The Possibilities of AI [Entire Talk]
Culture
AI opportunities are just beginning. The future holds risks and rewards.
Duration
45:48
Part of Series
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
Season
Season 23
Episode
3
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Altman gives advice for aspiring AI entrepreneurs and shares his insights about the opportunities and risks of AI tools and artificial general intelligence.
Video clips from: The Possibilities of AI [Entire Talk]
- 1:32As AI models get more capable, the bar to deploy them responsibly is higher.
- 2:20Being contrarian and wrong still is wrong.
- 45:48AI opportunities are just beginning. The future holds risks and rewards.
- 1:57Learn to trust yourself and come up with your own ideas.
- 2:59Losing money doesn’t matter if AI technology can stay on the trajectory to create more value for society.
- 1:20In the future we may think of access to AI compute as a human right.
- 1:40We know to look out for the cataclysmic dangers of AGI, but we shouldn’t overlook more subtle dangers.