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How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery
4.8 • 31.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
From Wondery, Business Wars is a podcast about the biggest corporate rivalries. In the newest season, host David Brown tracks the power struggles and philosophical differences within OpenAI that culminated in Sam Altman’s shocking firing, the chaos that followed, and what it means not just for OpenAI, but for the future of artificial intelligence safety overall.
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| 0:00.0 | Recent advancements in AI have captured our imaginations. |
| 0:03.6 | With the launch of ChagGBT, Sam Altman, and Open AI brought us closer to our dreams and fears |
| 0:09.4 | of a world with artificial intelligence. |
| 0:11.5 | Open AI was founded with a mandate to build AI for the good of |
| 0:15.4 | humanity and it was funded with billions of dollars of investment from the likes of |
| 0:19.7 | Microsoft. The company and its Charismatic CEO Samman, who I've spoken to on this |
| 0:24.4 | podcast, seemed to be leading the charge into an exciting and for many |
| 0:28.4 | terrifying future. But after a restructure shifted the corporate mandate from a non-profit organization to a for-profit business, |
| 0:36.4 | some leaders inside the company felt that Altman had become too focused on commercialization. |
| 0:41.5 | Some also believed that AI would soon be autonomous |
| 0:44.9 | and with mounting concerns around safety for the public, open AI's chief scientist |
| 0:49.6 | staged a coup which led to Altman's shocking ouster in only five days. |
| 0:54.0 | From Wundery, Business Wars is a podcast about the biggest corporate rivalries. |
| 0:59.0 | In the newest season, host David Brown tracks the power struggles and philosophical differences within open |
| 1:05.0 | AI that culminated in Sam Alton's shocking firing, the chaos that followed, and what it means |
| 1:10.8 | not just for open AI, but for the future of artificial intelligence overall. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm about to play a clip from the newest season of Business Wars, Sam Altman, and the Battle for |
| 1:19.6 | AI. |
| 1:20.6 | Follow Business Wars on the Wundery app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:24.0 | You can listen early and add free right now by joining Wundry Plus. It's just before noon on Friday, November 17th, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Open AI CEO Sam Altman hustles into his hotel suite on the Las Vegas Strip. |
| 1:50.0 | He's 38 years old, with a small elf and frame and large blue eyes. |
| 1:55.0 | Over the past year, he's become one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley. |
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