Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, unpacked

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

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[@Ok-lu8gx]

ok

[@Av-vd3wk]

Sam legit scares me. It’s the combination of limitless potential power and his obvious Autism/Asperger’s.

[@AMPProf]

Thats crazy It's really the Kid from 2011

[@stevechance150]

QUESTION: Who controls OpenAI? ANSWER: I'm going to say VIKI.

[@daverizz]

THAT, was a great video! Thanks Phil! Good info, and yeah, the tech reporters really have been letting him off with so much softball B.S.

[@MattCampbellca]

“Are we the housekeeper cleaning up his bad ideas?” Beautiful writing, Phil.

[@tf_9047]

No, we're the Liquidators, sacrificing our health, jobs and future to address the fallout of unsafe AI experiments gone horribly wrong

[@shiny_x3]

really? what does it even mean? we aren't cleaning up his ideas at all, we are using them on a daily basis

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

@@shiny_x3 If a metaphor doesn't speak to you, that's fine, but don't pretend you're being a bold maverick.

[@sooup22]

@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 tryna start a online argument so bad 😭

[@russellross9217]

@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 I don't understand it either. Can you explain it?

[@IT10T]

So, my impression from this piece is that Sam Altman is a lot more like Elon Musk than I had previously believed. While I did know that he was a crowd-funding startup entrepreneur, I did not realize exactly how little he actually had to do with the initial development and research process of ChatGPT.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

i'm sure he's quite capable technically - but i agree. i think the media portrays him as the "inventor" quite a bit.

[@Name-gi8dr]

You managed to insult them both without lies. Love it.

[@khandmo]

Elon founded SpaceX and directed it from the beginning, Tesla was in the shitter when he bought it. I'm not a fan of the guy despite what you'll want to respond but he's clearly good at making shit happen.

[@MeppyMan]

@@khandmosure, but he also got extremely lucky, and started with money. We don’t see all the other Elons who fail. As for Altman if you follow IT industry news and podcasts, it’s been obvious for a while.

[@khandmo]

@ yea Altman hasn’t kept any of that a secret, and tbh I think every CEO billionaire story has some luck in it

[@FleshyHolipok]

OpenAI changing to a for-profit model goes against everything they built their company on, and is a slap in the face to the investors and consumers who have believed in and supported ("fell for") their vision in the beginning.

[@SodaDjinn]

That was the moment when the mask did not only slip, but dropped and shattered on the floor. He's like all the other tech billionaires.

[@hoilst265]

On Bsky, someone said they were at Starbucks in San Fran, and when they paid they were asked if they'd like to make a donation to "a local nonprofit" a while back. The nonprofit was f***ing OpenAI...

[@shanpsoldout]

my support at this point is going to Anthropic/Claude. I wrote a post about the impact OpenAI had on exploiting workers in Nairobi to manually label traumatic content. they're truly just another twisted startup under the guise of "benefit for all"

[@Neuvalence]

as soon as i heard non-profit AI company in 2022 + Microsoft involvement, it was clear to me that was yet another façade

[@4ndj]

ironically Snapchat did what Loopt did & succeeded with location sharing years later

[@pongusikya]

2 min into this video and I 100% hate this guy. No matter how rich you are you DO NOT litter for the housecleaning to pick up.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

it was pretty revealing...

[@toooes]

He… pays the house cleaners to do this. Not housekeeping at a hotel. His cleaners.

[@takimi_nada]

@@toooes point still stands. he doesn't need to make their job harder

[@toooes]

@@takimi_nadathat is their job

[@I_Love_Learning]

@@toooesHe can, it is their job, but it takes half a second to stick it in a trash can.

[@aromaticsnail]

As a society we really need to stop giving so much power to sociopaths

[@hoilst265]

You know that creepy IT guy at work you *really* don't like dealing with? You know, the guy who makes you wish you'd go back to typewriters? That's what these creeps'd be if they didn't have money and luck.

[@meikahidenori]

​@@hoilst265they still are. You can only put so much make up on a wart, but it'd still a wart.

