Turbulence at OpenAI — Our Take-Aways
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Felix and Mihir discuss how Sam Altman was fired and reinstated over the course of just a few days. Was the board right to dismiss Altman? Does the turmoil change how we think about hybrid organizations that combine nonprofit and for-profit motives? What does the episode teach us about the future of AI? Plus, we look at the reasons why men now die even earlier than women. What do the numbers say about being male today?
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. |
| 0:09.0 | We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond. |
| 0:14.4 | Please visit survey.PRX.org slash after hours to take the survey today. |
| 0:21.0 | That's survey. |
| 0:22.1 | PRX.org |
| 0:23.4 | slash after hours I'm Felix I'm me here and it's just the two of us. Yes. I'm so relieved to have you back Felix. |
| 0:44.5 | After the coup by our sound engineer Peter Lanane he fired you and then we had to fight to get you back. |
| 0:51.6 | I was ready to quit the podcast when he fired you. Anyway, I'm glad we got it all sorted out. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm guessing you're thinking of Open AI? Indeed. We just lived through this remarkable news cycle and I wanted to know what you learned about the world. |
| 1:06.2 | Forget about the specific little events, but what it made you think about the way the world works today. |
| 1:11.4 | What's it like for you? something really dramatic like that happens? Is it all |
| 1:15.9 | consuming? You're on Twitter 24-7? Actually I have the opposite reaction. I kind of want to hold it at arm's length because it's so consuming. |
| 1:25.0 | I'll actually follow other stories, you know, in a way more passionately and then when it |
| 1:28.8 | calms down I want to think about it a little bit more. What about you? |
| 1:31.6 | Yeah, same for me. |
| 1:33.0 | I can't really do the step by step back and forth. |
| 1:36.1 | Also because in retrospect so much of it seems meaningless. |
| 1:40.4 | And so I like to see things play it out and so in that sense it's a great opportunity that sometime has passed and we can think about it. |
| 1:48.0 | Great. And what else did you want to talk about Felix? |
| 1:50.0 | I wanted to talk about new data that we have on mortality rates. |
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