He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. And you can even say I mean, you could probably say, write this in the style of Ezra Klein, and it would probably just do it. Web1531 Longworth House Office uilding Washington, D 20515 Phone: (202) 225-4872 Senate District Sen. Lana Theis (R) 7400 insfeld ldg. So I will ask you, what do you think it takes to get something like this in place? Samuel H. Altman (/ltmn/ AWLT-mn; born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor and programmer. And so if I basically understand how GPT-3 works, its a system that has read a lot of stuff on the internet. But the second then becomes, what are the governance structures that might work here, or the participatory or representative structures that might work here? And when youre on an exponential curve, you should generally, in my opinion, take the assumption that its going to keep going. Gmail is a free mail service provided by Google. Fundamentally, I think people worry are we going to mistreat the A.I. And given the way weve named things after people forever I mean, go to a sports stadium around this country I didnt even really care that it got named after him. Web2266 Rayburn House Office uilding Washington, D 20515 (202) 225-6276 Senate District Sen. Dale Zorn (R) 5100 insfeld uilding (517) 373-3543 Sendzorn@senate.michigan.gov I think its going to be somewhere in between these narrow models that anybody creates and these mega models that only a few people can create. I dont think they did a crazy good or a crazy bad job on this one, but I do think theyve done a crazy bad job on a lot of other medical innovations that could have saved a lot of lives where something has gone wrong in terms of our risk tolerance for those. Altman is asking for digital signatures on his petition to redirect bullet train funding of those who support the idea as a way to measure its popularity. Theres others who would say quite the opposite, which is that there will never be a sense of self in a there is a self. So youre like, I need a contract that says this. could get us closer to Moores Law for everything: it could make everything better even as it makes it cheaper. "I like to be a responsible citizen. Sam Altman is regarded as one of the most influential entrepreneurs of all time. He was the CEO of Reddit for around eight days. He was the one who announced the return of Steve Huffman as the CEO of Reddit on July 10, 2015. AGI in this context stands for artificial general intelligence. Which is that could we invent it? So that last piece is a piece I want to focus on, that marginal cost of zero. [You can listen to this episode of The Ezra Klein Show on Apple, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.]. Therefore, it is not known whether he is married, single, or divorced. He has over 15 years of investment, operational, and transaction experience. that can improve itself and learn and actually do all sorts of things in the economy and in the world. Lets deep dive to understand all the ways how Gmail makes money. Thats . But let me put it this way. Altman said OpenAI had "never made any revenue," and that it had "no current plans to make revenue.". The field of entrepreneurship is more of a roller coaster ride with various personalities and stories. And people will say thats wild. I dont think anyones ever figured out what a global democratic governance system looks like. But I think you can certainly make a case now that the giant tech companies are more powerful than many countries, certainly not the U.S. yet. But what caught my eye about this essay, Moores Law for Everything, is Altmans effort to try and imagine the political consequences of true artificial intelligence and the policies that could decide whether it ushers in utopia or dystopia. He serves as the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator. Im curious if you agree with the first two if you think the first two things are going to happen. He was born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis, Missouri by his parents Connie Gibstine and Altman. However, the company shut down in 2012 due to a lack of traction and was later acquired by Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million. Thats part of the governance question. So I do think were on a very steep curve. And if we take all the speculation out of something like A.I. "So they'd like the ability to live an hour outside of San Francisco in a much cheaper area but be able to get into the city to work. Or will they fight it tooth-and-nail? Two things. Maybe. will make owners of capital and land much more powerful. Successful companies and popularity: Sam Altman says that the most successful companies like. And that means only a couple groups are big enough to build these general intelligence systems, assuming they do get built. But maybe now it costs a couple of cents of electricity for the computer to think or less. Itll take us a while to figure out theres a lot of complexity there maybe. I think we need something fundamentally new. But yeah, I think if the country were working a different way I would say a better way this would be a public sector project. Sam Altman, Real Estate Broker, Lake Homes for Sale ALTMAN REALTY has (7) lake real estate ads listed on LakeHouse.com Sam Altman ALTMAN REALTY 475 Elk Lake Resort Rd