[@jaguarazul]

👏👏👏

[@theinternetsavedmylife]

You didn't give him power, he earned it!

[@esgee3829]

capitalism doesn't value conscience. goodbye

[@WillJBailey]

One thing is for sure - he has absolutely no problems with industrial-scale copyright theft.

[@orien2v2]

We all know the Altman, where's Sam Mainman?

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

lol

[@coolfan156]

​@@PhilEdwardsInc u wear shirt

[@GoldenPickaxe]

Lobo?

[@goldie819]

Extremely ready for this economic bubble to burst.

[@shiny_x3]

oh man you are going to be so sad 😂

[@bulolo_wilber]

Are you sure you're ready for an economic bubble?

[@squamish4244]

There is no AI bubble. AI is just going to keep exploding. Lots of paths forward, lots of strategies to keep it advancing rapidly. LLMs, or large language models, are an aspect of AI and the one getting all the attention right now - and the product that OpenAI is dependent on. They ARE probably in a bubble that will burst. But LLMs have already done enough to completely transform the global economy once they are fully integrated into the digital infrastructure, and significantly advance productivity and accuracy across many domains. They've also brought a lot of awareness to AI and a vast amount of capital. The companies that will survive the LLM bubble bursting are the same one that are already household names - Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Boston Dynamics, Microsoft etc. They won't even feel it. The ones that could be in trouble are Anthropic, OpenAI etc., which are also the ones hyping LLMs most furiously to pump up their stock price. Their models will be preserved by other companies buying them. I wouldn't mind getting rid of Sam Altman. Psychopathic f*ck. Sexual abuser too.

[@AceGigalo]

lmfao I love that there's actual people out there that think an economic collapse is going to benefit them because "prices drop" lmfao theres no way around working buddy

[@muhsinkhalif3621]

use AI tools to be cracked be an early adopter of AI and agents

[@yourfellowhumanbeing2323]

That white and black rubiks cube segment in tge video was great!

[@Secretlyanothername]

it was kinda pathetic actually

[@IvanLuelmo]

Was it? It felt like trying too hard to pass on the message with props, which might not be the best for that. Specially the last transformation. A black box refers to its opacity, its masking, its veiling, its "resistance" to dispkay its contents, which this cube obviously doesn't have, or are all known (it's all plastic and metal axes). Excellent review, though.

[@MrCrook]

I think much of this analysis over estimates Altman. He’s a dude that is good at lying and will do just about anything for money. He’s not some enigma, he’s just a liar. He’s like Musk and like Trump where his only calculus is what can he say in this moment to get what he wants from his audience.

[@TheNorminalHuman]

Probably, he probably wants whatever he is a part of to succeed and grow as much as possible, no matter the consequences. Sure that makes him a person that will help your grow like crazy and reach amazing heights, but at what cost?

[@Kanzish]

Sam screeching about abundance while joking about his maids cleaning up his trash after getting rich off an app no one used is wild

[@brianmi40]

"no one used" LOL, fastest to 1 million users signed up in the HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. Pay attention more, whine less.

[@Kanzish]

@@brianmi40 ??? Loopd was not the fastest to 1 million...

[@brianmi40]

@@Kanzish Who said Loopt, not either of us.

[@Kanzish]

@@brianmi40 I literally said "got rich" implying Loopd, he was already very wealthy when he started OpenAI...

[@the_crypter]

@@brianmi40 We got a sam fanboy who lacks reading comprehension (same thing), they clearly meant loopt, as in 'got rich after it was acquired'.

