Lester Holt interviews Open AI's Sam Altman and Airbnb's Brian Chesky

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman and co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky join NBC News’ Lester Holt to talk about the benefits of artificial intelligence. The group discusses deep fakes, ChatGPT, and how AI is evolving. NBCUniversal News Group is the media partner of Aspen Ideas Festival.

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[mikemmx]

This is PR. Both are defending each other rather than themselves.

[richarddonofrio]

OpenAI was started as a non-profit company with open source code available to the public to participate in the process, void of corporate greed, and true transparency. Now we have ClosedAI, a for-profit company with closed source code only available to large corporations. We are locked out from participating in the process, corporate greed is taking over, and there is very little transparency. This interview should not convince you otherwise. Do your own research and don’t rely on these soft ball interviews from the mainstream media that rarely dig deeper to follow through on the tough questions.

[GlennGaasland]

Why are journalists so bad at asking the obvious relevant questions about AI? Most of the questions asked here have been asked and answered many times before. Hint: DATA…New data…synthetic data… «How are these new data structures being created?» Journalists never ask about this, nobody is speaking about it, and yet this will be the foundation of all future LLMs and have enormous societal impact.

[KosherKid]

Mad respect for bro keeping his composure and biting the bullet

[eSKAone-]

32:06 Sam looking very uncomfortable when Brian sniffs his coke on stage

[adamzguy]

Great job Lester, really enjoyable interview. Brian Chesky is so impressive as a design thought leader. I may not like air bnb but I really like Brian and his style of leadership, not only in his company but also apparently as thought leader for ai as well, which he is really well suited for, balancing his intellectual with his creative.

[davideos]

Airbnb kicked me off their application 4 years ago for an reason unbeknownst to me. They’re policy to ban people from this service and not consider the possibility of restoration is like something in the Middle Ages where people were jailed for life without knowing the reason why. I want my account back. I didn’t do anything to get myself banned!!!

[changemakers]

Why don’t people ask details of what exactly happened which led to the firing of Sam. A follow up question was needed

[erikalin]

I really appreciate the moral question that he asked, can we believe those people behind the AI ?

[sputnik]

What a sycophantic back and forth between Sam and Brian

[MattStrain]

Lester's question about "who gets to decide the default values?" is more critical today than ever. Around the world, we see leaders behaving in ways that would get a kindergartner sent home from school. Imagine if AI were programmed with values based on such examples. This question is essential, but we may not be able to answer it for AI until we determine how to agree on these values as humans first.

[ahsanmohammed]

Brian and Sam
I guess, Brain started AirBNB at YCombinator under Sam's guidance.
Now Brain is ahead in terms of wealth and knowledge.
He’s giving back.

[charlech]

Just a bunch of platitudes, save you time

[MoneySavingVideos]

Soon service companies like State Farm Insurance will be able to fit into a computer the size of small room run by one person. their only employee.

[tomtyiu]

Sam Altman has a positive outlook of AI but still cautious! Hopefully AI will take off as super intelligent but still be controlled!

[fildworldcomo]

How we deal with GenAI largely depends on whether we see technology as a tool, a slave or a gift. Imagine either of the three able to talk back to us, often better and faster to think than us.

[rw]

Quotes Steve Jobs: "Never make a computer, you can't throw out the window!"... Proceeds to make a computer the size of a warehouse, that might become self aware.

[ellielikesmath]

wow, it's so bad that a channel with 10 million subscribers doesn't try to get the closed captions right on their videos. no proofreading is just not acceptable here. the one i saw "Providence" vs. what he actually said which was "provenance".

[Athvoice]

Sam is an entrepreneur, so is Brian, why are we listening to these guys when it comes to the future of humanity? They are what they are, self absorbed, not philosophers or leaders of our species in the best way forward …

[michelnaime]

Glad and smart that the kid was accompanied by a big brother to answer the questions with the necessary depth.
It is both sad and scary that a kid is running openai, I hope the board is having the required oversight.