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Sam Altman

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research company. His work focuses on the development of advanced AI systems and their societal impact.

Best podcasts with Sam Altman

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Mar 25, 2023 • 2h 28min

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

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, discusses GPT-4 and ChatGPT. Topics include AI safety, political bias, neural network size, AGI, fear, and the challenges of evaluating bias. They also explore the alignment problem in AI, the importance of security systems, and the transition of OpenAI from nonprofit to for-profit. They reflect on the dangers of AGI development and discuss the negative aspects of being a spokesperson for the AI movement. They also touch on democratic socialism, the challenges of defining truth, mismanagement in Silicon Valley bank, the power of Google search, and advice for success. The episode concludes with reflections on human civilization and the future of AI.
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Mar 18, 2024 • 2h 2min

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, discusses GPT-4, Sora, and AI development. Topics include power struggles in board dynamics, governance in AGI, training data approaches, GPT-4 impact, QStar project, nuclear energy, and the path to AGI.
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May 10, 2024 • 1h 43min

In conversation with Sam Altman

Entrepreneur and CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, discusses the future of AI, including GPT-5, advanced agents' impact on app interfaces, AI regulation, UBI in a post-AI world, and his firing and re-hiring process at OpenAI. The podcast delves into innovative tech ideas like AI-powered iPhone competitors, the future of intelligent system design, AI's impact on learning and healthcare, and navigating AI law and potential risks. The conversation also touches on board dynamics, unscripted interviews in scientific discovery, and upcoming All-In Summit announcements.
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Sep 25, 2024 • 49min

The Man Behind ChatGPT (Sam Altman Interview)

In this engaging chat, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and poetry enthusiast, dives into how writing enhances clarity and thinking. He shares personal writing insights and the transformative impact of ChatGPT on creativity. Exploring the synergy between AI and human expression, Sam discusses the evolution of writing in a tech-driven world and the vital role of communication. He also reflects on the importance of nurturing innovative ideas and the balance between digital tools and human storytelling.
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Jan 11, 2024 • 33min

Episode 6: Sam Altman

Sam Altman, leader in artificial intelligence and CEO of OpenAI, discusses advancements in AI, challenges of generating new words, risks of developing AGI, competition and scaling, and the importance of building a talented team and pursuing passions.
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Jul 26, 2024 • 1h 39min

Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG

Wiz, a tech industry disruptor, shares why he turned down Google's $23B acquisition offer, aiming for an IPO instead. Sam Altman dives into the surprising results of his Universal Basic Income study, revealing its mixed effects on motivation and well-being. Sacks addresses a smear campaign against him, shedding light on accountability in the tech world. They also discuss Kamala Harris's potential rise to the Democratic nomination and China's nuclear advancements, urging a reevaluation of U.S. policies in the global energy race.
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Sep 29, 2022 • 57min

HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman

Artificial Intelligence was once the realm of science fiction. But over the last several years, advances in machine learning and deep neural networks have moved us closer to a reality where computers can learn and solve problems independently, the way a human does. From art and music to medicine and politics, the potential applications of AI are nearly endless, and the technology just keeps getting better.This week on How I Built This Lab, Guy talks with one of the leaders in the field of AI development, Sam Altman. Sam talks about his journey from Stanford dropout and teenage entrepreneur to president of the legendary startup incubator Y Combinator and co-founder of the nonprofit OpenAI. Plus, Sam shares his hopes and fears for the future of AI and how his company is working to ensure it ultimately benefits all of humanity.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Nov 4, 2024 • 40min

20VC: Sam Altman on The Trajectory of Model Capability Improvements: Will Scaling Laws Continue | Semi-Conductor Supply Chains | What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI and Where is Opportunity

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator, discusses the future of AI model capabilities and whether current scaling laws will persist. He shares insights on the implications of semiconductor supply chains and tensions that could impact tech growth. Altman weighs in on startup opportunities, warning of areas where OpenAI may 'steamroll' emerging ventures. He reflects on his leadership challenges, the role of youth in startup culture, and shares his vision of what he would create with today's AI technologies.
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Apr 15, 2024 • 50min

