Sam Altman: recommendation

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…But you want to do it, nonetheless. No. I want to discover new science and figure out a way to monetize that that you can only do with the smartest model. There is a question of, many people have asked, “Should OpenAI do ChatGPT at all? Why don’t you just go build AGI? Why don’t you go discover a cure for every disease, nuclear fusion, cheap rockets, the whole thing, and just license that technology?” It is not an unfair question because I believe that is the stuff that we will do that will be most important and make the most money eventually, but my story, my most likely story about how this works, how the world gets dramatically better, is we put a really great superintelligence in the hands of everybody. We make it super easy to use. It’s nicely integrated. We make you beautiful devices. We connect it to all your services. It gets to know you over your life. It does all the stuff for you. We invest in infrastructure and chips, and energy, and the whole thing to make it super abundant and super cheap. Then you all figure out how the world gets way better. Maybe some people will only ever book hotels and not do anything else, but a lot of people will figure out they can do more and more stuff and create new companies and ideas and art and whatever. Maybe ChatGPT and hotel booking and whatever else is not the best way we can make money. In fact, I’m certain it’s not. I do think it’s a very important thing to do for the world. I’m happy for OpenAI to do some things that are not the economic-maxing thing. Now, you have a deal in the works with Walmart that people can use GPT, ask it questions, “What should I buy at Walmart?” and then they can buy it at Walmart, and you and Walmart have some arrangement. Do you think Amazon will fold and join that, or are they going to fight back and try to do their own thing?…

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