A fireside chat with Sam Altman OpenAI CEO at Harvard University

[@andreasmoyseos5980]

An AI discussion from 6 months ago is like a history lesson.

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@thea.i.inquiry]

that's so true lol

[@sunnyyadav1521]

😂

[@RobertHouse101]

Oh my God. I dislike when this happens. There are so many videos out with him I wrongly assumed they were far current than this. Glad I saw this early in the talk. I'm not a history buff. Well, that's not true. Thanks, I'm moving on.

[@SAhellenLily]

😔

[@JudeMarchisio]

3:29 is when this yapper stops yapping.

[@RaySmith-zg7od]

🙏🙏🙏

[@imthinkingthoughts]

thank you

[@rasha9546]

Its an introduction. You need to practice meditation if you can't sit still for an introduction longer than 3 minutes.

[@DJjussi1]

an intro from a person like her should be brief lol

[@marwin4348]

@@rasha9546 not possible with the information overload of the internet people need to learn to shift through the bs quickly.

[@labsanta]

00:04 Introduction to the event and relevance of artificial intelligence 02:31 Patrick Chung was Sam Altman's first investor 07:30 Sam Altman's early interests and experiences 09:49 Excitement about AI potential despite initial challenges 14:21 Deciding when to give up on a startup is subjective 16:36 Transition from initial research to successful product development 20:21 Realization of unprecedented scalability and predictability in language models 22:15 OpenAI CEO emphasizes the importance of research directions in making product decisions 26:15 OpenAI CEO shares perspective on societal negotiation for technology usage 28:21 AGI will participate in society and the economy. 32:58 The technological wave allows for adaptability and resilience 35:19 AI tools should be available for free for global benefit 39:36 Exploring ways to improve free tier and API access 41:29 Encouraging people to be effective with AI tools 45:29 OpenAI's commitment to improving their models 47:23 Encouragement to work on Fusion and Solar Plus Storage 51:16 Misconceptions about AI need serious attention 53:21 Discussion on personal relaxation habits 58:37 Sam Altman honored for impact on AI

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@zubairahmad4596]

🎉

[@Akh6one2]

I was in the crowd. I got to say, you all are lucky to be able to skip the yapp sesh at the beginning.

[@rahulsagarpv]

Hahaha- painful!

[@imthinkingthoughts]

Hahahaha

[@imthinkingthoughts]

But her marriage has worked for 37years! /s

[@nigelcrasto]

@@imthinkingthoughts good point still I fear for the husband

[@browntubes]

😂

[@pppakoficial3422]

- 14:44​: Why when you started OpenAI did you decide on a not-for-profit company? - 22:31​: Can you tell us about a difficult product decision you had to make? - 25:00​: When you make decisions, do you have a dichotomy in your mind? Ex: safety vs. progress, efficiency vs profit. - 27:29​: What question would you most like to be asked about artificial general intelligence? Answer it. _ 31:07​: What do you think people are getting wrong about OpenAI right now? - 32:23​: How do you regain momentum after pivoting in terms of your values? - 34:10​: How do you think AI’s role and impact will be in inequality in healthcare and education? - 37:10​: Do you envision OpenAI trying out other monetization strategies besides the subscription model? - 40:14​: Did competition change innovation? - 41:37​: What do you think public education curriculum on artificial intelligence should look like? - 43:43​: What do you think most entrepreneurs and VCs are getting wrong about the future of AI? - 45:52​: How much exposure does OpenAI have to energy constraints? - 47:54​: What do you and other leaders at OpenAI disagree on the most? - 48:55​: Does our passion for scientific progress lead us down a dangerous path? - 51:21​: What do you think industry should address to increase public trust of AI?

[@maiquyhuynh7927]

Much appreciated!

[@tianwang]

God bless your neural network

[@JOHANNARAQUELVAZQUEZLOPEZ-o9n]

"Your content is always so engaging and well-produced! Keep up the fantastic work!"

[@AIForHumansShow]

haha that first "GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY" love this interview and thanks for uploading

[@phoenixthottam5793]

Outstanding interview and KZbin clip provide a wealth of valuable insights. It is highly recommended that everyone take the time to watch the entire interview and clip, preferably twice, to fully absorb the information presented.

