OpenAI CEO Sam Altman On The Breakthrough Potential Of AI | Forbes

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, discusses the breakthrough potential of AI for humanity with David Blundin @linkventures, Lex Fridman @lexfridman & John Werner at Imagination In Action's 'Forging the Future of Business with AI' event.

Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur, investor, and programmer. He was the co-founder of Loopt and is the current CEO of OpenAI. He was the president of Y Combinator and was briefly the CEO of Reddit. Altman invests in nuclear energy projects and technology companies.

This conversation took place on April 13th, 2023.

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[Sceptic]

I think such interviews should be conducted with Ilya

[robotick]

Altman be praised, make us whole again

[John-nqc]

The human species should enter the Age of Wisdom. Maybe that should be an AI objective.

[Learna_Hydralis]

Why the repost ? the interview already exist on YouTube.

[ganeiyer]

the off camera conversation in hushed tones is SUPER ANNOYING.

[pokwerpokwerpokwer]

this conversation is 2.4 million years old already (ok, fine, it was in April, but nearly)

[manawardhana]

Title of the video starts as “ChatGPT Creator Sam Altman”.
I don’t think he created it.

[hugopennmir]

“ChatGPT creator, Sam Altman” ? or “OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman” ?
Two very different things, he didn’t create ChatGPT, please give the credits to the right people.

[DaffodilPClimited]

I agree with Sam in that you still need to follow the proper business guidelines.

[craigstewart]

I agree with Sam in that you still need to follow the proper business guidelines. However, in terms of what the target product is, I believe it’s important to take a giant leap toward what you think is reasonably possible within the new framework. For me, I’ve seen this within video games, when there is a big platform a shift, many of the losers are still chasing the old goals, and the winners find the new capabilities that are not obvious until they are in hindsight.

[BryanCleaver]

Excellent. Especially Sam's overview of the number of parameters, starting with GPT2.

[leif]

What doesn't he share at 6:54 and why doesn't he share it?

[cohan]

"We're not training GPT-5 right now"
He didn't say they weren't working on it. In fact, the actual training process only takes a few days. What takes time is prepearing the training data

[shivakumarv]

Every field has a unique way of learning and understanding. For example religious scripture, startergird of defence and offence or management

[csmith]

Wow, was that Stephan Wolfram like just like hanging out in the audience there or was he another speaker at this event?

[shivakumarv]

Does AI machines play sports and are in competition with each other from different companies?

[TrippSaaS]

The audio at the end made it difficult to hear what he was saying.

[s.m.yt.bh.s]

From video, working on AI, some guidelines for all:
Never loose site of vision and focus and vision on long term. But a very tight feedback loop on what is working and what in not working and doing more stuff of what is working and less of what is not working and very very careful user observation can go super far

Why CGPT successed?
Beig on ground for long time and sweating every details, most people aren't willing to do that

[shivakumarv]

What about AI specialist in science, philosophy, law, psychology, military science, business and religion? Instead of general AI

[kevinnugent]

Guys whispering to each other in the background like, "New AI video with even more schizophrenia!!"