20VC: OpenAI's Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap on The Future of Foundation Models: Will They Be Commoditised | How to Solve the Problem of Compute | Open vs Closed: Which Dominates and Why | Which Companies and Verticals Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Brad Lightcap, COO, discuss their powerful partnership, decision-making dynamics, and the challenges OpenAI faces in scaling. They delve into overcoming doubts in AI development, strategic focus, research-driven product development, and the future of technology. The conversation also touches on global issues, time constraints, relationship support, and envisioning a future of abundance.
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Dec 7, 2023 • 1h 22min

Sam Altman Speaks Out About What Happened at OpenAI [VIDEO]

Sam Altman, former and reinstated CEO of OpenAI, recounts his firing and rehiring experience. They discuss the release of ChatGPT, hopes for AI to benefit humanity, and the need for governance. The speakers explore scaling and unexpected outcomes, reflect on AI and capitalism, and dive into the potential of AI to combat injustice.
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Nov 24, 2023 • 59min

'Hard Fork': An Interview With Sam Altman

Sam Altman, Co-founder of OpenAI, discusses his worldview and vision for the future of AI. The podcast covers the firing and rehiring of Altman as CEO of OpenAI, the challenges and success of AI models like ChachiPT, AI regulation and responsible development, exponential improvement of GPT 3.5, copyright concerns, the future of the internet, and the closing segment with an Audi ad.
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Jul 17, 2023 • 44min

Prof G Markets: Inflation’s Descent, Sam Altman’s SPAC, and Private Equity’s Latest Target

This week on Prof G Markets, Scott breaks down what the latest inflation data means for the American economy. He then shares his thoughts on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman taking a nuclear power company public via SPAC. Finally, he explains why private equity firms are circling mom-and-pop businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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May 19, 2023 • 1h 28min

E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more

(0:00) Bestie intros!: Reddit Performance Reviews (5:14) Quick AIS 2023 update (6:27) AI Senate hearing: Sam Altman playing chess with regulators, open-source viability (21:25) Regulatory capture angle, "preemptive regulation," how AI relates to nuclear, insider insights from the White House's AI summit (43:33) Elon hires new Twitter CEO (48:46) Lina Khan moves to block Amgen's $27.8B acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics (1:02:30) Apple's AR goggles are reportedly being unveiled at WWDC in early June, platform shift potential, how it deviates from Apple's prior launch strategies (1:07:45) Residential and commercial real estate headwinds (1:15:29) Unrest in SF and NYC after two recent tragic incidents ended in death (1:24:20) Soros political motivations for backing progressive DAs Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit: https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect Referenced in the show: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/psst-gary-marcus-is-happy-to-help-regulate-ai-on-behalf-of-the-u-s-government/ https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1658913074106236931 https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard https://artificialintelligenceact.eu https://futurism.com/the-byte/warren-buffett-ai-atom-bomb https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/12/nbcuniversal-ad-chief-yaccarino-resigns-as-sources-say-shes-in-talks-to-be-twitter-ceo.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftc-poised-to-block-amgens-27-8-billion-deal-for-horizon-therapeutics-a9c1b499 https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/2310037amgenhorizoncomplainttropi.pdf https://www.benefitspro.com/2023/05/12/pbms-the-brokers-who-control-drug-prices-finally-get-washingtons-attention https://sharegpt.com/c/O6OKM9D https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-mixed-reality-headset-9213ac1b https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1657828947877560323 https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1658955195450286081 https://www.foxnews.com/us/witness-jordan-neely-chokehold-death-calls-daniel-penny-hero https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1njfls/try_to_stay_away_from_the_michael_jackson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/03/26/in-the-shadows-with-nycs-self-styled-guardian-angels https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/media-falsely-representing-jordan-neely-10-year-old-photos-crucial-information https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1655716240500080640 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/george-soros-son-visited-white-house-dozen-times-since-biden-took-office-records-show
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Oct 6, 2023 • 2h 43min

