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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: observation
6 Sept 2023 Acquired Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)
“The third layer of the problem is this sucks for the world, that all these people are locked up in Google and Facebook.”
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- David Rosenthal
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- observation
- Recorded
- 6 Sept 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
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…That feels like an interesting question. It’s probably a couple of steps too far in the conclusion, but still a fun straw man to think about. A fun straw man. Nonetheless, this is definitely a problem. The third layer of the problem is this sucks for the world, that all these people are locked up in Google and Facebook. This is probably a good time to mention, this founding of OpenAI was motivated by the desire to find AGI (artificial general intelligence) first before the big tech companies did. And DeepMind was the same thing. It was going to be this winding and circuitous path at the time since really nobody knew then or knows now the best path to get to AGI. But the big idea at Open AI’s founding was whoever figures out and finds AGI first will be so big and so powerful so quickly, they’ll have an immense amount of control, and that is best in the open.…
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