpenAI fired CEO Sam Altman in a shock transfer that led to the resignation of President Greg Brockman and three senior scientists. The transfer additionally blindsided key investor and minority proprietor Microsoft, reportedly making CEO Satya Nadella livid. As Friday evening wore on, stories emerged that the ousting was possible orchestrated by Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever over considerations concerning the security and pace of OpenAI’s tech deployment.
“This was the board doing its responsibility to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to be sure that OpenAI builds AGI that advantages all of humanity,” Sutskever instructed staff at an emergency all-hands assembly on Friday afternoon, as reported by The Data.
Since its founding, OpenAI has pursued the event of synthetic common intelligence (or AGI), which is a hypothetical know-how that will be capable to carry out any mental activity a human can do, probably changing a lot of people at their jobs.
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