Open AI’s Messy First Birthday Party

John and Glen dive into the mysterious, fascinating and perhaps still ongoing Open AI governance saga, dissecting the role of concepts like effective altruism, artificial general intelligence, reinforcement learning and board responsibility (There’s a credit union tie-in, we promise.). Also, John’s special offer to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.    
 
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Glen’s blog post detailing more of the board room background: https://www.big-fintech.com/Media?p=detangling-openais-palace-intrigue
Wikipedia’s Open AI entry (note the 2015-19 history): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI 
Harvard Business Review’s postmortem on Open AI’s “failed governance model”: https://hbr.org/2023/11/openais-failed-experiment-in-governance 
The Australia Financial Review’s profile of the Open AI board that dismissed Sam Altman: https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/firing-squad-the-openai-board-members-who-sacked-sam-altman-20231123-p5emcd  
Open AI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever’s TED Talk on Artificial General Intelligence, delivered 3-4 weeks before the management meltdown: https://www.ted.com/talks/ilya_sutskever_the_exciting_perilous_journey_toward_agi 
Hard Fork’s interview with Sam Altman two days before he was fired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdXr1PHFPo 
Have I Been Trained?- a site flagging unauthorized use of proprietary material for AI training: https://haveibeentrained.com/ 
Replay of our CU Town Hall where John takes stock of the fintech advancements of the past decade- and compare them to his 2015 predictions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEDal_gbFxY  
 
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