The man who unleashed AI on an unsuspecting Silicon Valley

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the artificial intelligence company from nonprofit to kingmaker. Not everyone is happy with him.

Engineers at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company of which Altman is chief executive, had built a series of powerful AI tools that could generate complex texts and write computer code. But they weren’t sure about releasing it for public use as a chatbot fearing it wouldn’t resonate and wasn’t ready for prime time.Decisions at the company are usually made by consensus: employees debate, experts are consulted and eventually a joint conclusion is reached.

It’s a strange position to be in. Altman is one of the driving forces pushing AI tech forward and into the public’s hands, while also being vocal about the potential dangers of the technology, like the risk of AI displacing human jobs or rogue actors using it to supercharge misinformation campaigns. “It all comes down to what they think ‘benefiting all of humanity’ means,” said Alberto Romero, an analyst at AI research firm CambridgeAI who writes a newsletter about the industry. “Not everyone agrees with OpenAI’s definition.”

“People talk about AI as a technological revolution. It’s even bigger than that,” Altman said. “It’s going to be this whole thing that touches all aspects of society.” “He’s one of those rare people who manage to be both fearsomely effective and yet fundamentally benevolent,” Graham said in a blog post announcing the change.

“‘Well, I’d work with you,” Hoffman said. Altman pressed him, “And what if I continued to not do it well?” “We’d fire you,” Hoffman finally responded.In the same way he pushed Y Combinator to change and grow, Altman did the same at OpenAI. In 2019, he left the incubator to focus full-time on OpenAI. That was the year the company launched GPT2, and when Altman saw what the technology was capable of he realized it was time to double down on it.

AI researchers and some of OpenAI’s own employees were leery of the company’s transition. Months before the switch, it announced a new language model calledtrained on 10 times as much data as the company’s previous version. The company showed off the software’s ability to generate full news stories about fictitious events based on one-sentence prompts, but didn’t release it publicly, citing the risk of people using it for malicious purposes.

 

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He also looked the other way, as Elon Musk & Peter Thiel TORTURED MONKEYS TO DEATH (for days) at Neuralink. Never asked them to stop! All 'psychopaths'!

Big Leader... In the end there will be a virtual AI Head of State that nobody has ever seen, touched, or personally knows except on screen. No moral authority as well, the problem is who holds the plug like the Wizard of Oz with all his evil machinations

He looks exactly as one imagines he would

did he render most tech companies nonsense overnight? yes he did.

lol, lmao. Of course he's on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

There are people I love that I can't get close to. And there are people who love me but can't say yes

At least it is an American-owned company!

Fy fy fy

People out here like it's the end of civilisation as we know it and humans will have nothing do because AI will perform all tasks need to stop

Even the name of the company indicated they are non profit organization first now he sold to Microsoft

Cool

Hope billionaires are ok

He turned a nonprofit into a massive for profit enterprise lol, not exactly noble work

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