November 17, 2023 is a date to forget among Openai workers. The company behind Chatgpt made one of the riskiest decisions in its history: to fire its CEO, Sam Altman.
The consequences just took a few hours to arrive. Hundreds of employees They threatened Openai’s direction with giving up his position if Altman did not returnalthough not everyone lamented their departure from the company. Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics and one of the AI parents, was more than happy with this decision.
Sam Altman never liked Geoffrey Hinton
The man who has designed the first languages of AI did not hesitate to show his joy to know that the CEO had been fired from his own company. «I am particularly proud that one of my students fired Sam Altman. And I think it is better to leave it there,» said Geoffrey Hinton at that time.
Hinton referred to Ilya Sutskever, co -founder of Openai, and one of the causes of dismissal. The AI developer He had been a student of the Nobel Prize at the University of Toronto, they even collaborated in the development of Alexneta computer vision model that revolutionized the recognition of images in 2012.
Openai accused Altman of lack of communication with the management. The internal tensions were evident to the point that some members of the Board said they learned of the chatgpt launch through Twitter.
The company faced enormous media pressure and the Board ended up recovering by asking Sam Altman to return. The scandal He ended up splashing Sutskever himself, who also abandoned Openai to found his own company: Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Geoffrey Hinton criticizes that Openai ceases to be non -profit
Hinton has joined the criticisms of people like Elon Musk to Openai’s controversial decision to cease to be a non -profit company, but the reasons are very different. The Father of the AI fears that monetizing models such as GPT-4 will prioritize the satisfaction of shareholders above safety and ethical limits.
Geoffrey Hinton has the same concern as most AI experts: Artificial intelligence could advance faster than developers themselves can understand or control.
To this are added the ideological tensions that the technological sector is experiencing since the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House. Developing artificial intelligence safely and ethically has gone to the background for some Silicon Valley giants.
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