Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419

Lex Fridman · 2.5M views · 2024-03-18 · 1:55:10

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Lex Fridman interviews OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about GPT-4, GPT-5, Sora, the OpenAI board saga, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, power and AGI. The conversation runs nearly two hours.

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i4i · 2026-05 · Reference
He ends his essay with "Fuck Google for ranking some copycat website higher than mine, even though they copied my article", but how is it not OpenAI, Anthropic etc. as well as Google, to blame. We're meant to believe that with their resources they couldn't have created a micro-payment scheme to compensate creators? Altman on Fridman podcast two years ago about compensation... [VIDEO]
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maxdaten · 2024-05 · Reference
On the other side he said, the "next Copy of Google Search" would be boring. So let's see what they try to make differently [VIDEO]
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belter · 2024-03 · Reference
1:05 - OpenAI board saga - [VIDEO] 18:31 - Ilya Sutskever - [VIDEO] 24:40 - Elon Musk lawsuit - [VIDEO] 34:32 - Sora - [VIDEO] 44:23 - GPT-4 - [VIDEO] 55:32 - Memory & privacy - [VIDEO] 1:02:36 - Q* - [VIDEO] 1:06:12 - GPT-5 - [VIDEO] 1:09:27 - $7 trillion of compute - [VIDEO] 1:17:35 - Google and Gemini - [VIDEO] 1:28:40 - Leap to GPT-5 - [VIDEO] 1:32:24 - AGI - [VIDEO] 1:50:57 - Aliens - [VIDEO]
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