Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI and one of the authors of ChatGPT was fired.
Wow!
On Friday, the board of the company met and decided that it was no longer possible to trust the manager, and he should be immediately fired. That was done.
OpenAI investors, among them Microsoft is the largest one, received the news without enthusiasm and called the board’s decision "madness". Board in the best conspiracy traditions refused to comment.
Altman’s dismissal was perhaps the most discussed issue in the world this weekend. Usually executives of large companies are dismissed by this way in cinema-thrillers only, in real life, corporate ethics suggests some other approaches. Consequently, it can be assumed that the reason for the dismissal was extremely serious.
I was expecting the real reason for the dismissal will be disclosed in this weekend, but it didn’t happen, so the intrigue persists.
Now the term "Artificial Intelligence" is firmly in use. I think it is still too early to talk about AI, it is still a neural network. The neural network learns by browsing an almost infinite number of Internet pages. And that worries me tremendously.
Imagine a child being raised ONLY on information from the Internet. He listens to bloggers' advice, follows abuse on social networks... Do you have any idea how traumatic the child would get and how morally distorted he is.
Today, the neural network performs technical functions and, at least, does not yet express an opinion. So far, this is not an opinion based on beliefs, but a compilation of information collected from different sources. But what will happen tomorrow?
Amid apocalyptic speculation about the imminent replacement of humanity with artificial intelligence, Altman’s dismissal is ominous. I’m looking forward to some clarification.
