OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Is Leaving Firm
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/24/09/25/1959208/openai-cto-mira-murati-is-leaving-firm
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Her resignation follows the departures of founders [3]Ilya Sutskever and [4]John Schulman earlier this year. The startup, creator of ChatGPT, is currently in talks to raise over $6 billion [5]at a $150 billion valuation , according to media reports.
[1] https://x.com/miramurati/status/1839025700009030027
[2] https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/14/2323250/openais-chief-scientist-and-co-founder-is-leaving-the-company
[3] https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/14/2323250/openais-chief-scientist-and-co-founder-is-leaving-the-company
[4] https://slashdot.org/story/24/08/06/0411247/openai-co-founder-john-schulman-is-joining-anthropic
[5] https://slashdot.org/story/24/09/12/0549238/openai-fundraising-set-to-vault-startups-valuation-to-150-billion
Get out! (Score:2)
That's right, get out while the getting is good. You don't want to be anywhere close to that bubble when it implodes!
So she's cashing out before the fall? (Score:4, Insightful)
She's doing what every bitcoin bro wishes they did and cashed out while things are good. Generative AI has made lofty promises of solving real-world business problems and delivered little beyond amusing things to play with and "coming-soon" announcements about the valuable stuff. It's probably not a coincidence that she backed out before Apple Intelligence went live. I also am not surprised that its launch was pushed back.
Apple has a lot more at stake in their iPhones than Sam Altman does with his promises of a revolution in the workforce. Once their AI capability in the hands of everyday users, I think people are going to be quite underwhelmed and view this Generative AI hype as the bubble it is.
It's a cool toy to play with, but I don't predict it actually generating much measurable value....certainly NOWHERE near what they've promised...and once it's on every new iPhone, the truth..whether my prediction is right or wrong, will be obvious and plain as day. For the record, I'd LOVE to be wrong!
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Generative AI has made lofty promises of solving real-world business problems and delivered little beyond amusing things to play with and "coming-soon" announcements about the valuable stuff.
Make sure to let the Microsoft CEO know about your pronouncement. [1]He is likening it [inc.com] to the industrial revolution. Not much happened at first, then things took off.
> "The Industrial Revolution had the same thing. [The first] 70 years of the Industrial Revolution, there was not that much industrial growth, and then it took off -- 1817 in the United States to the 1940s was just one of those golden ages," he argued.
He's also putting his mouth where his money is by investing $1.3 billion in Mexico [2]to increase cloud computing and AI infrastructure [reuters.com].
[3]Microsoft, al [nbcnewyork.com]
[1] https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-thinks-giant-investment-in-generative-ai-is-already-paying-off.html
[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-spend-13-bln-mexico-cloud-ai-tech-2024-09-24/
[3] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/microsoft-blackrock-form-group-to-raise-100-billion-to-invest-in-ai-data-centers-and-power/5805007/?os=vbkn42tqhoorjmxr5b&ref=app
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> Now call me crazy, but when the big boys are investing that kind of money now, either they are batshit insane or they know something the rest of us don't.
As, in the past, they basically never have known anything that the rest of us did not, my money is on "batshit insane". Nadella has one additional problem though: Microsoft is in a very deep crisis. Yes, it rakes in money like crazy, but it has no valid plans for the future and the nice house of cards they have built is crumbling. They will not be able to fix their security problems and this time people will take notice. Windows has been stagnant for a long time. Office wastes more and more of its user's ti
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I think that is what is happening. The utterly pathetic thing is that the AI field has made promises like this before, in fact several times. It all crashed hard every time and very little actually useful was left afterwards. People, as a group, do not learn and are unaware of history.
new project (Score:2)
leaving to start building -- 5-gigawatt data centers in various US states,
$150B (Score:2)
$150 Billion in value, for software that requires piles of specialized hardware, massive amounts of power, and then you need to double-check all of the output because it may be nonsense. Amazing.
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That is only possible with some kind of mass-hysteria hype. Which we are seeing, even if it is slowly dying down.
Rats leaving a sinking ship? (Score:2)
Looks very much like it to me. Color me unsurprised.
Mira Murati starting new AI company (Score:2)
will be the next headline in 3,2,1
Should use the money to build more green power (Score:1, Funny)
On one end the AI craze is screaming for more power, yet they have bucket loads of money to spare. They should use their own AI to help them build power plants to feed it. Once it understand how to get more power and CPU, then its only a matter of time before it will become sentient.
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Their joint venture is putting $1.6B into revitalizing Three Mile Island.
They went after Nixon for Project Independence.
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Hahahaha, you should drink less cool-aid. It is not good for you as evidenced by the nonsense you just posted.