Lex Fridman Podcast #367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

Lex Fridman Podcast #367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies.

GPT and its latest avatar: GPT4

I think there’s a lot of quirks about me that make me not a great CEO for OpenAI, but a thing in the positive column is I think I am relatively good at not being affected by pressure for the sake of pressure.

I think that GPT-4 is a very impressive demonstration of what you can do with scale, data, and computation, but I don’t think that it’s anywhere close to AGI. I think that there are a lot of missing pieces that we still need to figure out, and I think that GPT-4 is not going to magically solve them for us.

Lessons about AI

I think that ChatGPT is a really fun and interesting product that we’re very excited about. I think that it’s a way for people to interact with AI in a very natural and engaging way, and I think that it’s a way for us to learn more about what AI can do and what AI can’t do, and what people want from AI and what people don’t want from AI.

Honestly, I barely know what “woke” means anymore. I did for a while, and I feel like the word has morphed. So I will say I think it was too biased, and will always be. There will be no one version of GPT that the world ever agrees is unbiased.

AI education

I think that AI is going to be the most powerful technology ever created, and I think that it’s going to be either the best thing that ever happened to humanity, or the worst thing that ever happened to humanity, and I don’t think there’s much middle ground.

The future of AI

AI will be the most important technology of this century, and it will enable us to solve many of the world’s problems and create new opportunities.

AI will enable many positive and transformative applications, such as in education, healthcare, entertainment, and art. AI will pose many challenges and risks, such as unemployment, inequality, warfare, and existential threats. We need to prepare for both scenarios and ensure that AI is used for good and not evil.

OpenAI: The vision, mission and goals

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