Key Points
Maureen Dowd of The New York Times writes of a Twilight Zone episode (nyti.ms/413XeOe) in which aliens who have recently landed on earth give world leaders a book to signal their intention for peace and cooperation..
The OpenAI board must have been watching this episode when it suddenly and inexplicably decided to dismiss the companys charismatic founder-CEO Sam Altman in a half-hour of frenzied activity..
Another outrageous theory was that Sam and team had actually discovered AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), and the board was shaken by the implications, leading to Altmans instant dismissal; a new development called Q Star (sounding dangerously like QAnon) was named as that AGI!.
The rest is well known: Altman was back as CEO in five days, not least due to a masterstroke played by Microsoft to hire him and extend an open offer to the rest of OpenAIs 700 employees, with 95% of them threatening to accept it..
The company twisted itself into a pretzel-like corporate structure, enabling it to raise billions of dollars from Microsoft and attain a valuation placed at $86 billion, while simultaneously claiming to build AGI for the good of humanity and not necessarily for economic gain..
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