Sam Altman is back as CEO, Mira Murati as CTO and Greg Brockman as President. OpenAI has a new initial board. Messages from
@sama
and board chair
@btaylor
On Friday I joined my last
@MiddeskHQ
weekly wrap-up. It's sad to part ways and I'm going to really miss that amazing team.
But, I couldn't resist the call of a new startup adventure! I'm off to start "something new"... and I could not be more hyped 💥
Salute and congratulations to the 710 plus
@OpenAI
team members who gave an unparalleled demonstration of loyalty, love and commitment to
@sama
and
@gdb
in these perilous times it was a thing of beauty to witness.
Salute 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂
I wouldn't be surprised if over the next 3-4 quarters we see absolutely ridiculous throughput from the OpenAI team
Never underestimate the transformative power of making it through a crisis together
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.
We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
A note to
@OpenAI
developers 🫶:
I wanted to express my appreciation for all the warm, thoughtful, and supportive messages I got and I’ve seen posted across the community.
Despite a moment of uncertainty, our commitment to developers remained steadfast.
In the meantime,
This week on Trust the Process, we sat down with the amazing
@willsab
and learned how
@MiddeskHQ
leverages ops to enable their business identity APIs.
An exciting story about how great ops design is core to API-based businesses.
In case it isn’t clear: all of our services (i.e. our API and ChatGPT) are still being actively maintained and monitored. Folks have actually stepped up to ensure duplicate on-call coverage during this time to make sure the customer experience is still stable and reliable.
It's wild to me how I went from loving 1Password (how convenient, secure, and useful for my whole family!) to borderline hating it (wow I've literally signed in to my account via Chrome plugin 62 times today!)
Such a dramatic swing in my sentiment in such a short period of time
@joshelman
At Checkr I’ve signed up for and studied countless gig economy services. The effects of good onboarding are no joke; user churn can be material, and even more important when you consider what it costs you to get that user in the first place.
@aashaysanghvi_
Hard agree. Excel is a perfectly fine solution for tons of problems and processes out there. When the scale, complexity, or number of people involved in the process starts hurting, though, then let's talk product
Really excited to host our first developer conference in a few months. (And on my birthday, no less!)
There are so many exciting things cooking and I can't wait to see what people build with us.
NEW: analysis of millions of books published over the centuries suggests western society is shifting away from a culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion.
I think this is one of the most important challenges facing us today.
We're still so early in figuring out how we can best leverage on-demand cognition for critical and important work. Excited to share this use case and impact with the world
We’ve seen great results using GPT-4 for content policy development and content moderation, enabling more consistent labeling, a faster feedback loop for policy refinement, and less involvement from human moderators. Built on top of the GPT-4 API:
@dflieb
Clay () does a pretty good job at this (including even text exchanges if you elect to grant that access), but it’s a full blown Mac app instead of an extension
It's surprising how my computing habits have changed with an ultraintelligent assistant with eyes in my pocket
Ask a question of the world around me, immediately get an answer or brief conversation, and move on
A subtle shift away from the ocean of SEO and YouTube links
ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak. Rolling out over next two weeks, Plus users will be able to have voice conversations with ChatGPT (iOS & Android) and to include images in conversations (all platforms).
@eriktorenberg
I just closed a doc where I wrote down my biggest accomplishments over the last year and a half at Checkr, just for posterity. I almost surprised myself with the output. It's crazy how much every day, every week compounds
we are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support this weekend and today from our incredible customers. throughout and going forward, our customers remain our top priority. our products and platform are operational and secure, and our engineering, support, and GTM teams will
@dmongan
@nachkari
@TheDerrickLi
@BrennerSpear
I’d assume the path to rebuilding WSS and its competitors is longer and messier than one might think, and might not necessarily yield a venture backable business, but you never know 🙃
Midjourney, DALL•E 3 and GPT-4 have opened a world of endless possibilities.
I just coded "Angry Pumpkins 🎃" (any resemblance is purely coincidental 😂) using GPT-4 for all the coding and Midjourney / DALLE for the graphics.
Here are the prompts and the process I followed:
@pzakin
Having seen this up-close in a few places I'd have to say Google Sheets and something like LucidChart. The stuff that gets too painful to manage with simple tools eventually gets productized somehow (or should)
@shyamalanadkat
Stated differently, once users are over the novelty of AI for AI’s sake, builders can home in on the real, big opportunities
You got iBeer before you got Uber
@sarthakgh
I believe this is what Zillow Rental Manager helps with? Not just the initial application but the credit screen + background check on the back end
As the day wore on, I accepted that this newsletter had not been caused by any sort of glitch but rather by human error, and that I was one of the humans responsible for the error.