#2044 - Sam Altman

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, discusses the potential of AI government and objective decision-making. They explore cryptocurrency regulation and the decline of young innovators. They delve into the impact of technology on testosterone levels and the integration of technology with humanity. They also discuss the transformative effect of merging humans and technology, the importance of empathy and compassion, and the implications and risks of advanced technology.
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Nov 18, 2024 • 47min

How To Build The Future: Sam Altman

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and a leading figure in AI safety, discusses the future of technology and its implications. He shares insights into the origins of OpenAI and the imminent rise of Artificial Super Intelligence, predicting its arrival within a few thousand days. The conversation highlights the transformative potential of generative models like GPT-4 for startups, and Altman offers advice for founders navigating this fast-evolving landscape. He emphasizes resilience, authenticity, and the critical role of community in entrepreneurship.
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Feb 16, 2023 • 59min

ICYMI... HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman

Artificial Intelligence was once the realm of science fiction. But over the last several years, advances in machine learning and deep neural networks have moved us closer to a reality where computers can learn and solve problems independently, the way a human does. From art and music to medicine and politics, the potential applications of AI are nearly endless, and the technology just keeps getting better.This week on How I Built This Lab, Guy talks with one of the leaders in the field of AI development, Sam Altman. Sam talks about his journey from Stanford dropout and teenage entrepreneur to president of the legendary startup incubator Y Combinator and co-founder of the nonprofit OpenAI. Plus, Sam shares his hopes and fears for the future of AI and how his company is working to ensure it ultimately benefits all of humanity. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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May 3, 2023 • 1h 2min

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on AI and the future

How might we develop and deploy beneficial, safe artificial general intelligence for humanity? Reid and Aria are joined by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, and Greg Brockman, OpenAI co-founder and president. Sam and Greg trace their journey—from articulating their mission to early company projects and decisions to scaling and sharing GPT-4 with the world. They also explore the transformative impact artificial intelligence can have on other industries, like energy, medicine, education, and law. Plus, GPT-4 offers a poetic perspective on a piece of code.Read OpenAI’s paper on the Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron here.Here's the code used to generate Greg's AI poem: https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/openai/api_requestor.py. Read Impromptu by Reid Hoffman with GPT-4 here. For more info on the podcast and transcripts of all of the episodes, visit www.possible.fm/podcast.Topics4:00 - Hellos and intros4:30 - The OpenAI mission8:45 - Advancements in education and medicine12:14 - Surprises with scale 15:19 - Building GPT-4 18:34 - Regulating AI25:50 - How OpenAI got where it is today28:26 - First scaling success with DOTA32:51 - Which industries will AI transform?39:30 - Sam and Greg’s investments outside AI45:08 - Surprising applications of AI 49:40 - Rapidfire questions56:16 - Debrief with Reid and AriaPossible is a new podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. Most of all, it asks: what if, in the future, everything breaks humanity's way? Hosted by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger, each episode features an interview with a visionary from a different field: climate science, media, criminal justice, and more. The conversation also features another kind of guest: GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest and most powerful language model to date. Each episode has a companion story, generated by GPT-4, which will serve as a jumping-off point for a hopeful, speculative discussion about what humanity could possibly get right if we leverage technology—and our collective effort—effectively.Possible is produced by Wonder Media Network and hosted by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger. Our showrunner is Shaun Young. Possible is produced by Edie Allard and Sara Schleede. Jenny Kaplan is our Executive Producer and Editor. Special thanks to Theresa Lopez, Surya Yalamanchili, Saida Sapieva, Ian Alas, Greg Beato, and Ben Relles.
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Jan 19, 2023 • 1h

Creators Who Have Made $50M+, Multi-Million Car Businesses, and Sam Altman

Episode 408: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about multi-million dollar car businesses, Shaan's business offer for a female listener, creators who have made $50M plus, and Billy of the Week Sam Altman.Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here.-----Links:* Bring a Trailer* Shaan's tweet* More Plates More Dates* Gorilla Mind* Marek Health* Kayla Itsines* Mark Rober* Ben Shapiro* Jeremy's Razors* Chamberlain Coffee* Pat McAfee Show* Dani Austin* Divi* Mindy McKnight* Christian Guzman* Sam Altman* Suli quotes* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.* Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter.------Show Notes:(03:00) - Bring a trailer(13:50) - Creators who have made more than $50M(31:10) - Billy of the Week: Sam Altman(49:50) - Suli quotes-----Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.-----Additional episodes you might enjoy:• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
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Sep 6, 2023 • 49min

