Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedNat Friedman: uncertainty
22 Mar 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI
“I was CEO of GitHub at that time and I thought – I don't know what, but we've got to build some products with this.”
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- Nat Friedman
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- uncertainty
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- 22 Mar 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…So I want to go into the story of Co-pilot because until ChatGPT it was the most widely used application of the modern AI models. What are the parts of the story you're willing to share in public? Yeah, I've talked about this a little bit. GPT-3 came out in May of 2020. I saw it and it really blew my mind. I thought it was amazing. I was CEO of GitHub at that time and I thought – I don't know what, but we've got to build some products with this. And Satya had, at Kevin Scott's urging, already invested in OpenAI a year before GPT-3 came out. This is quite amazing. And he invested like a billion dollars. By the way, do you know why he knew that OpenAI would be worth investing at that point?…
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