[@mirceagogoncea]

Sorry to be that guy, but I think you meant: "This is Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, together with Jessica Livingston, WHO WAS ALSO A CO-FOUNDER OF Y COMBINATOR." Yes, they were married, but she wasn't just his wife! She was his co-founder, too. PG himself claimed YC wouldn't exist without her. I highly recommend listening to her podcast, The Social Radars - probably my favorite startup podcast at the moment.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

appreciate it but i think i got it right. "this is paul graham, cofounder of ycombinator (no pause) with jessica livingston"

[@mirceagogoncea]

I appreciate you taking the time to reply. Reading that, I can see how you meant it. I genuinely don't think that comes across, though. Maybe that's just me, but if I say "this is Joe Biden, president of the US, together with Jill Biden, - they got married [...]" I don't think anyone would assume Joe Biden and Jill are both presidents of the US. At this point though, insisting on this would just be arguing semantics. I'm happy you are aware of Jessica's contributions and you did not consciously intend to leave her out. I think that moment could have benefitted from better phrasing, but I can see how you meant it.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

@@mirceagogoncea well if you thought it, it obviously could have been clearer! thanks for noting and being nice about it. i'll keep it in mind in future videos.

[@mujtabaalam5907]

@@mirceagogoncea But I would if you said, " this is Joe Biden, co-president of the US together with Jill Biden"

[@mirceagogoncea]

​@@mujtabaalam5907 You are not wrong. But "co-president" and "cofounder" are very different words. Let's get into the cultural differences at the heart of this misunderstanding! They are genuinely interesting. In any group, words morph and change meaning over time. In startup culture, the word "cofounder" has changed meaning in a way that people outside this group aren't aware of. I was not aware of this myself (as a startup founder), until I read Phil's reply. Here's how it's perceived in "startup world" vs. everywhere else: Almost all startups are founded by multiple people. These people are referred to as cofounders. It is so standard for a company to have cofounders that when someone creates a company on their own, they are called "solo founders." That's a very unusual thing. Now, "solo president" doesn't make sense, does it? Because almost every president is a solo president. But the opposite happens in startups! Almost every founder is someone's cofounder. "Cofounder" in startups has become almost synonymous with "founder." The word lost its hyphen (it's not usually spelled "co-founder" except in official settings). That "co" particle has lost its power. This change has NOT occurred outside the in-group of startup culture. If you say "This is Brian Chesky, cofounder of Airbnb, together with Elon Musk," I guarantee that nobody in the startup world will think that Brian Chesky and Elon Musk cofounded Airbnb. "Brian Chesky, cofounder of Airbnb" stands on its own. If you wanted to say that they founded Airbnb together, you would say "This is Brian Chesky together with his cofounder Elon Musk" (lol), in which case it would be obvious that they founded it together (they didn't, haha). The possessive ("his cofounder") makes it clear that they work together. Someone who doesn't live inside this little bubble of startup founders doesn't hear the word "cofounder" 100 times a day, like we do. So, they take it at "face value", and that "co" particle means a lot to them. The word hasn't been "eroded" like it has been for us. This is a case where the wording that Phil means one thing for most people, but it means something else to the ingroup.

[@Some.real.human.]

Don’t google or ask chat gpt about his sister annie

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

this is why it's a bit confusing that some comments are saying this video is an ad hominem attack. I showed a lot of restraint!

[@meganuke9091]

Just ask google,lol. Google try to censor and mislead people.

[@-nomi.-]

It's really sad how little Sutskever's contribution to OpenAI was mentioned in reporting of the Altman ousting, and how OpenAI was painted as being fundamentally tied to Altman (Which may be true but not in the right ways). Possibly THE foremost AI expert more or less got gaslit for trying to put safety first.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

it's pretty crazy in those musk altman emails - very clear sutskever was the central piece to open ai even existing

[@-nomi.-]

​@@PhilEdwardsIncI'm with you on that. I think it's brilliant how you focused on how unknowable Altman is with how it's founded in Sutskever and Brockman struggling with the very same in their emails. That vaguely cooperative one sentence response says everything.

[@TonyBullard]

"Please regulate us" is an old tactic in silicon valley. The well established company asks to come in and help write regulations, ensuring they have a seat at the table and they make it easy on themselves, and harder on newer startups / smaller competitors.

[@watcher8582]

I don't think the videos were filmed with a potato, it's just that youtube changed the processing and so basically all old youtube uploads are extremely grainy now. They don't look now like they looked when you viewed them on youtube in 2008.

[@abnature]

Think again

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

i mainly just wanted to acknowledge that it was a rough watch, but worth it imho for the audio/story point

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

I actually appreciate that clarification (pun unintended but I'm absolutely not changing it now). Thank you.

