WN TBD: Did Money Corrupt an A.I. Utopia?

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🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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OpenAI was founded in 2015 with a billion dollars and an idealistic mission: Create artificial intelligence that could address humanity’s biggest problems, and do it out in the open. Then came the money problems. Guest: Karen Hao, senior A.I. reporter at MIT Tech Review Host Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	On December 11, 2015, Silicon Valley did what it does best,
0:38.5	announced a new kind of company that was supposed to change the world.
0:42.4	Its backers included Sam Altman, a near legendary investor and president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator,
0:49.6	and Elon Musk, who is, you know, Elon Musk.
0:53.8	The company was called OpenAI, and the idea simply put was to get artificial intelligence right.
1:00.9	It's something that both Altman and Musk talk about a lot.
1:04.2	Here's Altman last year.
1:06.2	What does it mean to build something that is more capable than ourselves?
1:09.6	Like, what does that say about our humanity?
1:11.2	What's that world going to look like? What's our place in that world?
1:13.8	How is that going to be equitably shared?
1:15.6	How do we make sure that it's not like a handful of people in San Francisco
1:19.2	making decisions and reaping all the benefits?
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