[@aresaurelian]

This is precisely what we needed. Thank you. 1:1.

[@drumunene3784]

Thanks HBS for opening your doors for all of us who couldnt get the chance to see Sam in person

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@dj0ai]

41:31 "Other people will keep copying where we've been and I am kind of fine with it." - The incredible ease of superiority 😊

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@adamgalas6762]

I'm sure they will apply DeepSeek architecture to o4. Maybe it will be 1000x cheaper than o3 (per token).

[@CeresBelter]

Sam Altman has blood on his hands. Justice will be served.

[@rishabhshayriofficel8600]

I'm really thankful to this conversation

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@pelangos]

Fantastic!! Love to see tech leader interviews like this

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@ramble218]

Thanks for making the date clear. Thumbs up

[@billjohnson7904]

These University students have great timing, they are in the right field, and can have very interesting careers if they go for it!

[@olivierporte]

This is great, but why the delay in uploading this? This talk was done on May 1 and only uploaded today (October 16) 🤔

[@marianacastaneda2619]

Looks like it's been around on XFund channels first.

[@vipinakon2355]

😕

[@DistortedV12]

Dang that’s a long time. Info might be irrelevant now

[@ponnaiahmohaideenpitchai9660]

​@@marianacastaneda2619😊😊😊

[@samyakjain727]

cynic in me low-key says it was deliberately to hold back progress. Imagine delaying a 1h Sam Altman interview for 6 months ...

[@Copa20777]

God bless you Mr Altman ❤4rmZambia 🇿🇲

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@Wodz30]

The start of the video has a photo at Harvard - the title at @00:00 says the talk is at Memorial Church (which is in harvard yard) but the actual tower there with the white top is Eliot House at the River Quad lol. I think only Harvard alum would notice this but.. wanted to pass this along to anyone that might care. That is Eliot :)

[@expandifypro]

Thanks, star 🌟

[@MicahBratt]

To Sam's point about not understanding why the world didn't get AI earlier. Personally I had been following the progress in AI on and off for years and was aware that it was getting better but it wasn't mind blowing. Along the way I had discovered Open AI's website but hadn't really checked back until randomly I decided to see what was going on with AI in early 2023. I happened to find my way to the Open AI test api and was quickly blown away by the response! I almost immediately shared it with several of my close friends (which I rarely do) and literally in the next few weeks it blew up. Sometimes the stars align and everyone just gets it all at once.

[@Rockyzach88]

I've pondered on the "society + technology emergence is the real AI" thought for a while now, as well as the "there has been minimum genetic drift" statement. Surprised to see someone say it out loud. It also means that our foundations of that emergence need to be tended to more carefully though.

[@uhomolector]

At 3:29, the incessant chatter comes to a halt. That particular moment marks the end of all the trivial talk, paving the way for a more significant and engaging conversation. It's here that the genuine ideas and messages behind the earlier noise can finally shine through, allowing listeners to truly connect and focus on what really matters.

[@whomptilizes]

Nice GPT

[@redpill5384]

Really good questions!!!

[@Itsallrelative1]

'the superintelligence is not in one or many neural networks but in the scaffolding of these neural networks.' - quite a powerful feature not only in the AI technology but also how humans should be thinking about career, life and purpose. Adam Grant said 'The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It's how well you synthesize. Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition. It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.' The world is now a producer of infinite knowledge and data. The real wisdom is to sit down, take time to analyse, empathise enough to connect dots and envisage impact and then take action. With this bare minimum, the consequences will not be perfection but they sure will be progress.

[@monkeymustang]

Very well said.

[@Anders01]

Wow, what Sam said from 34:30 I found interesting. The cost of cognitive labor will fall by a factor a million or a billion, he wasn't sure. I think that's true! Ray Kurzweil has shown that there is exponential progress of information technology, and this kind of scenario can come true from that perspective.

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@tonyhill2318]

It's like the interviewer took all the boilerplate interview questions and said "how can I make these even more inane?" Sheesh

[@GatherVerse]

That was intriguing. I hope Sam can make it to our AI Summit next at GatherVerse. We have no way of getting ahold of him.

[@drchrisloomdphd]

Awesome video. Thanks 🙏

[@rasha9546]

Dang came in with that Nardwuar level gift and question Great job

[@Haggisbishop]

legit XD

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@haraanganjotsingh8032]

Maintained the attention for an entire hour, why hasn’t that ever happened in school lectures ?

