The Winding Path of Progress | Sam Altman | Talks at Google

[@jennifersmiles]

Tags* for those with interest but no time: 2:31 net positive impact in world = impact maximization/regret minimization 9:13 unconscious bias 13:44 non obvious underrated skills = Determination, Independent Thought 20:36 upside of AI - will solve human suffering in the next few decades 21:54 cryptocurrency 27:30 optimistic future, progress is not a perfectly exponential curve 30:10 tech brings people together, equality 30:42 economic justice is social justice 30:56 United Slate, vision of success 36:43 tech person running for office 38:36 achieve happiness, read about it 40:15 YC continuity, growth 42:25 universal basic income, if everyone (SV) does jobs = economy grows, eliminate poverty 44:39 piece of advice, do not get sucked in life/path, do what you must 50:42 Sam’s plan, will continue with YC, help people 52:18 Sam, the talent allocator versus capital allocator 55:03 privileges that led to Sam’s life now 56:29 biases in products can be alleviated by diverse teams 57:18 compute > data 58:00 spiritual needs 1:00:01 Sam supports Open AI insight so that there can be appropriate measures for regs Thanks for sharing the talk!

[@gouravnamta3705]

jennifersmiles thanks for your efforts. Needed it

[@jamesleidhold]

21:04 "Disaster porn"

[@jeffreysaltinstall5059]

This comment is useless. Should be pushed to the bottom. Zero insights.

[@jennifersmiles]

They are topical tags

[@jeffreysaltinstall5059]

Not "notes" as you described them...if you have insightful notes, please mark accordingly.

[@Eric_Kabucha_]

I could listen to Sam talk all day. He’s a good teacher.

[@samirkarki192]

the guy is slowly becoming one of the most important person of our age.

[@RandomEcom]

lets hope ai is all good and safe i hope he doesn't become some sort of oppenheimer where he ends up regretting his decisions

[@intelligencequipo5095]

Elon time is over Now Sam is The Captain

[@intelligencequipo5095]

@@RandomEcom No

[@Aziz0938]

I think that's demis hassabis

[@2CSST2]

Slowly? :P

[@ValueMaverick]

Who knew we will be looking back at time and watch this video? Phenomenal session.

[@junpark8345]

If google had started invested in him at the time...

[@RobinHablani]

He joined OpenAi later. So technically he was not a cofounder

[@gobidasu217]

Really great job interviewing, Jorge!

[@dylan_curious]

I totally agree with Sam about the importance of determination in a founder. It's so easy to give up when things go wrong, but it takes true grit to keep pushing forward and find a way to overcome the challenges. And I think it's really cool that YC is looking for founders who have that quality, rather than just focusing on the idea or the network. As for independent thought, I think that's also really important. It can be tough to break out of the mold and think for yourself, especially when there are so many social pressures pushing you in certain directions. But I think it's important for entrepreneurs to be able to see things in a different way and come up with innovative ideas that nobody else has thought of. Overall, I think these are some great insights into what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur, and I'm excited to see what kind of companies YC will fund in the future

[@johnweningerii1977]

I would love to hear a conversation with Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman. Thank you for making this video and series. It is particularly informative.

[@skyless7304]

Sam Altman is soon becoming a legend

[@maasdd]

sam is so amazing, just the right person to lead it, so smart, compassionate, sharp and ambitious

[@joolean7799]

Highly valuable content and insights, thanks Sam! ❤️

[@jeffreysaltinstall5059]

JOOLEAN get a life. there are zero insights here. he's pathetic.

[@AnyaChuri]

Adore you Sam!

[@ronfrancv286]

Great interview questions and really good answers. Nice job.

[@tak68tak]

Interesting. Thanks for the KZbin recommend engine.

[@chrisd3065]

Sam Altman is one smart dude

[@juanpablosjoberg3531]

Quite interesting! And considering that this was 6 years ago, even more so! Such profound and current reflections from Altman back then.

[@luluw4424]

Thanks for sharing valuable content full of insightful thoughts and wisdom!

