person / likes
Ilya
“I do think one of the many things that I really love about Ilya is he takes AGI and the safety concerns, broadly speaking, including things like the impact this is going to have on society, very seriously.”
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Sam Altman
CEO · OpenAI
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- 128
- Episodes
- 5
- Shows
- 3
- Named items
- 2
Books, apps, and tools
The evidenced stack.
book / uses
The Mind of Napoleon
“In fact, the best book I read last year is called The Mind of Napoleon, which is a book of quotes about his views on everything.”
Claim ledger
What Sam said.
13 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
I suspect that there will be a new way to interact with a cluster of ideas that is better than a book for most things.
“I suspect that there will be a new way to interact with a cluster of ideas that is better than a book for most things.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Episode
- Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
02 / evaluation
I think I grew up as a child of the internet with a lot of conviction that that was the right kind of internet.
“I think I grew up as a child of the internet with a lot of conviction that that was the right kind of internet.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Episode
- Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
03 / evaluation
I kind of dashed this tweet off and closed my computer, and it didn’t even hit my mind that it was going to be, really, a firestorm. It was that we made a decision, which I also think was a fair one, over the summer, that because there were new problems, and that particularly because we wanted to protect teenage users, we were going to heavily restrict ChatGPT, which is also always a very unpopular thing to do, and along with the rolling out of age-gating and some of these mental health mitigations, we were going to bring back and in some cases increase freedom of use for adults.
“I kind of dashed this tweet off and closed my computer, and it didn’t even hit my mind that it was going to be, really, a firestorm. It was that we made a decision, which I also think was a fair one, over the summer, that because there were new problems, and that particularly because we wanted to protect teenage users, we were going to heavily restrict ChatGPT, which is also always a very unpopular thing to do, and along with the rolling out of age-gating and some of these mental health mitigations, we were going to bring back and in some cases increase freedom of use for adults.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Episode
- Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
04 / evaluation
Sometimes we're right, often we're not. But, if something starts working, or if something doesn't work that you thought was gonna work, our willingness to just say, we're gonna like, pivot everything, and do what the science allows, and you don't get to like, pick what the science allows?
“Sometimes we're right, often we're not. But, if something starts working, or if something doesn't work that you thought was gonna work, our willingness to just say, we're gonna like, pivot everything, and do what the science allows, and you don't get to like, pick what the science allows?”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Latent Space
05 / evaluation
It was nine and then it went down to six, and then we couldn’t agree on who to add. And the board also I think didn’t have a lot of experienced board members, and a lot of the new board members at OpenAI have just have more experience as board members.
“It was nine and then it went down to six, and then we couldn’t agree on who to add. And the board also I think didn’t have a lot of experienced board members, and a lot of the new board members at OpenAI have just have more experience as board members.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
06 / evaluation
I think that’s a way more interesting, impactful, important question than how many jobs AI can do because it is a tool that will work at increasing levels of sophistication and over longer and longer time horizons for more and more tasks and let people operate at a higher level of abstraction.
“I think that’s a way more interesting, impactful, important question than how many jobs AI can do because it is a tool that will work at increasing levels of sophistication and over longer and longer time horizons for more and more tasks and let people operate at a higher level of abstraction.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
07 / evaluation
I think the question behind that question is, do people who create valuable data deserve to have some way that they get compensated for use of it, and that I think the answer is yes.
“I think the question behind that question is, do people who create valuable data deserve to have some way that they get compensated for use of it, and that I think the answer is yes.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
08 / evaluation
In fact, one of the things that I used to have and was super valuable was I used to have a good map of all or most of the frontiers in the tech industry. And I could sometimes see these connections or new things that were possible that if I were only deep in one area, I wouldn’t be able to have the idea for because I wouldn’t have all the data.
“In fact, one of the things that I used to have and was super valuable was I used to have a good map of all or most of the frontiers in the tech industry. And I could sometimes see these connections or new things that were possible that if I were only deep in one area, I wouldn’t be able to have the idea for because I wouldn’t have all the data.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
09 / evaluation
I have a funny metric on that. It probably doesn’t work for most people, but it is the number of times I get stopped on the street for a selfie.
“I have a funny metric on that. It probably doesn’t work for most people, but it is the number of times I get stopped on the street for a selfie.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
10 / evaluation
There’s lots of reasons the analogy doesn’t work, but this idea that a lot of things go wrong, you are unflappable, you never lose your cool, you know how to react.
“There’s lots of reasons the analogy doesn’t work, but this idea that a lot of things go wrong, you are unflappable, you never lose your cool, you know how to react.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
11 / evaluation
I have thought a lot about this because the correlation is clear, that one of the most fun things about YC is that, I think, we have more data points on what successful founders and bad founders look like than any other organization has had in the history of the world.
“I have thought a lot about this because the correlation is clear, that one of the most fun things about YC is that, I think, we have more data points on what successful founders and bad founders look like than any other organization has had in the history of the world.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
12 / evaluation
I think that’s actually the most common mistake to make in life. It is true that we are in a lull right now, but it is absolutely, categorically false that — unless the world gets destroyed in a very short term — that we will not have a bigger technological wave then we’ve ever had before.
“I think that’s actually the most common mistake to make in life. It is true that we are in a lull right now, but it is absolutely, categorically false that — unless the world gets destroyed in a very short term — that we will not have a bigger technological wave then we’ve ever had before.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
13 / evaluation
I think our greatest differentiator is not how we identify talent, although I will answer that question, but the fact that we treat our own business — we run Y Combinator in the way that we tell our startups to run as a successful startup, which almost no venture capital firm does.
“I think our greatest differentiator is not how we identify talent, although I will answer that question, but the fact that we treat our own business — we run Y Combinator in the way that we tell our startups to run as a successful startup, which almost no venture capital firm does.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler