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Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
- ▶ 4:04 Alex Kantrowitz Meanwhile, OpenAI and Sam Altman are saying, not just yet.
- ▶ 20:26 Ranjan Roy It's amazing to me that it it's always brought up, but there's not one like clear accepted definition or one clear vision that's communicated by the biggest people in the field, the Sam Altman's and everything else.
OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
- ▶ 10:27 Cory Weinberg I think like Sam Altman has said himself, like open AI is going to be one of the most capital intensive companies in history.
- ▶ 13:35 Cory Weinberg Like Thrive is already very much, they are in the, the Sam Altman business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:45 Cory Weinberg My back of the envelope would say 20, 26 at the latest, but you know, this is their competitive advantage is over like anthropic is clearly Sam Altman being one of the best fundraisers in the world.
Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- ▶ 1:06 Alex Kantrowitz I was going to release this strawberry model, which are, it was initially called Q star and there were worries about it, uh, around the Sam Altman ouster and, and it's here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:13 Alex Kantrowitz And my favorite exchange is Sam Altman announcing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Parmy Olson Like for example, when Sam Altman was fired, there were a lot of rumors going around that the board members who fired him did so because they were big time effective altruists, and they were just driven by this kind of 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:44 Parmy Olson Well, I'll just have, in spite of everything I've said, there is an argument that actually, maybe behind the scenes, Sam Altman and OpenAI have just realized, like, they need to focus on one thing that really matters, and if I was going to… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Parmy Olson The main point I wanted to say in my book was that I was just so fascinated when ChatGPT came out that two people, Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, had become like these rivals to create artificial general intelligence, and they both started… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:18 Alex Kantrowitz Very expensive to produce and run, but I think that's a, that's a quite well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but I do want to hear a little bit more about, um, sort of your perspective on Sam and Demis and if there's stuff…
- ▶ 46:15 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, so, Parmi, I'm curious, like, you know, I think a lot of us have a perception of Sam Altman. 10 times in the scene
How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer
- ▶ 27:29 Ben Plummer This is probably my most, um, exciting and compelling idea around the real power of these technologies that, you know, you, I think you would've heard Sam Altman talk about the, the one person unicorn.
Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- ▶ 8:10 Peter Diamandis You know, Sam Altman a couple of days ago talked about instead of universal basic income, why don't we instead offer everybody a slice of, you know, compute coming online and let them utilize that or donate that towards the cause that they…
What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
- ▶ 3:29 Alex Kantrowitz And I don't know if Sam has compared himself to Oppenheimer, but I've definitely heard some people make those comparisons.
- ▶ 45:10 Alex Kantrowitz And there's, I mean, this is a particularly interesting one with, uh, Sam Altman at the head of open AI. 10 times in the scene
Box CEO Aaron Levie — Audience Q&A: AI Agents, AI Talent, Evolution of Work
- ▶ 11:26 Aaron Levie You know, maybe Sam Altman up here, because, um, he, his, his, his answer will, what's that? 5 times in the scene
Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us
- ▶ 12:05 Alex Kantrowitz And one of the, like, data points that I think about here is OpenAI, in the middle of this whole Sam Altman thing, when he was fired and then brought back in,
- ▶ 17:04 Alex Kantrowitz Because we had this whole, like, moment in the Sam Altman thing where, like, that people talked about this QSTAR model, which could reason and did math, and I watched some of these demos, and I'm like, is that it?
- ▶ 19:23 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, after OpenAI did its release event, Sam Altman tweeted out her.
AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
- ▶ 17:44 Alex Kantrowitz And I start to like raise my antennas here when I hear rumors of Sam Altman wanting to raise seven trillion dollars.
- ▶ 24:47 Dwarkesh Patel And they probably want tens of, I mean, I guess Sam Altman wants seven trillion dollars of winning, but you know what I mean?
- ▶ 26:10 Alex Kantrowitz This was Sam Altman just a couple of weeks ago at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:21 Alex Kantrowitz And then, um, you know, with the whole Sam Altman coup, like clearly that was also part of it.
Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
- ▶ 44:01 Alex Kantrowitz Not your, not you guys about the Altman, uh, no, no, I'm familiar.
- ▶ 51:47 Jack Clark So, you know, to give you context, in 2016 or so, when opening I was formed, um, and I think Sam has said this publicly, you know, I'm not talking out of turn.
- ▶ 56:53 Alex Kantrowitz And during the OpenAI Sam Altman firing weekend, there was also like, people were saying that like, Anthropic was this effective altruism spinoff from OpenAI and Lookout.
- ▶ 1:15:10 Alex Kantrowitz You came to Anthropic from open AI, which is originally started as an open source AI shop with Elon and Sam Altman.
Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- ▶ 26:23 Alex Kantrowitz Towards the end of the book, you talk about Sam Altman also. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:41 Kara Swisher Sam's a nice guy, Mark's a nice guy.
- ▶ 39:48 Kara Swisher I talk about with Sam like this, are you Netscape or are you something else? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:27 Alex Kantrowitz You've, uh, been interviewed by Sam Altman, you've gone on Bill Maher. 4 times in the scene
Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 5:01 Suhail Doshi I mean, Sam's, Sam Allman's response would be like AGI, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:18 Suhail Doshi But I think that they, I think that Sam is genuinely focused on AGI and attaining that.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
- ▶ 37:08 Aravind Srinivas Maybe you, you hear something more privately, but, uh, I guess I'll just go by what Sam Altman told Bill Gates, and I was listening to it like two days ago, which is, um, they'll have a lot more reliable models. 3 times in the scene