Thats not been the case for housing, or health care, or higher education. You are probably sitting there, or at least part of you is sitting there, looking at me, thinking like, I probably dont really believe this guy all the way. As an entrepreneur, Sam Altman is recognized for his association with Helion and Oklo. Slightly oversimplified but very close. But you say, were the experts on this. And these people who will then have so much more power, theyre going to offer themselves up for more taxation? So theres a question of how much money people can make and theres a question of how money gets made. can solve in the reasonably near term 10, 20 years pretty big societal problems? And maybe what you would say is thats not possible with that level of contribution of wealth. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sam-altman.html, Our Brains Werent Designed for This Kind of Food, Inside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial Intelligence, This Book Changed My Relationship to Pain. is really, really good at. In February 2014, he became the president of Y Combinator. The negative case is most people dont own very much equity or land. That was what it was worth. And I think there may be versions of that that we could get done as a policy conversation, where you say this is how its going to work now. Here are some tips and strategies that can be used when faced with the question 'What product should you build? I mean, we cant pass even simple things right now. And we made this room. 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. and. "Helion is more than an investment to me," Altman told TechCrunch. We have done incredible work with tools that have let us shoot past what wed be capable of without them. Very difficult. And I think everybody else should want that, too. Sure. But one of my observations from covering policy for a long time is policy reflects power. I dont want to pay anymore. So I do think were on a very steep curve. Sam Altman - Biography/Quick facts So there's a lot of enthusiasm for a much better Bay Area transit system.". I also think what we are likely to find is that a lot of classes of jobs that people talk about A.I. I think it is time to consider radically new ideas there. But I do think it is worth thinking about how many things like mRNA vaccines we have missed, or are still delayed, or came 10 years too late. But forms of communism, of socialism make a lot of planning, of ownership, make a lot more sense under the technological structure thats coming. So thats the pro case on capitalism is that that works really well. But I think something going on in California in the relationship between the state and the technology companies that are centered here, and something thats not going to be good for either side, is that as the increase in wealth inequality here rises, the sentiment changes. I think we have to do this. What is the force it exerts on economic activity? And I would say housing is primarily a zoning problem. Theres something going on that is not just physics. You think that it will physics is going to be up for debate at that point? changes the economy or changes peoples lives without using the word A.I.? As I understand what these systems are doing now, theyre predictive. Quality of the product: Sam Altman's startup playbook talks about the importance of quality in determining the future of the company. ChatGPT recently began testing a paid version of ChatGPT called "ChatGPT Professional" that is supposed to give better access to the bot. And part of the reason that has happened is things have gotten much cheaper. I dont actually subscribe to the Silicon Valley UBI will solve all problems. In March 2019, YCannounced Altman's transitioning into a Chairman position to focus more on OpenAI. But in order to do so, they have to build a way to determine whether someone is a unique human. 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. People can live elsewhere and still work for the most important companies in the industry that have been here. Altman says the system is not yet fully funded because many investors aren't on board with the project. medical advisors that give anyone really high quality medical advice, higher than they can maybe get anywhere in the world, A.I. So what are three books youd recommend to the audience to help the energy flow slightly differently through their neural networks? The A.I. Like for instance, you could imagine a prize system where the public sector puts out multibillion dollar prizes for solving this technological problem, this scientific problem. Do you I mean, youre somebody who thinks out on the frontier of this. Sam Altman's brother, Jack Altman, is a well-known figure in the technology industry as well. And I think with these very powerful general purpose A.I. And really I think the way that value gets created is the compounding effects of equity, basically. [LAUGHS] But I could tell you how were thinking about it and how I hope other people will, too. and How to be successful?'