{"id":121208,"date":"2023-11-20T07:02:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/20\/sam-altmans-attempt-to-return-as-openai-ceo-fails-as-board-turns-to-ex-twitch-ceo\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T07:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:02:19","slug":"sam-altmans-attempt-to-return-as-openai-ceo-fails-as-board-turns-to-ex-twitch-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/20\/sam-altmans-attempt-to-return-as-openai-ceo-fails-as-board-turns-to-ex-twitch-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman\u2019s Attempt to Return as OpenAI CEO Fails as Board Turns to ex-Twitch CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Shear cofounded livestreaming platform Twitch, which sold to Amazon for nearly $1 billion in 2014. He stepped down as CEO in March, ending a 16 year run at Twitch, citing the birth of his first child. Shear moved in some of the same Silicon Valley circles as the CEO whose shoes he must now fill. In 2011, Shear and Altman both were named part-time partners at the same time for the startup incubator Y Combinator, which Altman later on went on to lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Shear is a self-described techno-optimist, but has expressed deep fears of a rogue sentient AI. \u201cThis is not a figure it out later thing, this like is a big fucking problem,\u201d he said on the Logan Bartlett podcast in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Chase, a longtime Twitch spokesperson now at StreamElements who goes by one name, described Shear as \u201ca good fit to helm OpenAI given his passion for benefitting the many over the few, as he illustrated with Twitch coupled with his concerns about the potential for AI to be dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shock Departure<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The story of Altman\u2019s ousting and quick return raises questions about OpenAI\u2019s governance and long-term prospects. The structure that enabled a small number of people without ties to the company to decide Altman\u2019s fate, originally intended to keep OpenAI\u2019s technology beneficial to humanity, has come under new scrutiny. Some investors previously expressed concern about the nonprofit board\u2019s lack of corporate experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The saga also points to a schism in the tech industry between those who see generative AI like ChatGPT as a technology to be exploited commercially, and those who worry about the risks of pushing the boundaries on something that has proven both powerful and unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">News of Altman\u2019s exit blindsided investors who have spent billions of dollars bankrolling OpenAI\u2019s research. Microsoft, a key partner that has pledged $13 billion in funding and provided vast cloud computing resources, led a push, among other investors, to have Altman reinstated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Altman founded OpenAI in 2015 with Brockman, Elon Musk, and a small crew of top AI researchers. Their goal was to create an open, nonprofit AI entity as a counterpoint to the profit-motivated likes of Google. The organization would work on developing superhuman AI with the goal of benefiting all of humanity rather than a few powerful tech companies and their shareholders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shear cofounded livestreaming platform Twitch, which sold to Amazon for nearly $1 billion in 2014. He stepped down as CEO in March, ending a 16 year run at Twitch, citing the birth of his first child. Shear moved in some of the same Silicon Valley circles as the CEO whose shoes he must now fill. 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