Sam Altman Fired From OpenAI CEO Position, Just Because Communication Is Not Consistent

Sam Altman and Microsoft boss Satya Nadella. (photo: microsoft)

JAKARTA - Artificial intelligence may be known for being able to produce human-like images from scratch, but if the software has a public face, it belongs to Sam Altman.

Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, who last year created a sensation by introducing ChatGPT, has presented himself as a witch well behind a technology curtain that is widely said to be able to shake the entire industry and even humanity itself.

However, on Friday, November 17, a diligent Altman had to face his sacking after the OpenAI board, in a shocking move, withdrew his title as CEO and his position as director. He was sacked!

The director of the company, which is now worth around 80 billion US dollars (Rp1,234 trillion), said its failure to "consistent in communicating" was the reason for the dismissal.

More details about what ultimately led to Altman's dismissal not immediately brightened on Friday.

i love the openai team so much

— Sam Altman (@sama) November 19, 2023

i love the openai team so much

The company guarantees employees that they will be fine without Altman, but this Silicon Valley star, who has led the well-known startup incubator YCombinator, or YC, is leaving the company with great needs to fill in fundraising efforts. The reason is that keeping software requires huge and real costs. It also requires talented engineers, who flock to Altman.

Altman, 38, remains excited until the end of his term at OpenAI. He was seen mixed with baur with participants at an artificial intelligence conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, November 16 and the next day speaking in a panel with a leading Meta executive at the ongoing APEC forum in San Francisco, while the board is considering its future.

In a post on his X rival Elon Musk's intelligence rival on Friday, he said about OpenAI: "I love working with talented people like this. There will be more to be said about what will happen next."

Altman is admitted to have almost alone managed to convince Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to invest 10 billion US dollars (Rp. 154 trillion) into the company and lead the company's tender bid transaction this year which pushed up a valuation nearly three times from USD 29 billion to more than USD 80 billion.

Aura Altman has also helped draw talent for artificial intelligence engineering into what may be the most competitive market in the technology circle over the years. He managed to recruit from Google, Microsoft, and other major tech companies with more definite pay packages, pledging to let them enter early in the world-changing technology.

The technology has since raised concerns about the apocalypse scenario where software takes over the world, steals intellectual property without punishment, and makes secondary education a hotbed of cheating or even unnecessary. But Altman said at an event last Thursday that "strict regulations" were not needed for a while.

"At a time when the model can produce equivalent results from the entire company, and then the whole country, and then the whole world," such rules would help," he said.

Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Stanford for one year, marking certain traditions among tech titles that drop out of college before getting their titles. In addition to his efforts with OpenAI, he started this year's cryptocurrency company scanning human slices for verification, Worldcoin.

Altman's "moonshot" ethos are likely to be suitable among ambitious engineers who have worked hard for a blue-chip technology company.

"As long as you're right, being understood by most people is not a weakness," Altman wrote in a blog post three years ago. "You and a small group of rebels get space to solve important issues that may not be solved."