Episode 67 - What’s next for Open AI (and the return of CEO Sam Altman)?

Some stories around tech are entirely too predictable because, well… there are humans involved and at the end of the day there’s just only so many ways for us to try and on-up each other. That said, when the story starts to involve a nonprofit, a holding company, a very much for-profit company, a multi-trillion dollar investor, and the whole thing revolve around the future of Artificial Intelligence… well… that’s a cocktail of Unpredictability that boggles the mind…

And shockingly, that’s exactly what we’ve gotten over the last 96 hours or-so as its relates to its former Board, current Board, former CEO, and current CEO that, oh by the way, happen to be the same person…

AI as a whole is obviously the story of the day, as can be seen in our last two weeks of topics alone… yet as visionary, industry changing, and quite possibly terrifying as the future of AI is, there are still humans at the core of its development. Humans and their own views on what’s right or wrong, good or evil, or heck just smart or stupid… 

The last few days have been a whirlwind, and not to cheat ahead but I genuinely believe this story is far from over, but regardless we’re going to dive in and at least start to unravel the players, the chess moves, and both the near and long-term implications of how this appears to be playing out…

Hold on tight, cause this is a bumpy one…