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@Rockyzach88]

Because it's not a school lecture?

[@avii.8075]

Because this is entertainment not learning. It requires low level of focus, no effort and no discipline.

[@derekcarday]

The fact that it REQUIRES scale to get better is the problem in and of itself.

[@tracy419]

For now

[@MikhailSosnin]

Such clever people, they know where this world going

[@弘历爱新觉罗]

Great dialogue！Amazing talk

[@User-actSpacing]

No fire. Disappointed.

[@HumanBeing_Youtube]

Bruh😂

[@dosesandmimoses]

It is misrepresenting to not be fireside..

[@AndrewDeVilbiss-xrp]

😂

[@EnriqueSalceda-k4v]

Agree

[@amol5463777]

AI is an endeavour which should be navigated with a lot of caution and monitoring. I believe fire 🔥 or enthusiasm here can lead to disastrous outcomes. (In my opinion )

[@ReflectionOcean]

* Work on things with dramatic impact regardless the chance of success could be really low * Be relentlessly resourceful

[@FuturePulse_nl]

Why do these school-related channels always delay the release of such interviews for months? This almost half-a-year-old interview is now much less interesting.

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@rawux]

because they restrict the share of knowledge for profit

[@MexicanRoboticsEngineer]

Guy says he liked the writing classes but tweets in all lowercase haha love this guy

[@whemmakatatt5311]

This a marketing masterclass and not much else. How quickly did for profit change their talks xD

[@tracy419]

Fortunately when Elon Musk agreed with them about the need to become for profit, they turned his offer to merge with Tesla down. Now we have an additional competitor in the field to help drive this forward.

[@othmane-mezian]

Like most webinars, seminars and "conferences"

[@JazevoAudiosurf]

he really is a peak podcast bro

[@claudioagmfilho]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻, Sam Altman is an incredible individual whom I deeply admire for his achievements and vision. He's at the forefront of innovation, paving the way for what’s to come! The interview was outstanding absolutely couldn’t have been better!

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@IgnacioAguilarToledo]

Are you a bot?

[@lostHOTDOG]

Wow now I see why he chose Stanford

[@happy-wave-form]

Does it matter if it reaches a stage where AI or AGI would start leading open AI in whatever it does.

[@Hshjshshjsj72727]

When I tried translating curses in spanish chatgpt wouldnt cooperate but was a few months ago. As a beginner, I was genuinely trying to learn so big tech censoring things is very annoying.

[@julieterrell1973]

Thank GOD Sam has enough decency to be of service to this world vs just another tech "taker" or this would be just another thing to keep the rich richer❤🎉

[@LoungeMedia]

“With 24 hours in a day, calling world-changing insights ‘yapping’ shows more about our own impatience than the value of the knowledge we’re given for free.” Written with chatGPT after sharing the comments section. “Humans”

[@JouelletteFrenchCoaching]

Very interesting - and yes, a historical moment, thank you! Llyane B Stanfield

[@TTAA-o5n]

Altman is a great leader

[@Math_kru_earng]

thanks!

[@whitemountainblueocean]

Wow enthusiasm is touching the sky i love it

[@MuhammadYasirSarwar]

wonderful discussion, Definition of AGI " Accumulation of Intelligence " Wow, . &&& by the way Who skipped last 8 minutes 🙂

[@moeheintun422]

.

[@dastaan.]

Thanks

[@RobertHouse101]

My chatGPT 4o is down right now. This is the first time it's happened to me. Maybe it needs to grow faster? Or it's just down.

[@Timzhil]

A bit concerning that students from the “best” university in the world came up with such naive, childish and silly questions.

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@Heavenlight100]

One of the hopes I have that ai will change the education sector

[@nickfixit]

The inner child is what progress needs though. That curiosity!

[@nickfixit]

I wish I could just teach students how to use AI. Get them using flows and art but show it it helps in the real world. Would be fun!!!👾

[@tracy419]

​@@nickfixitstart making videos again.

