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The Times Tech Podcast

Stories of our times- Five days of chaos at ChatGPT HQ: The Sam Altman saga

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A special episode for your from our daily podcast from The Times:


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?   


Guest: Danny Fortson, West Coast Correspondent, The Sunday Times. 


Host: Manveen Rana.  


Listen to the Stories of Our Times podcast - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/podcasts/stories-of-our-times 


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0:00.0

Almost a year ago, a groundbreaking new technology captured the world's imagination.

0:13.0

Chat GPT, maybe you've heard of it. If you haven't, then get ready, because this promises

0:19.0

to be the viral sensation that could completely reset how we do things.

0:24.7

Chat GPT finally showed us how artificial intelligence could change our lives. It wrote poetry,

0:33.8

solved maths problems, composed music and churned out essays in moments.

0:40.3

Within five days of launching, it had a million users.

0:44.3

It now has more than a hundred million.

0:47.3

You can nail your next job interview using ChatGPT.

0:51.3

Have you tried using ChatGPT for meal planning? It's seriously so helpful.

0:56.0

The company behind it, OpenAI, is now driving the artificial intelligence revolution,

1:04.0

and the man leading it, Sam Altman, has been labeled the Oppenheimer of AI.

1:10.0

Let me ask you what your biggest nightmare is and whether you share that concern.

1:17.4

Like with all technological revolutions, I expect there to be significant impact on jobs, but

1:23.2

exactly what that impact looks like is very difficult to predict.

1:27.5

It was a dizzying trajectory.

1:31.5

Sam Altman had become the man world leaders wanted to hear from,

1:36.2

and his company was busy building our future.

1:40.8

It was all going so well until last Friday.

1:47.8

Holy shit. Sam Altman just got fired as OpenAI CEO.

1:53.2

And the drama didn't end there.

1:57.1

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has now got through three CEOs in almost as many days,

2:03.7

Sam Altman, Miramarati and Emmett Shear.

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