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

“I think that’s less important than the question you were getting at, which is, do we need a way to do a slower kind of thinking, where the answer doesn’t have to get… I guess spiritually you could say that you want an AI to be able to think harder about a harder problem and answer more quickly about an easier problem. And I think that will be important.”

— 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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…Will it be similar architecturally as what we’re seeing now with LLMs? Is it a layer on top of LLMs? I can imagine many ways to implement that. I think that’s less important than the question you were getting at, which is, do we need a way to do a slower kind of thinking, where the answer doesn’t have to get… I guess spiritually you could say that you want an AI to be able to think harder about a harder problem and answer more quickly about an easier problem. And I think that will be important. Is that like a human thought that we just have and you should be able to think hard? Is that wrong intuition?…

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