My first interview with @sama, Co-Founder of @OpenAI.
0:04 How to start a startup
3:30 Trusting exponentials
4:57 Operating in chaotic environments
6:12 Learning to enjoy painful experiences
8:03 Creating abundant intelligence
11:15 Keeping core suppliers on OpenAI’s timelines
12:10 Invention of the joint-stock company
15:30 The best CEOs aren’t sociopaths
16:46 We are in the singularity
18:09 AI authoritarianism vs liberty
19:24 Texting 300-400 people a day
20:32 Having a small number of deep beliefs about the future
21:41 Critical path
22:25 Thinking about what’s next
23:38 Getting on planes in marginal situations
28:16 Buying lots of compute
30:51 Ambition
34:00 Google shouldn’t have let OpenAI survive
37:54 Having his life shot through a cannon after the launch of ChatGPT
41:20 The growth of Codex
42:02 The Death Star tweet
44:46 Status games and desire to be useful
47:57 Not being ambitious enough on compute investments
50:26 Execution
51:45 Ask for what you want
54:11 First few weeks of OpenAI
55:15 Shutting down Sora to focus on Codex
57:44 Designing beautiful products
59:01 Getting addicted to TikTok
1:01:03 Inventing a new device
1:02:53 Try to get better at your strengths
1:05:57 Masa is an n of 1
1:07:11 Real trends vs fake trends
personally i am not really impressed when a computer is good at math — since a computer is math . i am a lot more intrigued by things like , for example , a rat being an exceptional cook — since that’s not really expected
@Oluwafunmii_O Fair point, Funmi.
But I've been on the "accelerate or die" train the past couple of months.
Being a new dad radicalized me. Sorta.
Gotta keep optimizing self to earn that "Best dad in the world" t-shirt in 50s.
The Google Brain (& @GoogleDeepMind) team back in 2015 feels like a stronger fit to this picture: Andrej Karpathy, Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Noam Shazeer, Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman, Jeff Dean, Andrew Ng, Greg Corrado, Geoffrey Hinton, Ashish Vaswani, Jakob Uszkoreit, Łukasz Kaiser, Niki Parmar, Aidan Gomez.
Being a Polymath and having ADHD in the age of AI means forgetting about competition.
You are the creator of your own game you just keep playing having joy and win in the long run.