Sam Altman CEO of OpenAI: ChatGPT, Future of AI, AGI, and China

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, discusses the future of AI and its impact on the world. Topics include: coexistence of humans and AI, new use cases for AI, global impact of technology, regulating AI in Europe, pursuit of AGI, significance of co-founders, and OpenAI's goal and talent assessment.
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Nov 29, 2023 • 58min

Live Players: Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, George Soros

"The inaugural episode features Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and George Soros as guests. They discuss the concept of 'live players' who challenge societal norms, compare the impacts of Altman, Thiel, and Musk, evaluate philanthropists like Soros, and explore the paradox of Open Society. They emphasize the importance of live players in driving societal transformation and preventing stagnation."
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Sep 13, 2022 • 37min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman | AI for the Next Era

Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman interviews OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The AI research and deployment company's primary mission is to develop and promote AI technology that benefits humanity. Founded in 2015, the company has most recently been noted for its generative transformer model GPT - 3, which uses deep learning to produce human-like text, and its image-creation platform DALL-E. This interview took place during Greylock’s Intelligent Future event, a day-long summit featuring experts and entrepreneurs from some of today’s leading artificial intelligence organizations. You can watch the video of this interview on our YouTune channel here: https://youtu.be/WHoWGNQRXb0 You can read a transcript of this interview here: https://greylock.com/greymatter/sam-altman-ai-for-the-next-era/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 14, 2024 • 47min

EP 104: Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI) talks GPT-4o and Predicts the Future of AI

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, discusses the launch of ChatGPT-4o, predicts the future of AI, covers AGI, societal impact of humanoid robots, AI personal assistants, opportunities, risks in the AI landscape, AI in communication and creativity, AI ethics and regulation, safety in AI, societal changes, educational adaptations for the AI era, and personal and professional challenges.
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May 24, 2024 • 22min

20VC: OpenAI's Sam Altman, Mistral's Arthur Mensch and more discuss: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised | Which Startups Are Threatened vs Enabled by OpenAI | Is the Value in the Infrastructure or Application Layer?

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman and Mistral AI's CEO Arthur Mensch discuss the commoditization of foundation models in AI, market strategies, potential returns, and the future of AI development. They explore challenges in investing in foundation models, advancements in AI models, and strategies for building on AI models to create value in different layers. The podcast also touches on the co-pilot strategy in startups, disrupting incumbents, and the importance of distribution, data, and user experience.
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May 1, 2024 • 46min

Sam Altman (OpenAI) - The Possibilities of AI

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, shares insights on AI entrepreneurship, risks and opportunities surrounding AI tools, and the mission of OpenAI to build general-purpose artificial intelligence benefiting humanity. He explores personal growth, financial challenges in AI, resilience, leadership needs, responsible deployment of AGI, and AI's impact on society.
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Mar 5, 2024 • 20min

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman

The podcast discusses Elon Musk suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for prioritizing commercial success over public benefit. It also explores Apple's focus on AI, US sanctions on China's AI progress, Opus AI's evaluation test, concerns about AGI threats, and the implications of Musk's lawsuit on OpenAI's direction.
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Mar 23, 2023 • 1h 2min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4 & the A.I. Arms Race

We’re on the cusp of an artificial intelligence arms race that has venture capitalists drooling, regulators petrified and competitors from Google to Microsoft to Elon Musk racing to get their products out the door. Kara talks to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and the man who’s led the launches of ChatGPT and GPT-4. They discuss the hallucinations of ChatGPT+, why Open AI moved from an open-source nonprofit to a closed-source “capped profit” company and why Altman doesn’t believe artificial intelligence developers should enjoy Section 230 immunity. Afterwards, Kara and Nayeema break down the interview and the promises and perils of an unknowable A.I.-powered future.Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find us on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Nov 20, 2023 • 40min

