ChatGPT之父被公司开除，剧情反转再反转，网友：硅谷版甄嬛传，太炸裂了！
ChatGPT大家都知道吧，今年可算是轰动全球，而最近，它的母公司OpenAI，出大事了，上演了一场科技界的“宫斗”大戏，吸引了全球的吃瓜群众。
2023年11月17日，OpenAI突发声明，宣布有“ChatGPT之父”之称的CEO山姆·阿尔特曼（Sam Altman）离职。然而，就在5天之后的11月22日，OpenAI又宣布，阿尔特曼将重返公司担任CEO。
好家伙！这是什么硅谷版《甄嬛传》“熹妃回宫”剧情！短短5天，到底发生了什么？咱们好好来捋一下！
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阿尔特曼被OpenAI董事会开除
时间回到上周五11月17日，山姆·阿尔特曼参加加了董事会的视频电话会议。
正是在这个会议上，OpenAI联合创始人兼首席科学家——伊尔亚·苏茨克维（Ilya Sutskever）宣布，董事会以4:2的票数，决定免除阿尔特曼的CEO职位。
伊尔亚·苏茨克维
除了阿尔特曼之外，还有另一位联合创始人格雷格·布罗克曼（Greg Brockman），也被董事会除名，但伊尔亚·苏茨克维挽留了他继续留在OpenAI。
格雷格·布罗克曼
OpenAI then published a blog post on its website announcing the firing. “Mr. Altman’s departurefollows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the post said.
OpenAI 随后在其网站上发表了一篇博文，宣布了解雇一事。博文称：“阿尔特曼先生的离职是董事会经过深思熟虑后得出的结论，他在与董事会的沟通中没有始终保持坦诚，妨碍了董事会履行职责的能力。”
“The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” The board said it had appointed chief technology officer Mira Murati asinterim CEO.
“董事会不再相信他有能力继续领导 OpenAI，”董事会表示，已任命首席技术官米拉·穆拉蒂担任临时首席执行官。
米拉·穆拉蒂
While speculation began to swirl about what the board meant by “not consistently candid in his communications,” the board declined to share further information about how or why it had come to its decision.
虽然人们开始猜测董事会所说的“他在沟通中没有始终保持坦诚”是什么意思，但董事会拒绝透露更多关于做出这一决定的信息。
Brockman announced on Twitter that he was resigningfrom the company in protest at the Board’s firing of Altman, and employee sentiment at OpenAI quickly turned against the board, along with a significant portion of the tech-focused chatter on X, formerly Twitter.
布罗克曼在 Twitter 上宣布辞职，以抗议董事会解雇阿尔特曼，OpenAI 员工的态度迅速转向反对董事会，X（前 Twitter）上以技术为主题的聊天也有很大一部分转向反对董事会。
一时之间，大家都傻了，尤其是OpenAI的员工，更是一脸懵逼：这职场，真的太刺激了！！！
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OpenAI三天换三个CEO
作为OpenAI背后最大的“金主爸爸”，微软自然也是坐不住了。现任微软公司CEO、董事长萨提亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）亲自下场，着手推动阿尔特曼重回OpenAI。
Investors, too, were angry. Microsoft was reportedly only informed of the board’s decision to fireAltman one minute before the blog post was published.
投资者也很愤怒。据报道，微软只是在博文发表前一分钟才得知董事会解雇阿尔特曼的决定。
Nadella quickly began leading efforts to have the board reinstate Altman at the company, backed up by other OpenAI investors Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures and Tiger Global Management, according to Bloomberg.
据彭博社报道，纳德拉很快开始领导董事会恢复阿尔特曼的职务，OpenAI的其他投资者茁壮资本（Thrive Capital）、科斯拉风投（Khosla Ventures）和老虎环球管理公司（Tiger Global Management）也给予了支持。
但是，关于阿尔特曼的回归谈判并不顺利，因为阿尔特曼提出：想让我回OpenAI，前提是当初炒我的人必须滚......
As talks to bring back Altman and Brockman continued late into Sunday at OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco’s Mission District, they appeared to hit an impasse.
让阿尔特曼和布洛克曼回归的谈判一直持续到周日深夜，谈判似乎陷入了僵局。
Late Sunday night, the board named former Twitch chief executive Emmett Shear as OpenAI’s new CEO, replacing Murati, an ally of Altman.
周日深夜，董事会任命前 Twitch 首席执行官埃米特·谢尔为 OpenAI 的新任首席执行官，接替奥特曼的盟友穆拉蒂。
事情发展到这一步，阿尔特曼回OpenAI的可能性似乎降到了0......吃瓜群众看得也是心惊胆战：一个公司三天换三个CEO，打工人的CPU都要烧干了。
当然阿尔特曼的就业问题，无需我们操心，作为被《时代》周刊评为“全球AI领导者”的他，肯定是被各大公司疯抢。说不定他会马上再立门户，对打OpenAI......