[@kevnev342]

It's a figure of speech to emphasize how low-quality the videos were. Thanks for pointing out the obvious.

[@watcher8582]

@@kevnev342 Well it surely is a figure of speech, but the fact that the videos are now low res is not actually reflective of what they once where/how they once looked on youtube.

[@gustavohernandeza.890]

PHIL: I think (the double collar) looks pretty good! ME: On you, yes. On him, not so much. On me, never because I don't wear shirts.

[@new-bp6ix]

he is the character from "the lorax" even the face the same script : Once-ler: What are you doing here? Lorax: Happy yet? You fill that hole deep down inside you? Or do you still need more? Once-ler: Look, if you've got a problem with what I'm doing, why haven't you used your quote-unquote powers to stop me?! Lorax: I told you, that's not how it works. Once-ler: Right, I forgot. You're a fraud. I need you to get out. Now!!! Lorax: Why? Do I make you uncomfortable? Remind you of the promises you made? The man you used to be? Once-ler: [To the Lorax] You know what? You can just shut your mustache! My conscience is clear. I have done nothing illegal, and I mean no harm. But I have my rights, and I intend to keep on biggering and biggering, and turning more Truffula trees in to Thneeds which everyone wants because everyone needs! And nothing, no, NOTHING is going to stop me! Lorax: [when the last Truffula tree is chopped down] That's it. The very last one. That may stop you.

[@alexandermoody1946]

That story is very deep and should make every child think very hard about how we all plan to exist in the future.

[@alexandermoody1946]

@3TNT3 I am certain that the greatest enemy that exists within the Bible would have higher intellectual attributes and knowledge than is being proposed. Although the deceit within an individual that can take all of humanities combined efforts without second thought is devious and the premise that if you scan your eyes he will give you pocket money is pretty dastardly. If we appreciate evangelical understanding then God will win and will always win because God can create.

[@Afterglow.Studios]

Spiral notebooks suck for lefties.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

lol hadn't thought of this

[@FindecanorNotGmail]

Notebooks suck for use as notepads. The difference is that the latter is made for tearing off sheets. And a notepad could have the spiral at the top!

[@misterscottintheway]

I'm happy to be enlightened but I genuinely can't figure out why it would be worse than a normal notebook. If you are right handed you still are blocked by the spiral when trying to write on the left hand page. It would just be opposite for lefties. I get that lefties have to drag their hands across the fresh ink but that isn't an issue unique to spiral notebooks.

[@sugarrookieart]

​@@misterscottintheway I believe this person specifically only rights on the front side of lined paper, as there's valid reason to do so depending on what its for and quality of the paper. The issue is not smearing ink, its that your wrist lays on top of the metal wire and it makes your hand sore. In the context of a lefty that is only using the front of the pages, the complaint 100% makes sense

[@cresswga]

I am a leftie and love a spiral notebook. I turn mine sideways so the page becomes landscape and the rings are at the top.

[@timr.2257]

He's definitely evil.

[@colemanbar1]

The Rubik’s cubes and notepad visuals were a brilliant touch!! Loved this video

[@Highlander741]

The most revealing thing I’ve seen from Sam Altman is when someone tweeted him asking about upcoming Chat-GPT features and he responded with “how about a couple of weeks of gratitude for magic intelligence in the sky, and then you can have more toys soon?” Seems like a bit of a god complex

[@nvrndingsmmr]

Oh my god lmao

[@kdm_entertainment]

Fantastic writing for this one, Phil

[@jonathanreid7410]

Hi Phil. Enjoyed the video. Really insightful as always. I was struck by Altman’s interview with Lex Fridman. Lex really pushed him on the fact that he refused to capitalise words in emails. It felt like he was drawing a deeper inference that Altman had a contempt for the norms of communication. My read…. Lex was deeply disturbed by the thought of Altman being in control of such technology. Worrying times.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

i love that lex does these interviews and am 3.5 hours into the anthropic one, but i do wish they pushed on specifics a bit more sometimes. I think we'd get better answers. I guess the capitalization thing is a good one. I just wish there were more concrete questions (about...say, RHLF or data sources) and if the interviewee dodges, they kept asking.