Sam Altman: Customer love is all you need

The true seed of scale is customer love, which you can’t buy, hack, or game. Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator, scaled countless start-ups by focusing on this one idea: Finding 100 users who love you is better than 1 million who kinda like you. As CEO of OpenAI, Sam leads the creation of genuinely useful AI products. He shares timeless insights in his interview from 2018 on how to build on the love of passionate customers to create world-shifting tools.Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com/sam-altman-why-customer-love-is-all-you-need/Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: https://mastersofscale.com/subscribeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 17min

#87: Reactions to Sam Altman’s Bombshell AI Quote, Enterprises Embrace Custom AI Models, and How AI Is Changing Writing Forever

Exploring the implications of Sam Altman's quote on AI, enterprise adoption of generative AI, insights from the AI for Writers Summit, Elon Musk's emails, open sourcing of Grok, political deepfakes, Google and Microsoft security incidents, and the impact of AI on decision-making.
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Nov 8, 2018 • 36min

#100 - Sam Altman

Sam Altman expands on ideas that have come up in several of his essays. Specifically: choosing projects, creating value, and finding purpose.Sam’s the president of YC Group and co-chairman of OpenAI. You can find him on Twitter @sama.The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.***Topics1:25 - From The Days Are Long But The Decades Are Short - Minimize your own cognitive load from distracting things that don’t really matter. It’s hard to overstate how important this is, and how bad most people are at it.3:50 - Stepping back and evaluating your work5:30 - Creating metrics for your projects6:30 - Taking a year off 9:30 - Figuring out when to commit11:30 - Poker12:30 - From Productivity - Sleep seems to be the most important physical factor in productivity for me. Exercise is probably the second most important physical factor. The third area is nutrition. 15:00 - From You and Your Research by Richard Hamming - "If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?"16:30 - From The Days Are Long But The Decades Are Short - Things in life are rarely as risky as they seem. Most people are too risk-averse, and so most advice is biased too much towards conservative paths.17:30 - Perspective shifts20:15 - From Productivity - My system has three key pillars: “Make sure to get the important shit done”, “Don’t waste time on stupid shit”, and “make a lot of lists”.22:30 - What Happened to Innovation24:50 - From You and Your Research by Richard Hamming - He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. 26:50 - The deferred life plan doesn’t work31:50 - From The Merge - Our self-worth is so based on our intelligence that we believe it must be singular and not slightly higher than all the other animals on a continuum. Perhaps the AI will feel the same way and note that differences between us and bonobos are barely worth discussing. 34:10 - Weight training35:30 - The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello
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Feb 27, 2019 • 1h 8min

Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent

Founders aren’t superheroes, says Sam Altman.They may play extreme sports, respond to emails within seconds, and start billion-dollar companies, but they are rarely the product of extraordinary circumstance. In fact, they tend to be solidly upper-middle class, reasonably smart, and with loving parents.  So would Sam fund Peter Parker? What about Bruce Wayne? Tyler and Sam discuss these burning questions and more, including what’s wrong with San Francisco, Napoleon’s underrated skill, nuclear energy, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution, his rant against coworking spaces, UBI and AGI, risk and regret, optimism and beauty, and why venture capitalists don’t have superpowers either. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links. Recorded January 28th, 2019 Other ways to connect Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Follow Tyler on Twitter  Follow Sam on Twitter Email us: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu Subscribe at our newsletter page to have the latest Conversations with Tyler news sent straight to your inbox. 
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Apr 27, 2023 • 1h 10min

AI With Sam Altman: The End of The World? Or The Dawn of a New One?

