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Sam Altman: prediction

18 Mar 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

“I think there will come a point where that’s- I think there will come a point where that’s mostly what we think about, the whole company.”

— Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
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prediction
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18 Mar 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…So what, in general, is the process for the bigger question of safety? How do you provide that layer that protects the model from doing crazy, dangerous things? I think there will come a point where that’s- I think there will come a point where that’s mostly what we think about, the whole company. And it’s not like you have one safety team. It’s like when we shipped GPT-4, that took the whole company thinking about all these different aspects and how they fit together. And I think it’s going to take that. More and more of the company thinks about those issues all the time. That’s literally what humans will be thinking about, the more powerful AI becomes. So most of the employees at OpenAI will be thinking, “Safety,” or at least to some degree.…

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