Suite 24 Owenton, Kentucky 40359 +1 502-484-4411 Contact Agent SAM ALTMAN specialize in ELK LAKE HOMES & LAND #1 SELLING AGENT His contributions caught the eye of co-founder Paul Graham, who named Sam as the president of Y Combinator. [18] Also in October 2015, Altman announced YCombinator Research, a non-profit research lab, and donated $10million to the group. People have quite different opinions on this. So where someone like OpenAI creates this powerful base model that only a few organizations in the world can do, but then maybe want to use that for a chatbot, or a customer service agent, or a creative multiplayer video game. Maybe. Now, it may be that this time its different, right? Elon Musk told The New York Times in 2015. But what if theres huge public sector pressure? Higher education is huge. He believes he is bringing a world into existence that is really, really different than the one you and I know and that its going to happen fast. Two is that someones going to do it. The portion of the bullet train that will run from Silicon Valley to Central Calif. is already under construction. I mean, we cant pass even simple things right now. Yeah, taxing income fighting over the rate on income tax is so the wrong way to be thinking about this. Unlike paying cash transfers, I think if youre actually transferring shares in these companies and the accumulating wealth there, or the ownership of land, or whatever else, that actually transfers some of the power over time, too. We made the internet. And you can also teach them stuff. California is my home. that can suffer. Is there a different kind of pressure that comes from the geopolitical push? And for a generation that has had a lot of, I think, economic headwinds and a deck stacked against them, I think this is a specific thing we can imagine that gets a lot of peoples lives way better pretty quickly. So last year, OpenAI released something called GPT-3. We have terrible schools, terrible roads, traffic. Do you think Ai is already running [12] In February 2014, Altman was named president of YCombinator by its co-founder, Paul Graham. My family, when I grew up, a lot of it was in Brazil. But the arc of this has been that every technological revolution eliminates one class, one sets of jobs, and we find new ones on the other side that are hard to imagine from where we sit today. If you walk into one of these rooms and you you know, theyre like, oh, I want to learn from you. The subscription is only available for people in the US, and OpenAI said it will soon start inviting people on the waitlist to join. So before we had the computer, it would have been hard to imagine the computer programmer would be such an important profession. And there werent that many and they had a lot of you needed it and that was the market. So lets start where we are now. In the Industrial Revolution, when the joint stock corporation was created as this second order sovereign entity, everyone was OK with that, because it was second order and the real sovereign had more power. But then I look at the past year and I see a lot of failures of governance followed by a gigantic success of mRNA vaccines. I have misgivings about that. The $43 million sale price was close to how much it had raised from investors. Go back over the past few hundred years. So for instance, Im pretty high on the idea that maybe wage labor is an intermediate step in human society and wouldnt it be great if we got past the point where it was widely needed. I think this is such a harder problem and in many ways more important problem than how were going to redistribute income and wealth. revolution, the business models these systems will use (and the dangers of those business models), how A.I. You hear it a lot. Like CNBC Make It on Facebook. Im partially doing these shows for this reason that its just not something that I think is enough part of the political conversation. If this is going to be one of these species-defining moments, it for sure should not be in the hands of a company, certainly not ours. Sam Altman - Professional Life as an Entrepreneur, Sam Altman - Professional Life as an Investor, Sam Altman - Association with Nuclear Energy, How to be Successful? I think its almost mechanical. Labor then in this case, extremely high-skilled and highly paid labor all of a sudden has a lot less power, because the services are avA.I.lable at a wildly different cost. Theres no way that any neural network running in Silicon could ever suffer and its a ridiculous question. And my concern is that to the extent there is a Washington conversation over artificial intelligence is one of the set of technologies Im interested in and worried about. [30], Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, which is a capped-profit research company whose goal is to advance artificial intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, rather than cause harm. And humans are very bad at intuition for this. And my understanding, my belief is that you are energy flowing through a neural network. And whether that world becomes a post-scarcity utopia or a feudal dystopia hinges on how wealth, power and dignity are then distributed it hinges, in other words, on politics. It is produced by Jeff Geld, Roge Karma, and Annie Galvan. Despite its potential, Altman said AGI, or artificial general