Just six months ago, few outside of Silicon Valley had heard of OpenAI, the company that makes the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. Now, this application is used daily by over 100 million users, and some of those people use it more often than Google. Within just months of its release, it has become the fastest-growing app in history. ChatGPT can write essays and code. It can ace the bar exam, write poems and song lyrics, and summarize emails. It can give advice, scour the internet for information, and diagnose an illness given a set of blood results, all in a matter of seconds. And all of the responses it generates are eerily similar to those of an actual human being. For many people, it feels like we’re on the brink of something world-changing. That the technology that powers ChatGPT, and the emergent AI revolution more broadly, will be the most critical and rapid societal transformation in the history of the world to date. If that sounds like hyperbole, don’t take it from me: Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai said AI’s impact will be more profound than the discovery of fire. Computer scientist and Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng said AI is the new electricity. Some say it’s the new printing press. Others say it’s more like the invention of the wheel, or the airplane. Many predict the AI revolution will make the internet seem like a small step. And just last month, The Atlantic ran a story comparing AI to nuclear weapons.But there’s a flip side to all of this optimism, and it’s a dark one. Many smart people believe that AI could make human beings obsolete. Thousands of brilliant technologists—people like Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak—are so concerned about this software that last month they called for an immediate pause on training any AI systems more powerful than the current version of ChatGPT. One of the pioneers of AI, Eliezer Yudkowsky, claims that if AI continues on its current trajectory, it will destroy life on Earth as we know it. He recently wrote, “If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter.”Which is it? Is AI the end of the world? Or the dawn of a new one? To answer that question for us today: Sam Altman. Sam is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, which makes him arguably one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley, and if you believe the hype about AI, the world. I ask him: is the technology that powers ChatGPT going to fundamentally transform life on Earth as we know it? In what ways? How will AI affect our basic humanity, our jobs, our understanding of intelligence, our relationships? And are the people in charge of this powerful technology, people like himself, ready for the responsibility? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 19, 2023 • 1h 6min

Supreme Court Saves Social Media, Montana Bans TikTok, and Sam Altman Wants AI Regulation

EU regulators say 'game on' for the Microsoft-Activision deal, WeWork's CEO is stepping down, and the latest call for AI regulation is coming from inside the house. Kara and Scott discuss the weak plan to ban TikTok in Montana. And Elon Musk continues to Elon Musk, saying he’s willing to lose money to say what he wants to say. Also, a prediction about the writer's strike.Listen to On with Kara Swisher's episode, "Will Elon Musk Turn Twitter Into Yahoo Mail?" here.Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 12min

#89: A New In-Depth Sam Altman Interview, The “Inflection Point” for Enterprise Generative AI Adoption, and Inflection AI’s Big Shakeup

Sam Altman discusses enterprise AI adoption and Inflection AI changes. The episode covers Altman's interview, changes in AI buying trends, instability at Stability AI, and partnerships in the AI space. It also explores the practicality of Prompt Libraries, Claude 3 models, Gemini 1.5 API advancements, and the origins of modern AI innovations by Google employees.
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Feb 21, 2023 • 38min

OpenAI's Sam Altman | AI for the Next Era

A re-broadcast of Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman's interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, recorded during Greylock's Intelligent Future summit in August 2022. Founded in 2015, OpenAI has recently released several high-profile products in quick succession: succession: its generative transformer model GPT-3 – which uses deep learning to produce human-like text – its image-creation platform DALL-E – and most recently, ChatGPT. Trained on massive large language models, the highly sophisticated chatbot can mimic human conversation and speak on a wide range of topics. You can watch a video of the interview here: https://youtu.be/WHoWGNQRXb0 You can read a transcript of this interview here: https://greylock.com/greymatter/sam-altman-ai-for-the-next-era/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jan 15, 2022 • 40min

Sam Altman — Leading with Crippling Anxiety, Discovering Meditation, and Building Intelligence with Self-Awareness

