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Sam Altman: commitment

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

“We have to really focus. And also, robots were hard for the wrong reason at the time, but we will return to robots in some way at some point.”

— Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
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18 Mar 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…I mean, OpenAI has some history and quite a bit of history working in robotics, but it hasn’t quite done in terms of ethics- We’re a small company. We have to really focus. And also, robots were hard for the wrong reason at the time, but we will return to robots in some way at some point. That sounds both inspiring and menacing.…

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