[@WoolyCow]

@@PhilEdwardsInc its kinda pointless when he's realistically signed an nda...all that does is force him into an uncomfortable non-answer, which makes him look like he's hiding something, which is interpreted as openAI having a new breakthrough (cough cough the whole Q* -> strawberry -> o1 situation) which just builds pointless hype and puts more pressure on accelerationist. he's an interviewer, not a senator...

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

@@WoolyCowi mean, journalists don't sign ndas. i don't think any interviewer should.

[@WoolyCow]

@@PhilEdwardsInc no i mean sam would have an nda preventing him from talking about most of the day to day activities at open ai. microsoft wouldn't risk him being able to speak out, especially given the events of the open ai exodus last year. thats one of the reasons for a lack of transparency on his end (on top of being a hype bro, and the occasional exceptionally niche reference to a paper, comment or critique, like the 'there is no wall' one you mentioned in the video)

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

@@WoolyCowoh he can say whatever he wants i'm sure. he's the ceo! he's not just a normal employee. he'd have to tell the lawyers to sue himself!

[@beatusbibang7382]

It is very interesting that at some point in history the most ambitious persons always stumble or scrap things that will influence the world. Just wish that the benefits will be distributed equally to all people. Love this video with very nuanced view of the persona and human of Sam Altman. Always a fan of your works, Phil

[@sugarrookieart]

It will never be "evenly distributed" because then they'd have to pay every single artist on earth asking price for every single piece of art they've ever made, which is not sustainable. By pointing this out specifically Im trying to say this business model can only exist under the pretense of mass theft. The excess value generated by magical fake robot art is just the value that would've gone to actual artists. This is a moral failing and AI(in the context of MEDIA and ART, not medical stuff like medicine creation, before you obnoxious ai investor animals jump down my throat)should not exist AT ALL. These people should be paying for copyright infringement lawsuits for the rest of their lives, not lounging on yachts.

[@brianmi40]

@@sugarrookieart "evently distributed" is simply longer term than you're looking. "AI should not exist AT ALL" is simply an ignorant statement. AI is already saving lives by the THOUSANDS and will lead to curing ALL DISEASE. You simply have no clue. On the road to the End of Human Labor, it doesn't really matter much the order of "who goes first or last"... Today you can't even tell me whether typewriters, vinyl records or fax machines fell out of favor first, unemploying the thousands that worked in those industries.

[@LukeThomas00000]

Thanks! Another great Sunday story time 😁

[@beig]

I am curious if you are familiar with Ed Zitron's newsletter where he is pretty critical of Open AI, but focuses very much on how he believes the company is failing and sam altman is just a snake oil salesman, fits very much with this video (which was great, by the way)

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

yes i think a patreon subscriber recommended a podcast episode from him actually!

[@shadownuclearfartdestroyer]

Came here to suggest this. Ed has the best tech newsletter out right now.

[@tysonjohn3815]

This might be your best and most important report you've ever done. Thank you for exposing this story.

[@onemorechris]

Sam Altman is the Tim Cook Character from the film ‘Don’t Look Up’. He what Silicone Valley settles for when they pick someone ‘with vision’. he doesn’t have vision, he just says things and looks vacant or slightly sad. it makes me think the business people who took over Silicone Valley have only encountered someone ‘with vision’ at university, who studied sociology.

[@desmond-hawkins]

Interesting to see that YC first batch photo (9:35). Taken in the corner of some random room, not a single woman among the founders. The Reddit kids are behind Jessica Livingston at the back, away from Aaron Swartz who's next to Sam Altman and pg. Aaron was amazing and is still missed by many. I wonder if Sam Altman still remembers him, almost 20 years later.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

i'm sure they all do. jason calacanis actually asked paul graham a bit about him in that clip.