In this episode, Brett and Joe interview Sam Altman on how self-awareness gained through meditation can be combined with intelligence in business. Sam is an entrepreneur, investor and programmer. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator. Sam discusses his experiences with meditation and how it has transformed his decision making and resulted in a much calmer, more joyous default state of being. He explains some of the most profound realizations that he has had about himself and humanity in general through his work with AI. Join us to hear more about how Sam arrived at a place of calm detachment that allowed him to respond to challenging and stressful situations with ease.“Intelligence and awareness, to me, seem like that have to go together.” What we discuss in Episode 39:1:30  A realization that completely changed the way that Sam operates in business, the way he thinks about AI, and his life.5:04  The moment Sam realized his old way of operating, from a place of stress and anxiety, needed to change.8:00  How to really care about something while remaining detached from the outcome at the same time.11:03  The most transformative aspect of meditation according to Sam.14:40  The experience of non-duality — how it shifts perspective and provides clarity on self, passions and priorities.22:22  Whether human emotions are possible for artificial intelligence to experience.29:38  How intelligence needs self-awareness to reach its full capacity.32:50  How meditation shifted Sam’s relationship to anger and joy.35:55  How the work that Sam has done on himself has evolved his work culture.**Full transcript can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/AoAEpisode39 Learn more about our free workshops and online courses at artofaccomplishment.comWe invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at view.life/explore
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Nov 20, 2023 • 51min

The Fallout from OpenAI Firing CEO Sam Altman

Fired CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, discusses the drama surrounding his dismissal and OpenAI's decision to hire a new CEO. The podcast also explores the regulation of superhuman machine intelligence and the challenges faced by OpenAI as a nonprofit organization.
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Nov 20, 2023 • 1h 9min

Chaos at OpenAI: What happened to Sam Altman, and what's next

Former CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, discusses the recent chaos at OpenAI, including his firing and the potential consequences for the company and individuals involved. They delve into the unexpected resignation, negotiations surrounding Altman's return, potential investments, winners and losers, internal conflicts and developments at OpenAI, and uncertainty about the future of the company and chat GPT.
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Oct 1, 2024 • 49min

The Man Behind ChatGPT (Sam Altman Interview)

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and devoted writer, shares insights on the transformative power of writing in both personal and professional spheres. He discusses using ChatGPT in daily life, and how AI language models like ChatGPT are reshaping writing and communication. Sam offers lessons learned from Paul Graham, emphasizes the importance of clear communication, and explores the balance between AI creativity and traditional writing practices. With a passion for literature, he even recites poetry, revealing the depth of his creative side.
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Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 7min

TikTok Ban, Sam Altman's Return to OpenAI Board, Fake News Sites

Topics discussed include Sam Altman's reinstatement to OpenAI board, fake news sites linked to Russia, grassroots campaign against social media addiction, potential TikTok ban, Elon Musk's impact on Texas, and the role of brands in advertising on harmful platforms.
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Jun 8, 2023 • 28min

Sam Altman’s Leaked Meeting Notes Reveals OpenAi’s Future (#127)

OpenAI won’t be building more consumer products after ChatGPT. How will this affect B2B?Kipp and Kieran dive into OpenAI’s secret roadmap and what it means for the future of AI. Learn about the power of multi-modality in AI, how personalization will scale new technologies, and if OpenAI will become the next Amazon Web Services.Mentions OpenAI https://open.ai/  Sam Altman leaked interview https://web.archive.org/web/20230601000258/https://website-nm4keew22-humanloopml.vercel.app/blog/openai-plans  ChatGPT https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt  Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244  We’re on Social Media! Follow us for everyday marketing wisdom straight to your feedYouTube: ​​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGtXqPiNV8YC0GMUzY-EUFg Twitter: https://twitter.com/matgpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@matgpod Thank you for tuning into Marketing Against The Grain!Don’t forget to hit subscribe and follow us on Apple Podcasts (so you never miss an episode)! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketing-against-the-grain/id1616700934  If you love this show, please leave us a 5-Star Review https://link.chtbl.com/h9_sjBKH and share your favorite episodes with friends.We really appreciate your support.Host Links:Kipp Bodnar, https://twitter.com/kippbodnar  Kieran Flanagan, https://twitter.com/searchbrat ‘Marketing Against The Grain’ is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Produced by Darren Clarke.
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Sep 30, 2024 • 2h 51min

TWiT 999: Bananas and Browsers - CA AI Bill Veto, Meta's Orion, FTC Vs. Fake Reviews

Sam Altman, a key figure in the AI landscape known for his visionary ideas, and filmmaker James Cameron, recently appointed to the board of Stability AI, discuss pivotal tech developments. They dive into California's recent veto of an AI safety bill, touching on the clash between regulatory needs and Silicon Valley’s interests. The conversation also explores Meta's Orion AR glasses and the implications of fake reviews online, spotlighting new FTC regulations to enhance digital trust.
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Sep 12, 2018 • 16min

How to Succeed with a Startup by Sam Altman

Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, shares his thoughts on how you can succeed as a startup.TranscriptLecture SlidesVideo Link
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Mar 21, 2024 • 35min

Will AI Automate 95% Of What Marketers Do?

