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Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC

Connie Loizos · 30.6K views · 2019-05-18 · 53:26

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Overview

A 2019 extended interview in which Connie Loizos talks with Sam Altman about his work, OpenAI's capped-profit structure, its mission toward safe artificial general intelligence, and criticisms the organization faces.

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It is mostly cited critically or jokingly, as a source for Altman's early statements about AGI and investor promises that commenters later quote back at him.

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aleph_minus_one · 2025-12 · Joke / meme

OpenAI has no idea what is the cause of the problem, but once OpenAI has built a general intelligent system, they will ask it for a way to fix this bug. (for those who don't get the reference: [VIDEO] (31:26 - 32:13)).

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almatabata · 2024-10 · Criticism

Funnily I came across an interview from around 5 years ago where he straight up admitted that he had no clue how to generate a return on investment back then (see [VIDEO] ) "We have no current plans to make revenue." "We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue." "We have made a soft promise to investors that once we've built a general intelligence system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you." The fact he has no clue how to generate revenue with an AGI without asking it, shows his lack of imagination.

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shrimpx · 2023-05 · Criticism

Seems like OpenAI is grasping at straws trying to make GPT "go meta". Reminds me of this Sam Altman quote from 2019: "We have made a soft promise to investors that once we build this sort-of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return." [VIDEO]

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