[@TheSepetto]

Here is a question: Would anyone reject this kind of power given that they have the necessary amount of intelligence, willpower and confidence to recognize the chance and pursue it to this extent? Whatever reason you have, via this kind of power to influence things you can will anything to life. I think we should put a cap on power anyone one group or a person can have.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

i think that's a good question. that kinda reflects what i'm thinking about. i think altman doubtless believes he's a good person. so we can't be making moral judgments about people - we have to make them based on policies, records, and results.

[@waldodancer]

what a nutso amount of research must have gone into this video! I mean, every one of your videos, Phil, but this one looked especially notable. Bravo! Onward!

[@illumina-t-info]

it's always good to layer up

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

gulp

[@DampEarth]

Really enjoying your new format, Phil. Nice pivot. Now for lunch.

[@Drmcclung]

People like Altman don't fool or impress me. Loopt was a total ripoff of Dodgeball. And I don't know about the rest of y'all but I'm sick to death of celebrity Tony Stark personas

[@NishanthSalahudeen]

Do you mean that this guy reminds you of tony stark???

[@jacobstratton1140]

@@NishanthSalahudeenprobably more like this guy thinks he’s cool so he acts like an ass but everyone else knows better

[@developingtank]

Haven’t crumpled up any paper and literally thrown my ideas out in a while. Looks satisfying as hell

[@DuBCraft21]

Having watched this video through, it feels quite transparent to me that Sam Altman is first and foremost a profit driven business man who is extremely smart and manipulative. Other people mentioning Elon Musk makes me feel like he is what Musk would be if Musk wasn't abusing katamine and alcohol, and generally was just smarter.

[@GlennDavidson]

TBF, he's still got a good decade or so to get to Musk's level of... whatever he is. Who knows what the micro-dose du jour in SV will be by then? I'd agree everything I've read or watched of Sam Altman just gives me a similar impression - not that I would claim I can spot someone who is manipulative, but I've had enough experience (and fallen foul) of people like that to be wary of particular behaviours and trust my first impression. He probably even believes that manipulation and exploitation is "leadership" - it's much harder to sustain without that belief.

[@TheMeanArena]

OpenAI's ChaptGPT is one of if not the best tool to learn from and boost your skills ten fold. If you aren't using it, then you're being left behind. It is the future, RIGHT NOW!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

ok CHAT GPT i know it's you!

[@TheMeanArena]

@@PhilEdwardsInc Um, not exactly!

[@musicbysazid]

Sam Altman unboxing video, lesgo edit: this guy sounds everything "dangerous" stands for

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

a real one's out there! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXeufmacl8RpmdE

[@narrator69]

I'll agree with Sam on his choice of writing tools, I've used ring notebooks and the same pen he likes for 30 years now, started as a bicycle courier with it and still use it for my notes to this day. The Uniball was the only pen that worked even in -40 weather as a courier.

[@rubncarmona]

The dilemma of democracy, of saving humanity, is always the same: not everybody is seen as equally human

[@QuestionMan]

I'm not gonna undervalue the exponential potential of potato. Not again.

[@MyrLin8]

For almost anyone who is serious about AI development, and future; this is/was a killer move. OpenAI is toast, even with the additional theft and the money the partnering with Microsoft brings.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

i am curious to see what happens...

[@natzos6372]

Why is OpenAI toast? Im not following

[@AdeleiTeillana]

What is the "this" you are talking about? Are we supposed to guess what the "this" is that is/was a killer move?

[@daviddosuu]

😂

[@KysarEllsworth-ju9pq]

This video is truly amazing and more people should watch it, along with the rest of your videos Phil! I love the way you described Sam throughout the video and the interviews that were in it as well. Thank you! Please keep it up!

[@Ausbos5]

One of the best videos on the internet. Wow. Quality through the roof.

[@PostcovidGalaxim]

The "All you need is attention" is a published paper, it works, and Claude has LLM which is just as good. If OpenAI has a better model, let's see it!

[@BusriderZegradet]

everyone's competing now. That's GOOD for the science. That's how we got this far, by having the algorithms compete with each other!

[@brianmi40]

o1 Preview is #1 on the AI leaderboard.

[@the_crypter]

@@brianmi40 Only as long as the others don't release a new version. Constant rat race.