[@jeffreysaltinstall5059]

haha if he's going to give a talk, don't wear a top so you dress like a homeless person lol

[@cory99998]

Wow, he was even right about nuclear fusion, it happened 5 years later

[@LearningProducers]

Excellent discussion 🥇

[@DavidProrok]

He mentions the UBI experiment was 8 months into a 5 year project… it’s been 4 years since this was uploaded 🤨

[@goparadisetravel]

13:40 being really determined

[@matt.stevick]

Sam Altman is the Man. Big Brained. 🤖🖤💚📈🇺🇸

[@EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful]

Sam Altman = the nicest guy in Silicon Valley

[@jeffreysaltinstall5059]

Evan, go away. you don't know him. he's ruthless.

[@EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful]

Rubbish. If you're an investor & entrepreneur...you need to be. Otherwise, you'll get eaten alive by others.

[@AnyaChuri]

So true!

[@adamlee9347]

Hell nah

[@bekind6869]

LMAO (after Open AI blew up)

[@МарияГаврилова-ж2й]

Сам я сегодня была в Краснодаре там уже тепло и цветы цветут травка зацвела❤❤

[@Necromancer-kz4rx]

This is really helpful. Thanks. 🙏🏻

[@wiseheroes9003]

Love Sam! Great talk. Turning down most (free) partnership proposals - 99.999% secret to sustaining and eliminating time waste/frustration.

[@rhmcvay]

Wow. Retro Sam!

[@theeagle7054]

Sam Altman is one of the nicest guy i have heard speak on KZbin

[@chemzard]

You should do this exact same talk (same questions) with Altman, in 2022, after 2 years of Covid, after 1 year of Jan 06 Capitol attack and after 1 year of Joe Biden...some of his 2017 answers are prescient (UBI) and others are off-base or not discussed at all (global warming).

[@mmughal]

He should run for president in the US period

[@DavidProrok]

What’s the fusion company he mentions? Helion or something?

[@habebnino]

You the best sam

[@jaywalker11]

Thank you

[@ChoudharyVish-rp4pg]

That time who knows he will become CEO of Open AI and Compete with Google 😂

[@Aziz0938]

Wasn't he ceo of openai by that time

[@Paul-km9ox]

Sam looks like Richard Hendricks from Silicon Valley

[@MammothBehemoth]

He talks a bit like him too, when he pauses, use fillers, and other verbal ticks

[@Rensoku611]

33:00 what government regulations? if anything more regulations are needed: huge companies are buying up all the housing. If they mean removing NIMBY regulations then yeah that should be removed

[@ketakidixitawasthi2221]

Sam Altman is the God of AI... 🙏

[@haythamal-dokanji9547]

I learn something every time I listen to Sam. He is razor-sharp. But still the great Sam got Bitcoin wrong. It was a disastrous store of value, anything but digital gold.

Sam Altman is really very intelligent, new technologies gave him a chance, I believe that Americans who have studied tirelessly are the smartest in the world and the most handsome too,haha

[@ApexSportsbooks]

It is interesting how now he is fighting against google now

[@pancakeeatinginarow]

I dont think so

[@pancakeeatinginarow]

He is just creating creating base for the AI. Its just beginning

[@bergssprangare]

He was doing open source before OPenAI..Seems to be using the successfully

[@dukensonguerrier5369]

Just a reminder that even the smartest minds can ask thoughtless questions, derailing the entire convo & thus changing the trajectory of what could have been the most informative talks. I understand how important politics is, but I’d rather hear how to deliver ground breaking tech in a competitive space. Really didn’t extract the true value out of Sam.

[@nicowong2428]

great talk

[@alleaktien-insider]

Truly great video -- inspired me to start investing and share my knowledge from McKinsey :)

[@MrS85755]

So you just started investing huh, "Michael Stark Investing"

[@JoshKaufmanstuff]

@ 1:00:22 Want to see an awkward pre-hand shake?

[@yoloswag6242]

His fly is open the whole time

[@joshreji7510]

23:00 predicating the crypto bubble

[@ArtOfHealth]

Thank You Sam and teams for Chat GPT4. Thank you Google for Bard. It is a blast. Thank you Microsoft. Yours is very thorough, but, it appears to be emotional and self-protective and very secretive. We shall see😁.

[@avinkon]

❤️ you got to live only once , so do things u would love to do n personally fulfilling , spend time with people who you care for . Guiding framework for life : Impact maximisation/ regret minimization Spend a lil bit of your effort doing a lot of things and relentlessly prune down to things u like and seems to be working

[@skytechaerial1883]

Smart.

