Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects
Aug 18, 2023
Bob McGrew, VP of Research at OpenAI, discusses GPT-4 and the upcoming GPT-5, biases in ChatGPT and how they are corrected, breakthroughs in AGI, the early days of Palantir, AI's moment, and important research projects at OpenAI. They also discuss the potential of GPT-8 for humanity and the need for Large Language Models to move beyond mimicking humans to higher forms of intelligence and creativity.
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McGrew's Impact on Palantir
- Bob McGrew joined Palantir early and helped shape the company's engineering and product.
- Peter Thiel was impressed by McGrew's decision to join, bolstering Palantir's funding.
Building for Spies
- Palantir's initial challenge was understanding the needs of the intelligence community, their clients.
- The secrecy and communication style of the intelligence community made it difficult to gather requirements.
Perseverance at Palantir
- Palantir's early engineers faced uncertainty and almost quit after three years of development.
- McGrew convinced a key engineer to stay, leading to the crucial security system deployment.