Sam Altman & the Battle for OpenAI | Misalignment | 1

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

From the outside, OpenAI looked like one of Silicon Valley’s biggest success stories. In 2022, it had stunned the world with the release of ChatGPT3.5, leapfrogging some of the biggest tech companies to be an industry leader in artificial intelligence. But, inside the company walls trouble was brewing. Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever had increasing concerns about the speed at which OpenAI was commercializing and releasing AI products. He worried about the direction AI was heading and the impact it would have on the future of humanity.

In November 2023, Sutskever reached his breaking point. His actions would have a tumultuous effect.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of Business Wars, ad free right now.
0:06.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. It's just before noon on Friday, November 17th, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
0:25.0	Open AI CEO Sam Altman hustles into his hotel suite on the Las Vegas Strip.
0:32.0	He's 38 years old with a small
0:35.8	elf and frame and large blue eyes. Over the past year he's become one of the most
0:40.9	powerful people in Silicon Valley.
0:44.1	In November 2022, Open AI released ChatGPT version 3.5,
0:50.3	a chatbot that can write code, answer questions, and even tell jokes,
0:55.0	all while seeming uncannily human.
0:58.0	Within a year, this iteration of chat gPT has gained roughly 100 million users. It has leapfrogged giant
1:06.5	tech companies like Google and Meta to become the leading artificial
1:10.5	intelligence company in the world.
1:13.8	Altman is now the poster child for the artificial intelligence industry,
1:18.0	and he's not standing still.
1:19.8	He spent the past year jet setting around the globe to meet with world leaders and the press,
1:24.8	pitching new ideas for how to push AI forward.
1:29.3	Altman sits down at the desk in his hotel room and flips open his laptop.
1:34.8	He searches through his emails looking for a link to join a video call.
1:39.6	Last night, Altman received a text from Open AI's chief scientist and board member
1:44.2	Ilea Sutskiver asking Altman to join a board meeting at noon.
1:48.4	Sutskiver didn't say what the meeting would be about, but Altman knows that Sutskiver and other members of the board
1:54.8	feel that Open AI is moving too fast and should be cautious about what products they push
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