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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily. Today, the surprise ouster of Sam Oldman as CEO of Open AI, the fallout that it triggered, |
0:19.7 | and what it all means for the future of the transformational technology at the center of the boardroom drama. |
0:28.0 | I speak with my colleague technology reporter, Caid Metz. It's... |
0:34.0 | It's Wednesday, November 22nd. |
0:45.0 | Okay, good morning. |
0:47.0 | Okay, good morning. |
0:54.3 | Good morning. |
0:55.3 | Thank you for making time for us. |
0:57.1 | We are now several days into a corporate drama that has consumed the world that you cover Silicon Valley and that remains |
1:06.7 | pretty head spinning and a very fluid situation. |
1:10.7 | Absolutely. I mean, corporate dramas can be interesting, but never this interesting. |
1:16.8 | They're not supposed to be this interesting. It's supposed to be a bit more boring. |
1:20.1 | That's right. So in the simplest possible terms what happened |
1:24.7 | Sam Altman the chief executive of open AI the company that Wowed millions of people late last year with the debut of ChatGPT, an online |
1:37.2 | chatbot that can answer questions, generate term papers, write poetry, even write its own computer code, |
1:46.0 | has been ousted from that company by the company's own board. |
1:52.0 | A boardroom coup is... the company's own board. |
1:52.8 | A boardroom coup is how we used to refer to that |
1:56.4 | when I was a business reporter. |
1:57.8 | Yes, and the stakes are artificial intelligence of a level that most people even in the industry |
2:06.0 | did not expect to arrive this soon. |
2:09.0 | This is powerful technology that is already changing the way disinformation is spread across |
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