Majority of OpenAI staff threaten to quit
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.4 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:07.4 | This edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday the 21st of November. |
| 0:11.2 | Nearly all the employees at the chat geepte create a open AI |
| 0:15.3 | threatened to resign over the sacking of their boss. This is a family. They have |
| 0:20.3 | created something nobody has ever created before. This is not a normal tech company. |
| 0:24.6 | This is an advancement for all of humanity no matter how you want to look at it. |
| 0:30.1 | Another hospital in Gaza has become caught up in the fighting with 12 people reported killed. |
| 0:36.0 | And the UN says the world is on course for a catastrophic warming, even if countries meet their |
| 0:41.2 | current pledges to cut emissions. |
| 0:43.2 | Also in the podcast, Argentina's next president promises radical change, but can he deliver? |
| 0:51.6 | And... Just when you thought the Toronto rental market couldn't get any worse it did I present to you shared bedroom in a lake facing downtown condo condo for $900 a month. |
| 1:04.0 | The growth of bed sharing as a solution to rising rents. |
| 1:08.0 | Much has been made of the potential of artificial intelligence to disrupt |
| 1:16.6 | everything from health care to banking to politics, but the recent chaos at Open |
| 1:21.7 | AI, the firm behind ChGPT has a very human face. |
| 1:26.5 | First came the shock-sacking of co-founder Sam Altman on Friday. |
| 1:30.6 | Then there were reports the firm was under pressure from investors like |
| 1:33.6 | Microsoft to take him back. Instead it was announced that Sam Altman and his |
| 1:38.0 | open AI co-founder Greg Brockman would be joining Microsoft itself. Now we know that 735 of the 770 staff at |
| 1:48.0 | Open AI have signed a letter threatening to resign. Matt Schlich is CEO of Octane AI and a friend of |
| 1:55.4 | Sam Altman. I think that the majority of these people will quit. They love Sam. |
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