[@brianmi40]

@@the_crypter Pay attention more. He said "let's see it", and I showed it to him. Neither of us is discussing the future. But hey, thanks for stating the obvious about the "future". We always need that.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

@@BusriderZegradet You're hurting whatever organ processes my experience of Poe's Law.

[@robinmichel9048]

I am all about my little spiral notebook. Can't get behind the double collar though, unless they're popped, as is proper.

[@BPBomber]

Very well done Mr. Phil. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[@1.4142]

These videos are getting seriously good

[@mohammedal-obaidi1878]

Thanks!

[@ThePresentPast_]

I love the notebook and rubric cube idea. Great video!

[@fireant202]

I’ve always gotten the sense that Altman is a successful deal maker who has gotten lost in his own drive for success: he’s given up trying to do things the “right” way since he’s more focused on that growth.

[@sehwagali]

Thank you young Gary Oldman for this video. Nicely done!

[@gmenezesdea]

Should we let it happen? I can't do anything about it. If I had my way there would be no billionaires.

[@nusu5331]

finally someone, thank you for the great video!

[@kaizen5023]

We cannot trust SamA. The OpenAI board knew this, and that is why they tried to get rid of him, and that is why Ilya Sutakever and the many AGI safety team members have quit. They were starved of resources to work on safety, so Sam's claims of wanting to develop AI safely are bullshit. I don't like Elon either, but he is right to be concerned about an AI dystopian future.

[@GoodandBasic]

Incredible analysis. Thank you for posting.

[@SonuOfBostonia]

He also said we need an energy breakthrough to make AI profitable and sustainable. Which likely won't happen anytime soon. At least not large scale 🙂

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

he's trying with helion though!

[@drinksanddice9528]

If you are ever interested about how GPT-3/4 and Grammarly AI have just decimated students GPAs and wasted a lot of English Professors time, I know a ton of profs, students, examples, and librarians who'd love to vent.

[@thevaidik_]

Lets go finally! I was searching about him. Excellent documentary

[@iminoaruu]

the production of this video is great, i really like the rubik cube part

[@elkamliomar6985]

I loved everything about the video the script the visuals the cube. A big fan from morocco ❤❤

[@mojo3898]

This was not much of a deep dive.

[@atticusiscoollastname488]

he never said it was 🤔

[@ai-hb4et]

19:15 the Senator is right to worry when big tech says "please regulate me more". Interestingly, the FTX founder asked and lobbied the Gov for crypto regulation before it went under.

[@CH-fp6gj]

Please regulate us into a monopoly is the play. Only x approved companies can operate legally.

[@AIForHumansShow]

amazing video phil -- and I will say something interesting about the YT algo... so I saw this thumbnail multiple times and kept meaning to watch it but either a) got distracted or b) saw something else that took me away from it. *Somehow* it knew that I really did want to watch this and it kept serving it. Which is prob good.

[@nikhoward]

Brilliant one. Your best yet.

[@uomoartificiale]

May I suggest - as good as your video certainly is - that there's actually no complex human enigma to dispel here. Just another man that sold his soul to money, over the quantity or the usefulness that would have any value or reason. The latest product of the current stage of post-late-whatever capitalism, nothing to understand, no mystery, just the perfect guy the finance world needs to keep playing the game and ignore that their time here is done, once the new impoverished generations will no longer provide substance to the investment markets.

[@bendericodotcom]

Fantastic video, Phil!!!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

thanks ben!

[@JohnSmith-b4w]

The real power of AI is in its ability to manipulate and control people, and I think people like Sam Altman realize this.

[@thatjpwing]

This is an excellent video. The production values are top notch and I really enjoyed this look at sama and friends. And because I apparently live under a rock, I didn't know Musk was part of the sama ventures.

[@emilskovgaard5829]

Excellent video 👌

[@SquatLight55]

I think the scariest, most-telling behind the curtain look into Sam Altman is the fact he has a 50 acre ranch with a survival bunker in fear of AI’s takeover… as the CEO of the leading AI company.

