Episode 061 — OpenAI and Strategy Credits

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss OpenAI’s new mission and what it says about capitalism. Or is it just a strategy credit that we are reading too much into? This episode is sponsored by Wealthfront. See recommended portfolios and get up to $15,000 managed for free by visiting Wealthfront.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: “Yep, broken.” — Twitter James Allworth: Is OpenAI Solving the Wrong Problem? — Harvard Busines Review Introducing OpenAI — OpenAI Steven Levy: How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over — Backchannel Ben Thompson: OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence and Data, Data and Recruiting — Stratechery Daily … Continue reading Episode 061 — OpenAI and Strategy Credits

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.6	I don't want to ask.
0:03.9	Are you okay?
0:06.4	Oh, I thought you're going to say Star Wars.
0:08.1	No, your arm.
0:09.6	You broke your arm.
0:10.9	So the best part in Star Wars was when...
0:12.6	Oh, my God.
0:20.5	No.
0:21.4	No, no, no, no, no.
0:22.4	You broke your arm.
0:24.9	I did break my arm.
0:26.2	So that's why we missed last week.
0:27.8	So apologies that there was no podcast last week.
0:31.6	I did.
0:32.3	I broke my arm.
0:33.7	I, for reasons unbeknownst to me, put on roller blades for the first time in years, which was
0:38.8	unbelievably stupid. And I biffed and I came down on my hand. And yeah, I heard the bone break
0:50.4	when I felt. It was at least it wasn't one of those horrible breaks where the bone sticks out of the skin or
0:56.5	anything, was it?
0:57.1	No, but it was displaced by like a good inch or so.
0:59.9	Oh, man.
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