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Explore AI's impact on productivity, hardware, and the future. Sam Altman shares insights on delegation, innovation, and the evolving role of AI in business and society.
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Sam Altman
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"I think you always are, people almost never allocate their time as well as they think they do, and as you have more demands and more opportunities, you find ways to continue to be more efficient, but we've been able to hire and promote great people, and I delegate a lot to them and get them to take stuff on, and that is kind of the only sustainable way I know how to do it."
— Sam Altman • 00:31:09
"I guess another thing that's happened is more of the world wants to work with us, so deals are quicker to negotiate."
— Sam Altman • 00:41:16
"One thing that's different is that cycle times are much longer, the capital is more intense, the cost of screen-up is higher, so I like to spend more time getting to know the people before saying, okay, you just go do this, and I'll trust that it'll work out. But it's kind of otherwise, the theory is the same. You try to find good, effective, fast-moving people, get clear on what the goal is, and just let them go do it."
— Sam Altman • 00:54:48
"Look, I don't know if this is going to turn out to be a good sign or a bad sign, but our chip team feels more like the OpenAI research team than a chip company."
— Sam Altman • 01:10:52
"He's like a very lateral thinker. You can start down one path and sort of jump somewhere completely else, but keep going down, you know, stay on like the same trajectory, but in some sort of like very different context, that that's sort of unusual. He's clearly, he's great at phrasing observations in an interesting, useful, whatever way. And that sort of makes him fun and quite like useful to talk to. I don't know. He brings together like a lot of skills that don't often exist in one person's head."
— Sam Altman • 01:27:09
"I very rarely get to have anybody work on anything. Like one thing about researchers is they're going to work on what they're going to work on. And that's kind of that."
— Sam Altman • 01:40:15
"I'll agree email is bad. I don't know if Slack is good. I suspect it's not. I think email is very bad. So the threshold to make something better than email is not high. And I think Slack is better than email."
— Sam Altman • 01:46:42
"I suspect there is something new to build that is going to replace a lot of the current sort of office productivity suite, whatever you think of like docs, slides, email, Slack, whatever, that will be sort of the AI driven version of all of these things."
— Sam Altman • 01:54:03
"I think GPT-5 is the first moment where you see a glimmer of AI doing new science. It's like very tiny things, but you know, here and there, someone's posting like, oh, it figured this thing out or, oh, it came up with this new idea. Oh, it was like a useful collaborator on this paper."
— Sam Altman • 02:20:00
"And I'm very interested in this because like, shame on me if open AI is not the first big company run by an AI CEO, right? But just parts of it."
— Sam Altman • 02:44:06
"I think you'll have billion dollar companies run by two or three people with AIs. I don't know, in two and a half years, I used to think one year, but maybe I've put it off a bit. I'm not more pessimistic about the AI. Maybe I'm more pessimistic about the humans."
— Sam Altman • 02:59:38
"People have a great deal higher trust in other people over an AI, even if they shouldn't, even if that's irrational. You know, the AI doctor is better, but you want the human, whatever."
— Sam Altman • 03:08:41
"A big one is how they use AI today. And the people who still are like, oh yeah, you know, I'd use it for better Google search and nothing else. That's not necessarily disqualifier, but that's like a yellow flag."
— Sam Altman • 03:27:00
"And people who are like seriously considering like what their day-to-day is going to look like in three years, that's a green flag."
— Sam Altman • 03:30:37
"In some level, like at some level, when something gets sufficiently huge, whether or not they are on paper, the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort, as we've seen in various financial crises and insurance companies screwing things up."
— Sam Altman • 03:53:32
"The future holds the same for AI companies where the feds are your insurer? And how do you plan for that? Again, even if AI is pretty safe, as with nuclear power, people are nervous Nellies. How will you insure everything?"
— Speaker 01 • 03:45:40
"But we don't live our lives that way. We, we don't, we just kind of try to like work with capitalism as it currently exists. And I believe that that should be done by the companies and not the government. Although we'll partner with the government and try to be like a good collaborator. Like I don't, don't want them like writing our insurance policies."
— Sam Altman • 04:31:02
"Ads on a Google search are dependent on Google doing badly. Like if it was giving you the best answer, there'd be no reason ever to buy an ad above it. So you kind of like, you're like, that thing is not quite aligned with me."
— Sam Altman • 05:19:18
"Chat GPT, maybe it gives you the best answer. Maybe it doesn't, but you're paying it or hopefully all are paying it. And it's at least trying to give you the best answer. And that has led to people having like a deep and pretty trusting relationship with chat GPT."
