OpenAI, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where OpenAI comes up
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 6:49 Bill Gurley I mean, you could just sit there, you could have an hour drive, and you could sit there and talk to OpenAI and learn about anything you want to, and I think more people would benefit by studying the history of whatever field they're in.
Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg
- ▶ 11:43 Winston Weinberg We, so we got all of those outputs and, uh, the thing that was happening kind of like simultaneously is Gabe had some friends, um, that were thinking about, uh, joining this company called OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 0:00 Shane Parrish So how did OpenAI come about?
- ▶ 4:55 Shane Parrish At what point did you realize that like this nonprofit thing just wasn't going to work? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:14 Greg Brockman The way that OpenAI works is it's a series of moments where you realize that it's real now.
- ▶ 11:05 Greg Brockman And so there's really back to the original open AI plan.
- ▶ 12:02 Greg Brockman I think the thing about open AI is that if you truly believe in the mission, if you truly believe in the possibility of creating machines that have the intelligence level of humans, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 Greg Brockman Also that I had been removed from the board, but would be staying with the company because I was very critical to the company, the mission. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 Greg Brockman I remember feeling that first day like, okay, there's a 10% chance that we actually get the company back. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:40 Greg Brockman And honestly, just one of the hardest moments for me at OpenAI was when Ilya left. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:08 Greg Brockman I think that, that there have been moments where I think I've been very much approaching OpenAI through a lens of uncertainty, of feeling like, I don't know what the right answer is, I don't know what the right way to build this technology… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:47 Greg Brockman And this picture of suffering was something that we thought about throughout the course of OpenAI, where it's like, we had so much uncertainty from the beginning. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:18 Shane Parrish Why is OpenAI so bad at naming models?
- ▶ 42:32 Greg Brockman GBD five to five, one to five, two to five, three codecs to five, four. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:39 Shane Parrish You guys were teased for putting so much effort, money into data centers. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Shane Parrish How do you think about that internally, just at OpenAI between consumer and enterprise? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:35 Greg Brockman One of my friends was describing that his sister was describing this app that she really wished someone had created, that she had this picture of, like, exactly what she wanted, and he, in the meanwhile, was typing into Kodaks, uh-huh,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:11 Greg Brockman Well, iterative deployment is one of the core pillars of how OpenAI has approached how to get this technology to benefit people and to achieve our mission. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:48 Greg Brockman The OpenAI Foundation has this as one of its key focuses of trying to help society invest in and build a resilience layer for AI.
- ▶ 1:03:54 Greg Brockman Sometimes it's through regulation, sometimes it's through commitments from the company, and sometimes it's just through people understanding the facts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:52 Greg Brockman Achieving the OpenAI mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 1:09:00 Shane Parrish And I'm, I'm talking about, like, SpaceX or OpenAI, and you've created, or Stripe would be another example, you've created a hundred billion, a trillion dollars of, we'll say value, we'll use that term a little loosely, but you've created…
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 49:46 Shane Parrish So does OneX.tech, an OpenAI-backed startup along with hundreds of thousands of tech companies worldwide.
- ▶ 54:03 Shane Parrish What's different about how you're training that versus how somebody like Anthropic or OpenAI, like what's different about the model itself?
- ▶ 1:01:15 Vlad Tenev Yeah, I mean, I, I heard there was reports of OpenAI calling a code red
- ▶ 1:10:37 Vlad Tenev Uh, hundreds of public equities and also did a tokenized giveaway of OpenAI and SpaceX, which was very popular.
- ▶ 1:17:05 Vlad Tenev And, um, I think in, in the case of the open AI and SpaceX tokenization, we were sort of running an experiment and we wanted to be the first, you know, if there was a Guinness book of world records for the first 2 times in the scene