You are witnessing the final stages in the evolution of OpenAI from a messianic hype machine to Yet Another Product Company.

Hence all the people leaving, too.

I am ootl, employees are leaving openai?

> John Schulman, one of the co-founders of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, has left the ChatGPT maker for rival Anthropic, he said in a post on social media platform X late Monday.

> OpenAI's President and co-founder Greg Brockman is also taking a sabbatical through the end of the year, he said in a X post late Monday.

> Peter Deng, a vice-president of product, also left in recent months, a spokesperson said. And earlier this year, several members of the company’s safety teams exited.

That's after co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever left in May.

Some employees quitting in a 1500 people company? Impossible. Any departure must be interpreted as the doom of openai, there's no other possibility.

slightly different signal when 'some employees' leave vs. when multiple founders leave

Sometimes people move on to new projets after almost ten years...

Are there any co-founders left?

sam Altman for one.

I mean it’s not groundbreaking, but it makes it much easier to make simple AI tools that aren’t chat-based. It definitely has me interested.

GPT-4 has been so mind-blowingly cool, but most of the interesting applications I can think of involve 10 steps of “ok now make sure GPT has actually formatted the question as a list of strings… ok now make sure GPT hasn’t responded with a refusal to answer the question…”

Idk what the deal is with their weird hype persona thing, but I’m stoked about this release

AGI is useless if you can't figure out how to employ it as part of a system, instead of just chit chat

Yeah, definitely a way to end up with a Siri like mess if you do this long enough. The use case is there and it’s going to be very useful, but the magic is wearing off.