— Sam Altman • 05:24:00
"If chat GPT were accepting payment to put a worse hotel above a better hotel, that's probably catastrophic for your relationship with chat GPT."
— Sam Altman • 05:33:13
"I think the way to monetize the world's smartest model is certainly not hotel booking."
— Sam Altman • 06:04:48
"But my most likely story about how this works, how the world gets like dramatically better, is we put a really great super intelligence in the hands of everybody. We make it super easy to use. It's nicely integrated. We make you beautiful devices. We connected all your services."
— Sam Altman • 06:24:44
"What will the ad look like on the page? I have no idea. You asked like a question about productivity earlier. Yeah. I'm really good about not doing the things I don't want to do. And that's something you don't want to do?"
— Sam Altman • 07:17:31
"There's all the arguments that everyone has made. The one I would like to see people talk about much more is how are you even supposed to think about like vastly superhuman intelligence and the economic impacts of that?"
— Sam Altman • 07:52:18
"Short-term natural gas. Long-term it will be dominated, I believe, by fusion and by solar. I don't know what ratio, but I would say those are the two winners."
— Sam Altman • 08:30:04
"In the same way that people always want more energy if it's cheaper, I think people always want more compute if it's cheaper."
— Sam Altman • 09:06:33
"I was going to say, I don't want to say GPT, whether it's 6 or 7, but I think we will get to something where you will say, this is not a long way to the very best, but this is a real poet's okay poem."
— Sam Altman • 09:54:07
"The fact that the AI is better, they don't care. Watching two AIs play each other, not that fun for that long."
— Sam Altman • 10:14:33
"So chat GPT, I think is very much like a, a single player experience. I don't think that means there's not some interesting new kind of social product to build."
— Sam Altman • 11:20:20
"We are going to try to make you a new kind of computer with a completely new kind of interface. That is meant for AI, which I think we're want something completely different than the computing paradigm we've been using for the last 50 years that we're currently stuck in."
— Sam Altman • 11:42:01
"I suspect that the whole model should change, but I don't know what to like. I think the ideal partnership would look like we try 20 different experiments. We see like what leads to the best results."
— Sam Altman • 12:28:15
"I would kind of guess that it goes down at a slightly higher rate than the last decade, but it does not like collapse to zero as fast as it should."
— Sam Altman • 12:58:00
"I am not a believer that the, I think the most important thing AI will do is discover new science for all of us."
— Sam Altman • 13:21:20
"A year from now, maybe 30% of people will use ChatGPT that week. People, once they start using it, do find more and more sophisticated things to use it for."
— Sam Altman • 13:45:07
"So I don't think books will be gone, but I would bet they're like a smaller percentage of how people like learn a new or interact with a new idea."
— Sam Altman • 14:10:44
"This has become like a real, and I have like a cultural habit and like a rhythm of my work day at this point, spending time with my family, like spending time in nature, you know, eating food, my interactions with my friends, that stuff, I sort of expect to change almost not at all."
— Sam Altman • 14:25:20
"AI will improve many things very quickly, but what's the time horizon for making rent or home prices cheaper? That seems like a tough one. Not the fault of AI, but land is land and there's a lot of legal restrictions."
— Speaker 01 • 14:40:36
"I would bet healthcare gets cheaper. Through pharmaceuticals and devices and even like delivery of actual healthcare services, housing is the one to me that just looks super hard."
— Sam Altman • 15:26:34
"We used to not, uh, a long time. I mean, well, that's not totally fair. We're going to allow more than we did in the past, but like a very important principle to me is that we treat our adult users like adults and that people have a very high degree of privacy with their AI, which we need legal change for."
— Sam Altman • 15:55:50
"I believe that we should apply at least as much, well, I believe we should apply as much protection as when you talk to your doctor, your human doctor, or your human lawyer, as you do when you talk to your AI doctor or AI lawyer."
— Sam Altman • 16:25:34
"The thing I worry about more is it's funny, the things that like stick in your mind. Someone said to me once, like, never, ever let yourself believe that propaganda doesn't work on you. They just haven't found the right thing for you yet."
— Sam Altman • 17:08:01
"There's this other category that gets very little talk that I think is sort of much scarier and more interesting, which is the AI models like accidentally take over the world."
— Sam Altman • 17:18:45
"There will come, this is like a kind of spirit, spiritually, not literally. There will come a moment where the super intelligence is built. It is safety tested. It is ready to go. It is going to like, you know, we'll still be able to supervise it, but it's going to do just like vastly incredible things."
— Sam Altman • 17:44:10
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