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Sam Altman predicts US government becomes insurer of last resort for AI
“At some level, when something gets sufficiently huge, whether or not they are on paper, the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort. As we've seen in various financial crises and insurance companies screwing things up. So, I guess, given the m…”
Altman: Agent Tools Will Matter More Than Intelligence Near-Term
“The agents will keep getting better, so you'll keep working at the maximum of your management bandwidth or cognitive ability to keep track of all the stuff and the tools to make that easy to do will matter. I think more than intelligence for a little while, be…”
Altman: AI could cause measured GDP to decline while quality of life rises
“The way we measure GDP now could start going down, even though quality of life goes way up. And we don't have a lot of practice with things like that, but the massively deflationary.”
Altman: Critics claiming AI scaling is slowing or topping out have been wrong
“And for all of the concern people have about it's gonna, like, top out, or it's slowing down, or whatever, like, no one's been right about that. I mean, sometimes they, it looked like they were for a couple of months as we digested a new model or came to a new…”
Altman: Chips are currently AI's primary bottleneck over energy
“It goes back and forth. Right now, again, it's chips.”
Altman: Competitors copying ChatGPT even replicate OpenAI's design mistakes
“A lot of people have tried copying ChatGPT in, you can go look at some of our competitors' apps, and they even copy the mistakes. They even copy the design decisions we really wish we hadn't made.”
Altman: Most future content will be tool-assisted human generation
“What I expect will mostly happen in the future, which is
Tool assisted human driven generation.
I don't think you care that much if the content is great.”
Altman: Creators will complain Sora does not feature their IP enough
“I can totally imagine a world where our problem in a year or six months or maybe even less is not that people don't want their cameos or their characters appearing, but they think we are not fairly having their characters or cameo appearing often enough.”
Altman: AI and VR will increase demand for authentic physical experiences
“And at some point, like the fact that they can have like a crazy VR experience, they'll still want the real thing and the connection to it and everything they have. So I think there will be a huge amount of that. In fact, I think the future looks like much mor…”
Altman: Workflows Will Shift Toward Managing Teams of AI Agents
“I think we will be heading towards a workflow where a lot of people just feel like they're managing a team of agents, and they'll keep, as the agents get better, they'll keep operating at a higher and higher level of abstraction, which at least watching what's…”
Altman: More capable models may eliminate today's multi-agent abstractions
“I suspect like everything else that's happening when an industry is moving so fast, all of this is somewhat temporary on like a long enough time scale. And You, as these models become more capable and these agents are operating on very long time horizons with …”
Altman: OpenAI knows how to build a GPT-4 equivalent for video
“It was really not until GPT-IV where these text models started providing real value for people, and we know how to go make the GPT-IV equivalent of video models, and we will do that, and then a lot of these things that are currently annoying, like doors, or, y…”
Altman: AI models will eventually automate company deployments
“The models will get so good that they'll help companies deploy themselves, and the forward-deployed engineers will again get to work at a higher level of abstraction.”
Altman: Breakthrough AI Products Will Increasingly Blend In Deep Research
“So maybe that's maybe the shape of things to come is the really, truly extraordinary product work. We'll have more and more research component and it'll be kind of a, more of a hybrid thing.”
Altman predicts ongoing volatility, sell-offs, and booms for SaaS and software
“There, I expect there will continue to be more. I expect there will be big booms in software. I think it's just gonna be volatile for a while as people figure out what this looks like”
Altman: Group chat memes are Sora's most common use case
“Absolutely. I would say that the most common use case is something like that. You know, like memes on group chats is a real killer use case.”
Altman: AI will make movies interactive via real-time spoken prompts
“AI is gonna push things to be more in between there, so you'll have, maybe you're still watching that movie, but now you can, like, Say something a few times throughout the course of it, and it changes what happens as the movie plays out.”
Altman: Sora API has the fastest revenue ramp of any OpenAI model
“The reaction to The API has been nuts positive. Like I, at least the fastest ramping revenue I've ever seen for one of our new models in the API. I mean, maybe there was something faster than I'm not remembering, but the demand there has been just incredible”