Sam Altman isn't the brains in OpenAI, it is the research scientists and engineers. Just take care of the rest of the company and let these geniuses do what they do, thats the role for the ceo.

Good CEO leadership is critical... otherwise you end up with Google and an inability to deliver on any ML project.

i was replying more to "the ceo doesn't have AI/ML experience"

Sam worked with Andrew Ng at Stanford on ML: https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg/status/1699808792047960540 / https://archive.is/pJiF7

Sam studied at Stanford for a year

oh 100%, but you need someone to steer the ship in the right direction.

This is a bit tangential but I feel like the meat of this notion is often misattributed.

“You need someone to steer the ship in the right direction.”

I think most people can handle the “right direction” part, so it really comes down to just needing _a person_, one person, who makes strategic decisions at a high level. And that’s it. I don’t think Sam is special here. I just think he was the guy in the spot.

> Just take care of the rest of the company

Not many people can do that though

It strange - they could easily have done this with a different timeline and framed it as taking the company to the next level. Growing how fast they are definitely will require completely different leadership than when they were small.

Definitely smells of a scandal - why else would they need to get him out so quick?

Ilya Sutskever is the AI prodigy, not Sam. And he is one of the board members that presumably voted to fire Altman.

What prior ML/AI experience does Sam have?