#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
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Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2023
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Sam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/sama
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OpenAI's Website: https://openai.com
GPT-4 Website: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(08:41) - GPT-4
(20:06) - Political bias
(27:07) - AI safety
(47:47) - Neural network size
(51:40) - AGI
(1:13:09) - Fear
(1:15:18) - Competition
(1:17:38) - From non-profit to capped-profit
(1:20:58) - Power
(1:26:11) - Elon Musk
(1:34:37) - Political pressure
(1:52:51) - Truth and misinformation
(2:05:13) - Microsoft
(2:09:13) - SVB bank collapse
(2:14:04) - Anthropomorphism
(2:18:07) - Future applications
(2:21:59) - Advice for young people
(2:24:37) - Meaning of life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT4, |
| 0:07.1 | JADGPT, Dolly, Codex, and many other AI technologies which both individually and together |
| 0:14.1 | constitute some of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of artificial intelligence, |
| 0:18.8 | computing, and humanity in general. |
| 0:22.1 | Please allow me to say a few words about the possibilities and the dangers of AI in this |
| 0:27.6 | current moment in the history of human civilization. |
| 0:30.6 | I believe it is a critical moment. |
| 0:32.8 | We stand on the precipice of fundamental societal transformation, where soon nobody knows |
| 0:38.2 | when, but many including me believe it's within our lifetime. |
| 0:42.6 | The collective intelligence of the human species begins to pale in comparison by many orders |
| 0:48.8 | of magnitude to the general superintelligence in the AI systems we build and deploy at |
| 0:56.5 | scale. |
| 0:58.6 | This is both exciting and terrifying. |
| 1:01.4 | It is exciting because of the innumerable applications we know and don't yet know that |
| 1:08.3 | will empower humans to create, to flourish, to escape the widespread poverty and suffering |
| 1:14.4 | that exists in the world today, and to succeed in that old, all-too-human pursuit of happiness. |
| 1:22.9 | It is terrifying because of the power that superintelligent AI wields to destroy human |
| 1:29.2 | civilization, intentionally or unintentionally. |
| 1:33.8 | The power to suffocate the human spirit in the totalitarian way of George Orwell's |
| 1:39.2 | 1984 or the Pleasure-Fueled Mass hysteria of Brave New World, where as Huxley saw it, |
| 1:47.6 | will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities |
| 1:54.0 | to think. |
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