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Sam Altman

What Sam Altman thinks about innovation

@sam-altman · 65 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  1. Our readingAI represents the largest change to society in a very long time, perhaps ever.

    Their wordswe are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long time, and perhaps ever.

    ↗-blog.samaltman.com 1st of 3 in this piece

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  3. Our readingThe gap between GPT-5 and GPT-4 will be as large as the gap between GPT-4 and GPT-3, and the job is to live a few years ahead and remember that today's tools will look terrible from there.

    OpenAI

    Their wordsI expect that the delta between 5 and 4 will be the same as between 4 and 3 and I think it is our job to live a few years in the future and remember that the tools we have now are going to kind of suck looking backwards at them and that’s how we make sure the future is better.

    ↗Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419youtube.com 7th of 20 in this recording

  5. Our readingAI should be released iteratively rather than built in secret, because AI and surprise do not go together and the world needs time to adapt before it is under the gun.

    OpenAI

    Their wordsSo part of the reason that we deploy the way we do, we call it iterative deployment, rather than go build in secret until we got all the way to GPT-5, we decided to talk about GPT-1, 2, 3, and 4. And part of the reason there is I think AI and surprise don’t go together. And also the world, people, institutions, whatever you want to call it, need time to adapt and think about these things.

    ↗Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419youtube.com 8th of 20 in this recording

  7. Our readingMost real economic growth comes from scientific and technological progress, so the AI that matters is the one that significantly increases the rate of scientific discovery.

    Their wordsI think when a system can significantly increase the rate of scientific discovery in the world, that’s a huge deal. I believe that most real economic growth comes from scientific and technological progress.

    ↗Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419youtube.com 17th of 20 in this recording