The podcast discusses the impact of AI on marketing and how it may automate 95% of tasks. They explore misconceptions about AI, the role of AI in marketing agencies, and a new AI tool for character design. The conversation emphasizes the importance of human creativity and problem-solving in the evolving landscape.
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Feb 21, 2024 • 18min

17 Startup Principles by Sam Altman

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI & former President of YCombinator, discusses 17 startup principles in his essay 'What I Wish Someone Had Told Me'. Topics include optimism in entrepreneurship, building a successful business with relentless teams and audacious ideas, success strategies like conviction and outcome orientation, and the importance of working with great people in startups.
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Jul 5, 2023 • 1h 11min

#128 - generative search, GPU black market, GPT-4’s Secret, Sam Altman’s World Tour

Our 128th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:00) Google extends generative AI search to places, products and virtual models Applications & Business(00:05:52) China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year (00:10:33) Inside China's underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips (00:14:20) OpenAI plans app store for AI software, The Information reports (00:16:22) AI human-voice clones are coming for the Amazon, Apple, Google audiobook (00:18:45) Hugging Face and AMD partner on accelerating state-of-the-art models for CPU and GPU platforms (00:22:20) Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs Projects & Open Source(00:25:05) Imitation Models and the Open-Source LLM Revolution Research & Advancements(00:29:52) AIs trained on other AI output will start producing junk within a few generations, scientists warn (00:34:42) GPT-4's Secret Has Been Revealed (00:42:00) We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work Policy & Safety(00:44:10) Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers (00:50:25) Five big takeaways from Europe’s AI Act (00:54:44) President Biden meets with AI tech leaders in San Francisco (00:56:25) AI-generated child sex images spawn new nightmare for the web Synthetic Media & Art(01:00:00) LinkedIn Reveals AI Image Hunter That Catches Fake Profiles (01:03:42) The Reddit API Blackout and the Generative AI Connection (01:07:23) Grammys approve new rules on use of artificial intelligence
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Jun 27, 2024 • 48min

OpenAI Part 5: Beware the Ides of November

Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman's power struggle at OpenAI leads to a board coup, employee revolt, and his triumphant return as CEO. Explore the secrets, betrayals, and political maneuvering behind the scenes in the AI industry.
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May 2, 2024 • 35min

How This GPT-4 Prompt Is Breaking a $257 Billion Industry

Entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman discusses the potential of ChatGPT-5 model in revolutionizing brand marketing strategies. Topics include building for future AI advancements, integrating AI for data extraction, enhancing brand awareness, and the significance of accommodating upcoming AI advancements in marketing platforms.
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Jul 4, 2024 • 1h 7min

Sam Altman Hints at GPT-5, Hands-on with Runway Gen-3 & So Much Robot News

Sam Altman hints at GPT-5 advancements, Runway Gen-3 hands-on experience. AI scaling insights from Bill Gates and Meta's 3D-Gen text-to-model software. Robot news, celebrity voices for AI content, and future of AI in entertainment industry discussed.
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Jan 14, 2024 • 36min

Artificial: Episode 4, Behind Sam Altman’s Firing

Former CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, was fired and rehired. The podcast discusses the controversial firing, lack of specific details, and theories surrounding his dismissal. It also covers the aftermath, including negative employee reactions and Altman joining Microsoft. The evolution of OpenAI and its commitment to safety are explored, as well as its transformation into a company aligned with big tech.
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Jun 6, 2024 • 39min

OpenAI Part 1: The Most Silicon Valley Man Alive

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, discusses his rise to tech stardom with ChatGPT. The podcast dives into his close ties with Silicon Valley elites, his global influence on the AI future, and the power dynamics shaping his ambitions.