. We also discuss who is funding the A.I. If were sitting if we get together for coffee in 20 years and none of it happened, it all just stalled out, what is the likeliest reason youre going to give me for it? But let me put it this way. The Hyperloop is a transport system that Elon Musk's SpaceX is working to develop, where pods would whisk people through tubes at speeds over 700 miles per hour. The Ezra Klein Show is a production of New York Times Opinion. system or a plural. Reach out at story@startuptalky.com. You can correct them. But if we shift the frame a little bit and talk about we were talking about the environment earlier, so lets go back to that. In 10 years, I think we will have basically chat bots that work for an expert in any domain youd like. But the second then becomes, what are the governance structures that might work here, or the participatory or representative structures that might work here? His first batch of investments included Loopt. And I wish that didnt happen. But on the whole, as long as people are paying taxes and creating economic value, I want more of that. I need you to go book me this flight. [You can listen to this episode of The Ezra Klein Show on Apple, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.]. We dont know what those will be either. You think that you think certainly once you can just ask questions, at least those questions will be asked and theyll be answerable? 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. His argument is this: Since the 1970s, computers have gotten exponentially better even as theyre gotten cheaper, a phenomenon known as Moores Law. After raising more than $30million in venture capital, Loopt was shut down in 2012 after failing to get traction. But I think were going to do it. We made this microphone. Lets say someone invents some scientist invents something that gives everybody on Earth 20 years of extra great health span. Its always possible and maybe none of this happens. [35][36], According to reporting by Vox's Recode, there was speculation that Altman would run for Governor of California in the 2018 election, which he did not enter. Because Ive been pushing so far in this conversation on the problems of capitalism. Sam is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. And so better than a government paying you some fixed fee every month is where citizens of a country own a slice of the important asset classes of the future. 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). Yeah, I mean, I think were going to do it, too, because it seems like a good thing to do. 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. So you mentioned a minute ago lawyers. I think this is such a harder problem and in many ways more important problem than how were going to redistribute income and wealth. This fuelled the popularity of the community and the company on the bigger stage. And I mean, my worry I dont think there should be a trillionaire. is growing at a rate of 10X per year in terms of these model sizes and the associated capabilities. Some people get better entertainment and whatever, but they never get back the dignity, they never get back the money they were making. 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. Gmail is a free mail service provided by Google. The politics change. Sam Altman's contributions have been instrumental in OpenAI's progress and development in the field of AI. And that I dont think wed be in a position to have too much of an impact on. I mean, technology has already done a lot to help housing, I would say. He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 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. Lets deep dive to understand all the ways how Gmail makes money. "There are people that would be willing to invest in a transit system they felt more confident about," like his local idea, he tells CNBC Make It. But in order to get to that policy, you need the power to transfer first. I wouldnt like to see something this powerful done that way. And is replicable in a very big computer. 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. Thats great. is a great idea too. I dont really want China running one of these systems and I wouldnt have wanted Donald Trump running . But I sleep a little bit better at night knowing that were not torturing trillions of agents in simulation. But I do think that even without that incentive, a lot of great pro-social things will happen. Altman Realty. I think that if we cant get the politics and the policy right, it will face a lot of headwinds. Your account is fully activated, you now have access to all content. If we really do think about what it means to have intelligence in a computer, maybe its different. I think its so incredibly unfair. Samuel H. Altman (/ltmn/ AWLT-mn; born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor and programmer. And I was walking the streets of San Francisco one night at like 10:00 p.m. walking home and everybody was just like frolicking and doing their thing. Sam is the C.E.O. Why create the potential for this kind of intelligence and kind of suffering at all? And so the question of when do you not get sued for asking the question of your system, as opposed to of the lawyers, is to some degree a regulatory and judicial issue more than it is even a technological one. And Ill say more than that. Yeah, I would say I think there might be a more deeper tension there than you think. Companies and people get wealthier over time. Why not just create narrow worker machine learning programs? So thats the kind of pressure where I think things can change super quickly. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. So theres a lot that is being predicted, but right now its a mimicry. "It's the other thing beside OpenAI that I spend a lot of time on. [16], Altman said that he hoped to expand YCombinator to fund 1,000 new companies per year. I think its almost mechanical. And so getting the technologies right fast enough that they can actually solve the problems, you can really see there what it would have meant if we had not I dont think regulators did a crazy good job on this, but we got the vaccines out. My own version of that I remember sending an email to my entire family and saying, you need to go to the grocery store. doctor. And that is a massively transformative thing. Like CNBC Make It on Facebook. It doesnt precede it. The $43 million sale price was close to how much it had raised from investors. Health care is big in this. Sam Altman is regarded as one of the most influential entrepreneurs of all time. So theres a competition between you and other American companies. Its a great question, Ezra. I think somehow or other thats going to happen. But I think a lot of these things really come down to, A, do you believe that a sense of self exists at all or is everything just like theres this body, and theres this brain, and theres energy flowing through a neural network in your head like there could be in a computer. ", Mark Andreessen, cofounder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said, "Under Sam, the level of YC's ambition has gone up 10x. [19] YC Research has thus far announced research on basic income, the future of computing, education, and building new cities. And I think thats a pretty big issue. short stories? "If we make it easier to quickly travel longer distances in/out of work hubs, the intense demand for housing can be diffused to communities that can handle it," says Altman, in a blog post published in August, on what he terms the "big housing problem in California." And then theres a fair amount of regulatory questions in both of them. And as that is running, it creates this illusion of a sense of self that is getting tortured but it really is not there at all and that its all the same thing. He told TechCrunch that he's "happy there's a fusion race," to build a low-cost fusion energy system that can eventually power the Earth. Look, its not a popular moment to say something positive about capitalism, but I will anyway. A little known fact, we tried to get the public sector to fund us before we went to the capped profit model. We made the internet. taking away stay, but the role of the human is very different. And also and I mean this as exactly as important what do we want from it as a public and how do we get that from it? [20], Altman was named the top investor under 30 by Forbes magazine in 2015,[21] one of the "Best Young Entrepreneurs in Technology" by Businessweek magazine in 2008[22] and listed as one of the five most interesting startup founders between 1979 and 2009 by his colleague Paul Graham.[23]. If youre right about what the systems can do, definitely that will create wealth, right? could be developed is what people call multi-agentally. Probably the non-technical thing I think most about is lets say we do make the true AGI, like the one from the sci-fi movies. And I hope that we are in the late stage of the twilight of factory farming. Sam said that he hoped to expand Y Combinator to fund 1,000 new companies per year. Theyre largely proposals to tax wealth and land. How to be Successful? I also think and this is deep into the realm of speculation that certainly, I think, as humans have become more knowledgeable, and wise, and smarter, we seem to be less willing to inflict random pain on each other and maybe animals than we were . My understanding of the way the A.I. 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. How can we work together to make sure we all have the time we need? [31] The organization was initially funded by Altman, Brockman, Elon Musk, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services, Infosys and YCResearch. We build tools so that we can do better than we can do with our hands digging up the dirt or whatever. Before that, he was well known in Silicon Valley as president of startup accelerator And its not all going to happen overnight, but I do think this is a real its a real question for me and its one reason Ive become in some ways what I want to see is a politics on the left, or on the progressive side, that is simultaneously more pro technology but is trying to take a stronger hand in predicting and then guiding that technology. Upheaval to me is about how quickly it happens. doing work is close to zero once youve created this model, which requires huge amounts of capital, and expertise, and difficulty, and data to do. 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. But it sometimes seems to me that the harder thing to see from the outside of where all these are going is how flexible they are or they will become in being able to understand the way I want them to make a prediction. His contributions caught the eye of co-founder Paul Graham, who named Sam as the president of Y Combinator. Instead of building a super-fast regional train, Altman suggests redirecting those resources to build up more robust local train systems, enabling people to commute more efficiently. And to me it gets to the thing you were saying about generalized systems. Theres no way that any neural network running in Silicon could ever suffer and its a ridiculous question. would change the geopolitical balance of power, whether we should allow trillionaires, why the political debate over A.I. 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