Sam Altman: commitment

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…If you have some kind of ideal arrangement, partnership with an institution of higher education, say, within two to three years, what does that look like? You get to write the whole thing. I suspect that the whole model should change, but I don’t know what to. I think the ideal partnership would look like we try 20 different experiments. We see what leads to the best results. I’ve been watching these AI schools pop up with great interest. It seems like a lot of them with very different approaches are all showing positive results. I think the first few years of the ideal partnership would look like we run 20 wildly different experiments. Sometimes I have the fear that these institutions don’t have enough internal reputational strength or credibility to make any major change, forget about AI, and that to do a partnership with an institution like that is maybe intrinsically frustrating, and for the next 10 years, the actual model is privatized AI use on the side by faculty, by students, by labs, and in a sense there is no partnership other than actually just marketing your product to these people. Do you ever think that might be true?…

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