Sam Altman
12 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 29, 2022 by Sam Altman · said 6 times in 5 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Sep 29, 2022 neutral
Altman: Location apps struggled because adults have far less spontaneity
“Even as the world has gotten very mobile, most people are sort of still at home or work all the time, and there's just, like, far less spontaneity than it felt like to, like, a, you know, twenty-year-old or whatever I was at the time.”
Sep 29, 2022 positive
Altman: The best long-term future involves humans merging with AI
“And the most positive long-term futures that I can imagine involve some degree of a merge. It doesn't have to be the crazy sci-fi, like, you know, plug something into our brains or upload ourselves or whatever. But at a minimum, I think it needs to involve som…”
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Sep 29, 2022 negative
Altman: Becoming a VC felt like an admission of defeat
“I didn't, like, have a ton of respect for the career path. And so there was, like, some sense in which it was an admission of defeat about, you know, I just, I can't run a company, so I'm gonna go do the easy job, or I'm gonna go do the retirement job or somet…”
Sep 29, 2022 bullish
Altman: AGI will eventually be capable of finding a cure for cancer
“Eventually, now this will require more compute, but if we society at allocate to compute to that, you can say, like, could you go off and find a cure for cancer? And it can spend a lot of its compute cycles doing amazing scientific progress like that.”
Sep 29, 2022 bullish
Altman: Everyone will eventually have an AGI companion assisting them all day
“But I imagine that we get to a world where each of us has sort of like a, what feels like an AGI companion that we are talking to all day that is helping us be the best version of ourselves, learn, be efficient, be happier, and we'll all experience that way.”
Sep 29, 2022
Sep 29, 2022 neutral
Altman: Helion Has Clear Roadmap Certainty While OpenAI Operates in Uncertainty
“The other company I'm involved with is this nuclear fusion company called Helion. And there are a lot of similarities between the two companies in terms of like a very hard Scientific and engineering problem. But the biggest difference is like what to do, what…”
Sep 29, 2022 positive
Altman: OpenAI deploys technology slowly and cautiously, even if users get frustrated
“Right now, you know, we deploy our technology slowly and cautiously, like we're willing to piss users off to go slowly, but as the systems get much more powerful, the challenges become more and more unprecedented.”