Interview With Sam Altman – Co-Founder OpenAI (ChatGPT)

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Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, gives an honest and insightful interview on AI and its impact on the future. Alman discusses the speed of transformation, the potential impact on jobs and the way we work, and what is likely to happen in the very near future. ** What make this video interesting are the discussions of the either and moral delimmas AI presents and the insights on how AI can be leverage by humanity as a tools . **

This video is slightly academic, 45 minutes long, but very insightful. Some topics covered are:

1. Optimism and the best time to start a company.
2. There is no pre-startup like pre-med.
3. Giving people capable tools and figuring our how they are going to build the future.
4. It is important to ship early and often. Put the product in people’s hands and let society tell us what to do with it. Deploy interactively. AI and surprise don’t go well.
5. What is AGI and what are the dangers?
6. Trust yourself to adapt as you go
7. How will AI effect the balance of power in the world?
8. The impact of loyalty to the mission in the success of a startup

Summary

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Altman gives advice for aspiring AI entrepreneurs and shares his insights about the opportunities and risks of AI tools and artificial general intelligence.

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The text discusses the potential of AI to shape the future and drive innovation. It emphasizes the importance of building AI infrastructure and allowing society to co-evolve with technology. The speaker believes that empowering individuals with AI tools will lead to significant advancements and positive impacts on society.

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