intelligence, comes with "serious risk of misuse, drastic accidents, and societal disruption." Despite the competition, Loopt was successful in securing over $30 million in venture capital. Sam Altman received his early education at John Burroughs School and completed his high school studies there. The startup, founded by Sam and Alex Blania, intends to put a special type of cryptocurrency (crypto wallet) onto every humans smartphone. We made this microphone. And they are freed from some of the geographic constraint. And so then you have this kind of branching possibility, which is either very high standards of living for everyone or not. Sam Altman has been openly gay since his youth. Product building: According to Sam Altman, one should build a product that is so good that people share the story about it with their friends. With U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Lansing) announcing Monday that she is officially running for an open U.S. Senate seat next year, theres no shortage of And weve gone from a world where many of the experts in the field said that was sci-fi and irresponsible to talk about to clear existential proof that we have it. OpenAI is a for-profit research company whose goal is to advance digital intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, rather than cause harm, which Sam co-founded with Elon Musk and others. A different example and one that I think is in some ways easier to see the problems with is Mark Zuckerberg gives a huge amount of money to a hospital, names it after himself, and then theres this fight and the I think it was the board of supervisors that voted to condemn the name of the hospital. Because if hes right and I assign a real possibility that he is right, at least to some degree then A.I., its not just going to redistribute wealth and jobs, its going to redistribute power. No computer system can solve a political problem, but it can create alternatives. But they dont have any kind of democratically governed system. I think the recombinant DNA conversations in the 70s are a good example. I dont really think its a question that is answerable. It's unclear what Altman's current net worth is. Do you I mean, youre somebody who thinks out on the frontier of this. The fact that this is going to happen, that were going to help engineer, or merge with or something, our own descendants that are going to be capable of things that we literally cannot imagine. Today, Sam Altmans primary focus in OpenAI. But I think were going to do it. What is the force it exerts on economic activity? So theres an incentive to get there first. [15] In September 2014, Altman announced that he would become president of YCGroup, which included YCombinator and other units. If were spending 40% of GDP on health care, but everybody is living a healthy life till 200, maybe its fine. But then how do you decide how much theyre allowed to make? Or to put it more simply, that computer power has been growing exponentially for decades now. If we really do think about what it means to have intelligence in a computer, maybe its different. You. When I asked Ted Chiang about AGI, he said something Ive been thinking about since. I want you to make me an animated short or a photo realistic short that looks like this. This is a conversation, then, about the political economy of the next technological age. ", Mark Andreessen, cofounder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said, "Under Sam, the level of YC's ambition has gone up 10x. It becomes a for-profit, in part, because it needs to raise money and resources. I mean, it works for you. A Division of NBC Universal, Here's why a Silicon Valley tech exec says to fix Californias housing crisis, scrap the $64 billion bullet train. "By the time it's completed, we will have new and much better technology, like high-speed self-driving cars, electric airplanes, and maybe even Hyperloops," he writes. We may or may not be on the cusp of one of those times now. Here are some tips and strategies that can be used when faced with the question 'What product should you build? And that fully aside from how human beings will be treated in this world, the actual A.I. His efforts have helped many companies to make a big mark in the startup ecosystem. This is embarrassing. 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Welcome back! I mean, through politics, right? How can we work together to make sure we all have the time we need? Now, there is a challenge that comes with the point you were making about a lot of power comes with that, too. And that was what people were able to command. He shares responsibility for all investment activities of the firm. Its hard for me to imagine . Health is a really big one. So there are topics we know how to talk about in Washington from a policy perspective. If you can build a product that is so good that people spontaneously tell their friends about it, then 80% of the job is done, says Sam. Why not just create narrow worker machine learning programs? Altman is an investor in many companies, including Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Asana, Pinterest, Teespring, Zenefits, FarmLogs, True North, Shoptiques, Instacart, Optimizely, Verbling, Soylent, Reserve, Vicarious, Clever, and Notable PDF (now Kami). 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