万万没想到，“金主爸爸”微软，出手了!
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微软重金挖角OpenAI员工
Then, Nadella announced that Microsoft would hire Altman, Brockman and other OpenAI staff into a new independent AI unit inside Microsoft, with Altman as CEO.
随后，纳德拉宣布微软将聘请阿尔特曼、布罗克曼和 OpenAI 的其他员工在微软内部成立一个新的独立人工智能部门，由阿尔特曼担任首席执行官。
OpenAI employees, who over the weekend had been engaged in a coordinated show of support for Altman and Brockman on X, began to tweet the same phrase suggesting they might leave en-masse: “OpenAI is nothing without its people.”
上周末，OpenAI 员工在 X 上对阿尔特曼和布罗克曼表示了一致的支持，他们开始在推特上发表同样的言论，暗示他们可能会集体离职：“没有员工，OpenAI 什么都不是。”
On Monday, more than 700 of the company’s roughly 800 employees signed their name to an open letter calling on the board to resign, and threatening to jump ship to Microsoft. Shortly after that, Microsoft further increased the pressure,announcingit would offer any OpenAI employee that wanted them roles within this unit for similar compensation.
本周一，该公司约 800 名员工中有 700 多人在一封公开信上签名，呼吁董事会辞职，并威胁要跳槽到微软。此后不久，微软进一步加大了压力，宣布将以类似的报酬向任何希望在该部门任职的 OpenAI 员工提供职位。
The crisis continued into Monday—the first day of a week that was meant to be a company-wide vacation for Thanksgiving, to recognize the amount of work OpenAI employees had put in over a blockbuster year. Instead, OpenAI’s offices were the center of frantic activity.
危机一直持续到周一——这一周的第一天本应是全公司的感恩节假期，以表彰OpenAI员工在过去一年里所付出的巨大努力。然而，OpenAI 的办公室却成了这场闹剧的中心。
不得不说，这剧情太drama了，这样一来，阿尔特曼就从领导OpenAI对接微软的乙方，直接变身OpenAI的“金主甲方爸爸”！
OpenAI董事会，汗流浃背了吧。
伊尔亚·苏茨克维，就是当初通知阿尔特曼被解雇的人，光速滑轨......
Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist who fired Altman, made a surprise about-face. “I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions,” he tweeted. “I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.”
解雇阿尔特曼的 OpenAI 首席科学家苏茨克维出人意料地做出了改变。他在推特上写道：“我对参与董事会的行动深表遗憾。我从未想过要伤害 OpenAI。我热爱我们共同建立的一切，我会尽我所能让公司重新团结起来。”
事情发展到这里，感觉微软真的赢麻了，是分分钟要把现在科技届的香饽饽OpenAI变成子公司的节奏啊！
也难怪有网友开始“阴谋论”：这......当初发动“宫斗”的伊尔亚·苏茨克维，该不会是微软派出的卧底吧？
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大结局：“熹妃”回宫
还没等网友们理清头绪，这场宫斗大戏再一次反转：阿尔特曼重回OpenAI，担任CEO！
By late Tuesday, the effort to reinstate Altman as OpenAI’s CEO was complete. Part of the deal included Altman agreeing to an internal investigation into the alleged lack of candor with the board that led to his firing, the Information reported.
到本周二晚些时候，让阿尔特曼重新担任 OpenAI 首席执行官的措施已经完成。据《信息报》报道，该协议的部分内容包括，阿尔特曼同意接受内部调查，调查他对董事会缺乏坦诚的指控。
Employees celebrated the news with a party at OpenAI’s offices on Tuesday night. Brockman, who returns as president, posted a selfie to X of himself smiling, accompanied by dozens of happy OpenAI employees.“We are so back,” the caption said.
周二晚上，员工们在OpenAI的办公室举行了派对，庆祝这一消息。重返总裁岗位的布洛克曼在 X 上发布了一张自拍照，照片中的他面带微笑，身边是数十名开心的 OpenAI 员工。标题写道：“我们回来了。”
随着阿尔特曼的回归，董事会换血，这场科技届“宫斗大戏”，历经百转千回，终于暂时落下帷幕。
国外网友们玩梗玩得飞起：
不知道谁是导演和编剧，但很喜欢这部剧。
山姆回来了
但谁都知道，OpenAI内部依旧暗流涌动，阿尔特曼会如何清算当初背叛自己的同事？下一次反转不知道何时会来？
今日词汇
departure / dɪˈpɑːtʃə(r) / n.背离；离开
board/ bɔːd / n.董事会，理事会
interim/ ˈɪntərɪm / adj.暂时的，过渡期间的，间歇的
resign/ rɪˈzaɪn / 辞（职），放弃（工作或职位）
fire / ˈfaɪə(r) / v.解雇，开除
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