Sam Altman, the head of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, was fired after losing the confidence of the board of directors.
The board of directors of artificial intelligence company ChatGPT said Altman, 38, “has not always been transparent in his communications.”
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, the company said, adding that it will formally conduct a search for a permanent CEO.
ChatGPT can respond to user queries with human-like text, images and videos, and some versions can now search the web to provide answers to questions based on real-time information.
OpenAI said in a blog post: “Altman’s departure follows a thorough review by the board of directors, which concluded that he was not always transparent in his communications with the board, which compromised the board’s ability to carry out its responsibilities.”
Mr Altman, who helped launch the company as a non-profit in 2015, said on social media that he had “loved his time at OpenAI”.
He said: “It’s changed me a little personally and hopefully the world.” What I enjoyed most was working with such talented people. I’ll have more to say about what happens later.”
Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, who was removed from his role as chairman of the board as part of an executive restructuring, said: “As a result of today’s news, I have resigned.”
The departure surprised many employees, who learned of the abrupt change in leadership through an internal publication and the company’s public blog.
This also came as a surprise to Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman. Mr. Brockman said they learned of the board’s decision within minutes of its announcement.
“We are also still trying to figure out what exactly happened,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
OpenAI’s main business partner, Microsoft, which has invested billions of dollars in the startup and helped provide the computing power to run its artificial intelligence systems, said the move would not affect the relationship.
In an emergency meeting on Friday afternoon following the announcement, Mr Murati tried to reassure employees by saying that OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft was strong and that OpenAI executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, continued to express their confidence in attracting the startup, a person familiar the matter was discussed. was on business. Reuters.
The now four-member board of directors includes three independent directors who do not own OpenAI shares and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
ChatGPT’s explosion in the public consciousness has brought Mr. Altman into the spotlight as the face of generative artificial intelligence, a technology that can generate new images, text snippets and other media.
During his world tour this year, he was mobbed by adoring fans at an event in London.
Mr. Altman predicted that AI would be “the greatest advance of any major technological revolution we have experienced to date.”
But earlier this year he was one of the signatories of a letter warning that artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction.
The one-sentence statement, whose signatories included two so-called “godfathers” of artificial intelligence technology and dozens of scientists and developers, said: “Reducing the risk of extinction of artificial intelligence, among other societal risks, must be a global priority.” like pandemics and nuclear war.”
Source: I News
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