[@peternguyen2022]

OpenAI's explicity mission statement on its website is to create AGI. So it's a bit disappointing that Sam is backing out of it by re-defining AGI as some kind of vague, decentralized ecosystem pervading society. Or maybe that's just a narrative that he's sharing publicly in order to escape potential accusations that should OpenAI reach AGI status first, it would be too centralized and too dangerous.d Either way, it would have been better IMO if Sam had just come out and say, "Yup, AGI is what we at OpenAI will create." Thoughts anyone? P.S. My startup is creating ABI, an artificial business intelligence that works like Stockfish, giving entrepreneurs step by step, move by move, instructions on how to win in business.

[@life42theuniverse]

Global low entropy is proportional to Sunlight, 6+ phase sinusoid cycles (Day, Moon, Year, Jupiter year,...). Global Oil supply peaked circa 2008.

[@life42theuniverse]

Why was Stonehenge built? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZfYoKqImLWYiMU

[@insertacoin738]

lmao when sam got asked for the selfie he said "really?" hahahah

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@alefalfa]

Sam repeatedly teasing how baldy we are underrating the intelligence jump in the next generation of models is killing me

[@alefalfa]

... in a good way

[@LOVELOVE-rp9cn]

so amazing world. i can see you great genius anytime. in korea. actually anywhere with computer and smartphone ~! so cool

[@viktoro.ledenyov5829]

Super!!!😊😊😊

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@complexproblems]

The hyper-targeting of individuals on Earth using ultra-sophisticated technological means (AI) is an atrocity that should never be permitted in a democratic society.

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@tonyhill2318]

Also, having that text behind his head is very annoying and distracting.

[@BenSawadogo]

man, always complaining about everything!

[@aecet9652]

Just listen man it’s a gem

[@thedaviddosu]

Totally love love Sam! ❤❤❤😢😢

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@rightright6582]

When was the intervew

[@miqueridoprofesor2023]

It's clear that Sam doesn't want to talk about his personal life because he doesn't want the AI ​​to profile him and see his weak points. He won't give out information because he knows what it means.

[@vangeest]

Minute 30 onwards..... KEY !!!

[@shaneemoretgrowthacademy]

Thank you lol

[@learnbydoingwithsteven]

32:19 QA section begins

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@mikekisekka4375]

What a delightfull Lady in the beginning

[@saidkamaal709]

It’s all about “the unfair advantages” he is a normal kid who got abnormal advantage.

[@monkeymustang]

Who has set the world on course to wipe humanity… lol. He gives the impression of an average dude… but we can’t call him average anymore. Sorry.

[@debbiegarcia7485]

Tucker Carlson spoke on him today Jan 15 2025 🤔

[@maurogasparini889]

I guess he is saying Gpt 5 will blow our minds😊

[@juanpcadile]

He says this quite often, and it's really unclear if it holds. He says that AI will benefit poor people more. He gives no reasons why. I don't want to call it BS, but it's definitely not a backed statement.

[@mrunalpatil7867]

Opening was powerful 😂

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@centuraxaum5951]

Without Elon funding them with $100 million, they would not have progressed to this point today.

[@byrnemeister2008]

But didn’t he also try to pull the plug and get them all to work for him? Lots of things led them to where they are today. Sure Musk contributed some early funding but there are so many other important contributions he isn’t as important as he thinks he is.

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@alexinaboxx]

The fact that he leads the Ai market and can but won’t even give a high level academic discussion about the pros and cons of transformers and what research may yield benefits when OpenAi is a non profit at the core is really really bad imo.

[@TenzDenz]

38:20 ads are so annoying

[@aidan9876]

Howie from TBBT has come a long way.

[@gianlucapistoia8993]

I was very excited at the beginning to hear someone like Sam Altman speak but more and more the guy becomes suspicious, zuckerberg 2.0 and a lot of people warn against him -> one of them Geoffrey Hinton (the godfather of ai)

[@monkeymustang]

Exactly. Reading through these comments, it’s alarming that majority seem to idolize this man. I just read a previous comment (maybe 20 or less above) suggesting , “Sam does not want to talk about his personal life, likely in fear of AI profiling him”. I’m not suggesting this is true but it is something I can’t help but notice how odd and uncomfortable he becomes when giving answers on his life in general. I can appreciate the stoic response as I wouldn’t want much of my life out to the public past, present, future…but then again I haven’t changed the course of humanity.

[@karamthomas777]

UBI for compute sounds funny.