[@ieltshome]

He reminds me of Littlefinger in the Game of Thrones. He understands how power works and sides with whoever will grant him more power. He sided with MS to drive out Elon, the biggest financial contributor to OpenAI up until that moment.

[@pnwTaco]

great format and presentation style

[@dj0ai]

Great production. Sam Altman is one of the most interesting people these days.

[@jamespusey7186]

we're so back (just like always)

[@SageAwakens]

This is the first video I'm watching from you. I didn't expect it to be this good. Well done. I like this concept of corporate power struggles. Could make more videos based on this theme? Thanks Phil. Subbed.

[@jamesbogart3334]

I'm really working on curating my social media and online content feed to be stuff that educates me and enriches my life, rather then frustrating and angering me. Needless to say, Phil Edwards is staying on my day-one watch list.

[@ThomasVanderWal]

This was quite good. It was one of the better explorations on Sam Altman and there is likely more than enough to have a part 2 that is equally as good. Altman is very complicated and has many side and works to keep them all hidden. The OpenAI side of things has a lot of room for focus as well. The early company brought together many great tech folks who were insanely good under the founding principle of a safe AI (generative AI) that has guardrails. Most of the great people that started with the company are now gone and have gone to places where they can continue to hold on to that initial goal and have build alternatives that are better products, but they don't have the slick pitchman.

[@aurious5821]

He is so smugly arrogant that watching him drives me up a wall

[@GlennDavidson]

Ugh.. even in 2014 I was still seeing "Loopt-style" app ideas being shopped around when I was working as a contract app developer - especially as dating and delivery apps using location data had become popular around that time. Always our first question was "why would someone want to share their live location with your app?", followed by "have you thought about how this can be abused?" - the number of times that "entrepreneurs" had gone through several rounds of pitching and funding without anyone asking this before was eye-opening.

[@JohnFoley1701]

The uniball .5 is mid when it comes to microliners. The ink bleeds too much.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

haha i wasn't that impressed with it when i used it, now that you mention it

[@kylev.8248]

Sam Altman is weird, but doesn’t deserve this roast. His app World App will change the world for the better (despite the terrifying implications)

[@nickdambrosia2304]

Excellent video. From the story to the visuals, you nailed it

[@alicecubensis1221]

I feel I was maybe a bit too critical of your elon musk video, but I think this video really shines in comparison. You clearly did a lot of really good research and I think it's a somewhat more nuanced take than I've seen in a lot of other coverage. Thanks for making it!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

thanks for keeping watching!

[@ropro9817]

I'm so sick and tired of seeing Sam's overtweezed eyebrows on the news... 😒

[@drsmit]

One of your best yet!

[@JohnSmith-b4w]

I've noticed that whenever someone says something critical of AI on the internet lately, someone jumps in to defend it. I found an account on reddit that made 15 comments defending AI in the span of a half hour. And comments suggesting bots are being used to do this are quickly downvoted. I think I see them at work in these comments.

[@180_S]

Sam Altman gives me the absolute creeps

[@potpieiscool]

Honestly didn't see anything "evil" or bad in Sam's actions. He's just a nerdy tech guy who wants to do really well...

[@isaacmleonard]

This is so well done

[@joshfowler7460]

The tech industry is so funny. Also it is hilarious that it’s “leaders” use an immature platform(twitter) to primarily communicate

[@olakunleofficial]

what makes a social media platform used by millions immature? Whats wrong with using it? its social media, it how people communicate in the modern day

[@wabbasMEpern]

Great vid as always Mr. Spade

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

so much more rewarding for me than "hollywood minute"

[@alaeifR]

Need a deep unpack of all past and current OpenAI board members and what the factions of the coup really wanted.

[@mikemurphy80]

It’s a Phil Sunday 🎉

[@harry1010]

Second! Dang, I just know this is gonna be a brilliant watch. Well done for all your hard work as always!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

🥈

[@BrendanMillerExplains]

Brilliant video. Really good way to get a handle on him. Love the rubix cube device as well.

[@Iightbeing]

Kudos for standing in support of the double collar polo. Class act.