[@prannjalshinde]

First and last time Google called him for talk. 🗿

[@cubetube1814]

Chatgpt

[@julianriise5618]

I don't quite get the point on diversity, what would be the benefit of choosing employers based on their gender and skin colour? I don't understand how that is important or relevant? Would you not hire based on ability or track record? Maybe someone from USA could fill me in. Thanks!

[@ivan5844]

Good point

[@onseayu]

well, it's because we have a lot of insincere people who are really concerned about what others think of them, so they've all competitively circle-jerked each other into seeing your allegiance to these arbitrary set of values as some form of currency. so you'll see a lot us feigning outrage at some conjured injustice that we don't really care about, or at times we'll seem to be inanely obsessed with the topic. you notice they don't really seem to care about diversity of thought so much, but making sure we've collected all the different skintones and genital types is SUPER important.

[@chhimi4025]

@@onseayu creating quotas for traditionally under represented minorities will help encourage them to join the field more. This allows the pool of talent that companies can hire from larger. Another way to think about it is that it's an attempt to offsett the affects of years of oppression that made certain minorities less skillful or engaged in those fields.

[@onseayu]

@@chhimi4025 right, at the cost of people who are completely innocent. great system. maybe we should look into everyone's history and punish them for the their ancestor's actions. and let's just assume that everyone with a certain skintone has the exact same history. nevermind reality. this is, even on its face, incredibly stupid.

[@onseayu]

@@chhimi4025 oh, and racist. i forgot to mention that. it's incredibly racist. but i'm sure you all are fine with that. whatever gets you more virtual virtue rght?

[@BrutalStrike2]

26:26 Twitter is like dogs on the leash

[@RamdasDhore-p4i]

everyone ends up believing in either god, the simulation hypothesis, or the weirdness of physics. - Sam Altman

[@Patcul]

Interesting what he said about productivity, spend more time doing the things you should, and think less about how efficiently you are doing them..

[@hanskraut2018]

"world keeps getting better we keep getting unhappyer". Its probably just that problems are payed attention to that where previously ignored/public perception calmed with lies/"putting under the rug" Dont think so all metrics increase with increasing gdp per capita and individuals being better of because more ressources

[@Entertainerhridaya]

❤

[@AndreaRoccoMatta]

38:35 delete social apps from phone: done.

[@socialzeon9109]

Sam Altman is awesome

[@Hustlewith_Spicy]

44:54

[@MadaTangdilallo]

Aku bukan di bali

[@cappystrano1]

I like Sam but he won't be so popular when his comments about Silicon Valley reach the public. But....he is right in his assessment of SV. It's days are numbered!!

[@MaheshJoshi_wellington]

who is here after using chat GPT !

[@goldnutter412]

Universal DATA Income

[@Zeeshan-bv7mo]

Sam altman is super hero...🦾🤖.

[@fergalhennessy775]

bro was recruiting 🤣

[@modusponens1094]

Interesting answers to simple-minded questions.

[@believeandreceivedmyhusban3005]

Hay sam Altman how can I have my 50000 dollars job now sand the address righ now in my phone

[@Abhishek-xp6nr]

hi

[@prepschoolnerd]

check yo privilege sam 😅

[@ItsAnanyaGhosh]

Lol.. Sounds ironic aftrr the.whole ai war

[@jack2ky]

This is the worst Sam Altman speech I have seen. His bashing of Trump is so wrong. It questions how strong and smart he is.

[@hydoffdhagaweyne1037]

So people can't voice their political opinions now? Your take is super flawed.

[@ryanklein7466]

k this guy said creative jobs are easy... so then why do you dress like a four year old?

[@LarsLarsen77]

So I'm not a smart reasonable person?

[@adamlee9347]

No

[@ivan5844]

You're dude use u intelligence for good 🤙

[@onseayu]

if you don't completely agree with the cult? then obviously, no, no you're not and you deserve to be rounded up with the rest of your kind and sent to a re-education camp.

[@Barbale98]

Is this guy really trying to say AI will solve poverty? He really doesn’t understand the world he lives is

[@maximilliandirnfeld2442]

not into the woke stuff he says

[@Patcul]

He's just saying there an even playing field. It's not that woke.

[@jeffreysaltinstall5059]

Hey Sam, say something public, original and interesting. I dare you.

[@cappystrano1]

Wow, butt hurt much?