[@eadlam]

There's actually only two cliques in American schools: those who pronounce it "clicks" and those who pronounce it "cleeks"

[@sputnik8543]

Sam Altman went to a top high school lmao (not public) - not an avg high school exp

[@reborngenalpha]

May 1?

[@GabrielaCuentas-f6n]

This guys should be working with Professor Noam Chomsky

[@Bharathi-t8t]

Please let go 🙏😭

[@tancossine6733]

He could have used chatgpt for this fireside chat

[@ehlava7331]

i have watched many interviews with him now. I find him very difficult to listen to. It seems like he talks a lot but never actually conveys any new information. i cant figure if its because talking about the business of ai is boring? i love using ai and think it should be fascinating, but 🤷‍♂

[@dj0ai]

54:55 David Parkes... Who paid this guy to waste our time?!?

[@GabrielaCuentas-f6n]

Like everything, like knives, for example, it is the hand that holds it who decides if it will be for good or for bad... And considering human nature... we all know were will this end... just don't blame the machines...

[@lucassoares358]

I'm from Brazil. Someone would like to talk?

[@MikeKleinsteuber]

Whilst I love chatGPT for what it is, transformer LLMs will never on their own give us AGI no matter what the size their training data might be. So spending huge sums on GPUs is a complete waste of space. We need more research into neuroscience and neuromorphic and analogue computing to understand more clearly how human reasoning and innovation comes about. We're really much more in the dark than we realise. If you think about it, of all the 20/30/100 billion people (or so) that have ever lived how many real innovations have their been per our compute (for want of a better word) moment. Very few, and that's with all the input modes we have like sight, sound, smell, touch and taste, most of which LLMs haven't got a clue about. Most of our inputs are nothing to do with language whatsoever. Ben Goertzel and his team are on a much clearer path than Sam, for all his brilliance.

[@derrick021]

can anybody please buy Mr. Altman a pair of socks

[@billjohnson7904]

What's with the dumb cup? That was embarrassing.

[@notapplicable2u]

this is soo embarassing to watch... but i love it :) go team humanity!

[@AgentGill74]

Shame Sam can’t find a better word than for poor people

[@Lucas_Asher]

"like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, sorta, like..."

[@See_USABESTMBA.-COM]

Well said

[@learnbydoingwithsteven]

If open ai inevitably takes large portion of the search volume, they will sell search position for sure. Hidden advertisement. Let’s see.

[@MikeEveland-g9k]

His ego is scaling along with chat gpt. He never once, even remotely, mentioned any of the tech giants, whether individuals or companies, while explaing how the future will consist of a universal ai collaborative environment. Listening to him, you would think that he alone was responsible for artifcial intelligence.

[@bullymaguire2335]

Didn't Hinton just say this guy is evil

[@tracy419]

No

[@bullymaguire2335]

@@tracy419 well he did , checkout his noble prize speech 🤷

[@tracy419]

@@bullymaguire2335 you mean when he said he was glad one of his students fired him? Maybe you can provide the quote and source, because I missed the evil bit and can't seem to find it with Google. Thanks in advance.

[@bullymaguire2335]

@@tracy419 sure . Open Ai was founded by a bunch of investors Elon , Ai scientists like Andrej karpathy , illya sutskevar as a non profit . Sam altman was the business guy in there since he had experience in y combinator . So sutskevar student of hinton was interim CEO and fired Sam altman of the board coz Sam focussed more on profitability and neglected safety and was stirring the boat towards making money ( which he is good at btw and I respect as a wannabe entrepreneur )when the board was divided . And then some politics played out and all the prominent co founders left the company , Sam became the sole power keeper and made open ai officially closed source . Hence proved

[@bullymaguire2335]

@@tracy419 a apologise in advance for the essay lol

[@venus9334]

32:20 질문 시작

[@fteoOpty64]

You are witnessing the first real human AGI proxy. Considering his recent $10b "reward" , it ain't so bad, is it ?. Proxy maybe a bit harsh for some but it is more like conspire with the AGI.

[@tracy419]

Do you have verification for that money, or are you still spreading unverified rumors?

[@timtim8011]

"You can just do stuff in the world..." So profound. LIke most of his talks, this is extremely vague and quite repetitive of everything else he's said.