Foundering: The OpenAI Story (Trailer)
Foundering
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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The biggest story in tech is artificial intelligence, and the biggest story in AI is OpenAI. The company’s rapid progress and blazingly popular consumer products like ChatGPT have pushed tech giants to dump billions of dollars into an AI arms race. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, has been dogged by persistent allegations of being manipulative, deceitful, and power hungry – even to the point of being fired by his own board. This season of Foundering takes listeners straight to the heart of the AI explosion: feuds, betrayals, billionaires, and the extinction of humanity…. maybe?
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| 0:00.0 | He was small in stature, you know, I think maybe in cargo shorts or I mean he looked like he could have still been in high school |
| 0:06.4 | But if you'd shut your eyes and we're just listening to him his command of material and ability to communicate and engage was on par with anyone, you know, I have met with over the course of my tech career. |
| 0:17.0 | The way people tell it, Sam Altman has always been destined for greatness. |
| 0:22.0 | I've personally seen Sam resolve a $100 million issue in a 30 minute phone call, 15 minute phone call. |
| 0:30.2 | He's a young Bill Gates, a baby Steve Jobs. |
| 0:34.0 | Then Sam came within grasp of real power |
| 0:38.0 | by being one of the founders of Open AI. |
| 0:42.0 | He went against Elon Musk, I am the reason Open AI exists. |
| 0:46.0 | And won. |
| 0:48.0 | Elon reacts by trying to win at all costs him whatever whatever scorched earth may arise from that. |
| 0:54.7 | Sam became the leader of the most exciting company in the tech industry. |
| 0:59.6 | He testified in front of Congress. |
| 1:01.8 | My worst fears are that we cause significant harm to the world. |
| 1:06.0 | I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. |
| 1:10.0 | It would be a future shaped by him and his company's invention until |
| 1:15.2 | breaking news Sam Altman is out as CEO of open AI. |
| 1:20.0 | This is a stunner. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm your host Ellen Hewitt. |
| 1:23.4 | In this season of Foundering, we'll take you inside Open AI. |
| 1:27.6 | It's a story of feuds, betrayals, billionaires, |
| 1:31.1 | and maybe the extinction of humanity. |
| 1:34.4 | And it's also the story of Sam Altman, |
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