OpenAI stunned the world with the release of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), the world’s most impressive language-generating AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins Azeem Azhar to reflect on the huge attention generated by GPT-3 and what it heralds for the future research and development toward the creation of a true artificial general intelligence (AGI).

They also explore:

How AGI could be used both to reduce and exacerbate inequality.
How governance models need to change to address the growing power of technology companies.
How Altman’s experience leading Y Combinator informed his leadership of OpenAI.

Further reading:

“The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world” (Wired, 2020)
“Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny” (New Yorker, 2016)
“Governance in the Age of AI” (Exponential View Podcast, 2019)
“Trillions of Words Analyzed, OpenAI Sets Loose AI Language Colossus” (Bloomberg, 2020)
“OpenAI’s Text Generator Is Going Commercial” (WIRED, 2020)

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