Introducing - Artificial: The OpenAI Story

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

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OpenAI was founded in 2015 as an idealistic nonprofit. Its goal was to build artificial general intelligence or AGI — an AI that could do most jobs better than a human could. In the years that followed, OpenAI’s pursuit of AGI led them to develop the viral chatbot ChatGPT. The company became one of the top AI labs in the world. But to get there, OpenAI’s leaders would compromise nearly every one of their founding ideals. Over four episodes, we explore how a little-known startup built one of the world’s most viral tech products … and nearly tore itself apart in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In 2015, a young tech executive named Greg Brockman showed up to dinner at a fancy hotel in Silicon Valley.
0:09.0	This was at the Rosewood in Palo Alto.
0:12.9	Very nice view of kind of the rolling hills
0:16.3	and you can see the interstate in the distance.
0:19.4	Always love a view of an interstate.
0:21.8	At the table were some big names. Elon Musk was there. So was
0:27.0	the investor Sam Altman. Greg arrived late. I felt very bad because I felt like I'd kind of missed all the good stuff
0:34.0	but fortunately the opposite was true I think the good stuff was about to begin.
0:40.0	They were there to talk about starting an artificial intelligence company.
0:44.8	And within a year, they made it a reality. They called it open AI.
0:50.5	Eventually that startup released a product you've probably heard of.
0:55.0	Can you introduce yourself?
0:57.0	Sure thing.
0:59.0	I'm chat GPT developed by Open AI.
1:02.0	I'm designed to chat, answer questions.
1:05.0	Chat gpt was a huge hit. It transformed open AI from a little known startup into a tech powerhouse. But ChatGPT also triggered concerns
1:18.6	about things like factuality. What percentage was fact and what percentage was fiction?
1:24.4	Well, 50-50.
1:28.1	And about the kinds of data chatbots are trained on.
1:31.6	I don't want to hear this about your saving humanity by
1:34.1	stealing authors work. It's just not true. But open AI's biggest threat would
1:39.9	come from within. Today San San Francisco-based Open AI
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