The OpenAI board may have only taken a day or so after firing Sam Altman to figure out that they wanted him back – but it was too late.
The OpenAI board may have only taken a day or so after firing Sam Altman to figure out that they wanted him back – but it was too late. The man who has been so central to chatGPT is moving to Microsoft.
With that in mind, it’s a little bittersweet to go back and look at his comments from our interview not too long ago – at an event where Altman inspired a crowd of young people and others plugged in and interested in technology development.
Altman talked a lot about strategy and long-term management of technologies.
“People are doing pretty amazing things,” he said, citing much work on “new enablers” and saying that his company was still trying to figure out many things about evolving models.
There was also a lot of modesty, where Altman professed that “maybe there is something we’re missing” and that it would be “not good for us, but great for the world.” He suggested that people with big ideas will probably have to recalibrate them in the future, and when given several chances to promote himself as a guru for certain kinds of corporate development, he repeatedly refused.
