#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
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Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Sam's X: https://x.com/sama
Sam's Blog: https://blog.samaltman.com/
OpenAI's X: https://x.com/OpenAI
OpenAI's Website: https://openai.com
ChatGPT Website: https://chat.openai.com/
Sora Website: https://openai.com/sora
GPT-4 Website: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:51) - OpenAI board saga
(25:17) - Ilya Sutskever
(31:26) - Elon Musk lawsuit
(41:18) - Sora
(51:09) - GPT-4
(1:02:18) - Memory & privacy
(1:09:22) - Q*
(1:12:58) - GPT-5
(1:16:13) - $7 trillion of compute
(1:24:22) - Google and Gemini
(1:35:26) - Leap to GPT-5
(1:39:10) - AGI
(1:57:44) - Aliens
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Sam Altman, his second time in the podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | He is the CEO of Open AI, the company behind GPT 4, Chad GPT, |
| 0:11.2 | SORA, and perhaps one day, the very company that will build a G.I. |
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