Five days of chaos at ChatGPT HQ: The Sam Altman saga
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Last week, Sam Altman the CEO of OpenAI - the makers of ChatGPT - was sacked by his board.
After a dramatic few days, he is back at the company along with a new board. But is it really business as usual at OpenAI?
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| 0:45.0 | avante west coast feel good travel. Almost a year ago, a groundbreaking new technology captured the world's imagination. |
| 1:05.0 | Chat, GPT. |
| 1:07.0 | Maybe you've heard of it. |
| 1:08.0 | If you haven't, then get ready, because this promises to be the viral sensation that could completely |
| 1:14.6 | reset how we do things. Chat gPT finally showed us how artificial intelligence could |
| 1:22.2 | change our lives. |
| 1:24.4 | It wrote poetry, solved math's problems, |
| 1:27.8 | composed music and churned out essays in moments. Within five days of launching it had a million users. It now has more |
| 1:38.5 | than a hundred million. You can nail your next job interview using chat gp. |
| 1:43.4 | Have you tried using chat gpt for meal planning? |
| 1:46.2 | It's seriously so helpful. |
| 1:48.0 | The company behind it, open AI, is now driving the artificial intelligence revolution, and the man leading |
| 1:57.1 | it, Sam Altman, has been labeled the Oppenheimer of AI. Let me ask you what your biggest nightmare is and whether you share that concern. |
| 2:09.0 | Like with all technological revolutions, I expect there to be significant impact on jobs, but exactly |
| 2:16.1 | what that impact looks like is very difficult to predict. |
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