What the Heck Is Going On At OpenAI?
The exit of OpenAI‘s chief technology officer Mira Murati announced on Sept. 25 has set Silicon Valley tongues wagging that all is not well in Altmanland — especially since sources say she left because she’d given up on trying to reform or slow down the company from within. Murati was joined in her departure from the high-flying firm by two top science minds, chief research officer Bob McGrew and researcher Barret Zoph (who helped develop ChatGPT). All are leaving for no immediately known opportunity. Related Stories Business OpenAI Raises $6.6B in Massive Funding Round Business OpenAI Training Data to Be Inspected in Authors' Copyright Cases
The drama is both personal and philosophical — and goes to the heart of how the machine-intelligence age will be shaped.
