Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, unpacked

He controls ChatGPT. What controls him?

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[MattCampbellca]

“Are we the housekeeper cleaning up his bad ideas?” Beautiful writing, Phil.

[ITT]

So, my impression from this piece is that Sam Altman is a lot more like Elon Musk than I had previously believed. While I did know that he was a crowd-funding startup entrepreneur, I did not realize exactly how little he actually had to do with the initial development and research process of ChatGPT.

[FleshyHolipok]

OpenAI changing to a for-profit model goes against everything they built their company on, and is a slap in the face to the investors and consumers who have believed in and supported ("fell for") their vision in the beginning.

[pongusikya]

2 min into this video and I 100% hate this guy. No matter how rich you are you DO NOT litter for the housecleaning to pick up.

[ndj]

ironically Snapchat did what Loopt did & succeeded with location sharing years later

[aromaticsnail]

As a society we really need to stop giving so much power to sociopaths

[orienv]

We all know the Altman, where's Sam Mainman?

[WillJBailey]

One thing is for sure - he has absolutely no problems with industrial-scale copyright theft.

[TonyBullard]

"Please regulate us" is an old tactic in silicon valley. The well established company asks to come in and help write regulations, ensuring they have a seat at the table and they make it easy on themselves, and harder on newer startups / smaller competitors.

[yourfellowhumanbeing]

That white and black rubiks cube segment in tge video was great!

[goldie]

Extremely ready for this economic bubble to burst.

[Kanzish]

Sam screeching about abundance while joking about his maids cleaning up his trash after getting rich off an app no one used is wild

[MrCrook]

I think much of this analysis over estimates Altman. He’s a dude that is good at lying and will do just about anything for money. He’s not some enigma, he’s just a liar. He’s like Musk and like Trump where his only calculus is what can he say in this moment to get what he wants from his audience.

[Some.real.human.]

Don’t google or ask chat gpt about his sister annie

[mirceagogoncea]

Sorry to be that guy, but I think you meant: "This is Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, together with Jessica Livingston, WHO WAS ALSO A CO-FOUNDER OF Y COMBINATOR."

Yes, they were married, but she wasn't just his wife! She was his co-founder, too. PG himself claimed YC wouldn't exist without her. I highly recommend listening to her podcast, The Social Radars - probably my favorite startup podcast at the moment.

[watcher]

I don't think the videos were filmed with a potato, it's just that youtube changed the processing and so basically all old youtube uploads are extremely grainy now. They don't look now like they looked when you viewed them on youtube in 2008.

[gustavohernandeza.]

PHIL: I think (the double collar) looks pretty good!
ME: On you, yes. On him, not so much. On me, never because I don't wear shirts.

[-nomi.-]

It's really sad how little Sutskever's contribution to OpenAI was mentioned in reporting of the Altman ousting, and how OpenAI was painted as being fundamentally tied to Altman (Which may be true but not in the right ways). Possibly THE foremost AI expert more or less got gaslit for trying to put safety first.

[new-bpix]

he is the character from "the lorax" even the face the same
script :
Once-ler: What are you doing here?
Lorax: Happy yet? You fill that hole deep down inside you? Or do you still need more?
Once-ler: Look, if you've got a problem with what I'm doing, why haven't you used your quote-unquote powers to stop me?!
Lorax: I told you, that's not how it works.
Once-ler: Right, I forgot. You're a fraud. I need you to get out. Now!!!
Lorax: Why? Do I make you uncomfortable? Remind you of the promises you made? The man you used to be?
Once-ler: [To the Lorax] You know what? You can just shut your mustache! My conscience is clear. I have done nothing illegal, and I mean no harm. But I have my rights, and I intend to keep on biggering and biggering, and turning more Truffula trees in to Thneeds which everyone wants because everyone needs! And nothing, no, NOTHING is going to stop me!

Lorax: [when the last Truffula tree is chopped down] That's it. The very last one. That may stop you.

[colemanbar]

The Rubik’s cubes and notepad visuals were a brilliant touch!! Loved this video