Interview Quotes

The Dawn of Superintelligence and Its Implications

"This is like a crazy amount of power for one piece of technology, and it's happened to us so fast."

— SPEAKER_03 • 00:16:13

"A kid born today will never be smarter than AI."

— SPEAKER_03 • 00:17:50

"Right now, they're trying to build a super intelligence that could far exceed humans in almost every field."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:25:09

"We're in the middle of the highest stakes global race any of us have ever seen."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:27:22

"Most people never live through a technological shift like this. And it's happening all around you and me right now."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:29:10

"You recently said, surprisingly recently, that GPT-4 was the dumbest model any of us will ever have to use again."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:35:35

"People will use it for all sorts of incredible things. It will transform a lot of knowledge work, a lot of the way we learn, a lot of the way we create."

— SPEAKER_03 • 00:43:08

"I think this is like unprecedented at any point in human history that I that technology has improved this much this fast."

— SPEAKER_03 • 00:47:35

"The thing that I am most excited about is this is a model for the first time where I feel like I can ask kind of any hard scientific or technical question and get a pretty good answer."

— SPEAKER_03 • 00:50:49

"And it just, the game live updates. And I'm like, actually, I'd like it to look this way. Actually, I'd like to do this thing."

— SPEAKER_03 • 00:56:54

"So this idea that GPT-5 can just not only like answer all these hard questions for you, but really create like on-demand, almost instantaneous software. That's, I think that's going to be one of the defining elements of the GPT-5 era in a way that did not exist with GPT-4."

— SPEAKER_03 • 01:01:41

"And when I think about our creative process and when I've felt most, like I've done my best work, it has required an enormous amount of cognitive time under tension."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:03:26

"It's different with, I mean, there are some people who are clearly using Chachipiti not to think. And there are some people who are using it to think more than they ever have before."

— SPEAKER_03 • 01:10:10

"I have been most impressed by the coding tasks. I mean, there's a lot of other things it's really good at, but this, I, this idea of the AI can write software for anything."

— SPEAKER_03 • 01:23:32

"But then when they have to go back to GPT-4 to test something that feels terrible. And I, I don't know exactly what the cause of that is, but I suspect part of it is the writing feels so much more natural and better."

— SPEAKER_03 • 01:28:40

"What, what comes after GPT-5? In which year do you think a large language model will make a significant scientific discovery?"

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:32:16

"I would say most people will agree that that happens at some point over the next two years, but the definition of significant matters a lot."

— SPEAKER_03 • 01:33:15

"So we've gone from a few seconds to a few minutes to an hour and a half, maybe to prove a significant new mathematical theorem is like a thousand hours of work for a top person in the world."

— SPEAKER_03 • 01:41:45

"If we had a system that could do better research, better AI research than, say, the whole open AI research team."

— SPEAKER_03 • 01:46:11

"That is a sentence that would have sounded like science fiction just a couple of years ago."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:50:14

"I suspect we will find that for a lot of science, it's not enough to just think harder about data we have, but we will need to build new instruments, conduct new experiments, and that will take some time."

— SPEAKER_03 • 01:55:28

"Fact is what is. Truth is what it means."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:58:48

"But I have been surprised. I think many other people have been surprised, too, about how fluent AI is at adapting to different cultural contexts and individuals."

— SPEAKER_03 • 02:03:38

"My sense is what's going to happen is it's just going to gradually converge."

— SPEAKER_03 • 02:13:17

"So it's sort of an education question."

— SPEAKER_02 • 02:19:31

"There are some leaders in the AI space that have said that in five years, half of the entry-level white-collar workforce will be replaced by AI."

— SPEAKER_02 • 02:24:31

"I think it's totally true that some classes of jobs will totally go away. This always happens. And young people are the best at adapting to this."

— SPEAKER_03 • 02:27:17

"If I were 22 right now and graduating college, I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history."

— SPEAKER_03 • 02:30:07

"The number one piece of tactical advice is just use the tools."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:27:23

"Like, you are totally right. There are people who say this is going to kill us all, and yet they still are working 100 hours a week to build it."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:39:54

"If that's what I really, truly believed, I don't think I'd be trying to build it."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:41:24

"I'm always interested in the, like—without knowing anything about the person—I'm always interested in the, like, of all of the things you could spend your time and energy on, why did you pick this one?"

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:53:31

"I was an AI nerd my whole life."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:54:48

"There's a lot of things we could do that would grow faster, that would get more time in ChachiBT, that we don't do because we know that our long-term incentive is to stay as aligned with our users as possible."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:15:45

"Well, we haven't put a sex bot avatar in ChachiBT yet."

— SPEAKER_01 • 04:18:32

"I would say we're out of the first inning. Second inning."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:21:51

"I think the worst thing we've done in ChatGPT so far is we had this issue with sycophancy where the model was kind of being too flattering to users."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:24:34

"But this is like, just thinking about that really hit me of like, this is like a crazy amount of power for one piece of technology to have."

— SPEAKER_03 • 03:41:08

"I think it is great that ChatGPT is less of a yes man and gives you more critical feedback. But as we've been making those changes and talking to users about it, it's so sad to hear users say like, please, can I have it back?"

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:27:49

"I think it'll just start to feel integrated in all of these ways."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:33:45

"One of the things that I have heard about GPC five, and I'm still playing with it, is that it is supposed to be less effusively, you know, less of a yes man."

— SPEAKER_02 • 04:29:40

"The number one piece of advice that I give is just try to, like, get fluent with the capability of the tools."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:28:49

"And I think that's what will happen with AI. Like, you know, kids born today, they never knew the world without AI."

— SPEAKER_03 • 03:24:05

"I think there's a big difference between winning the race and building the AI future that would be best for the most people."

— SPEAKER_02 • 04:11:07

"I think the great parts will be great. The bad parts will be scary and the bizarre parts will be like. Bizarre on the first day and then we'll get used to them really fast."

— SPEAKER_03 • 03:10:49

"I think we will be able to use these tools to cure a significant number or at least treat a significant number of diseases that currently plague us."

— SPEAKER_03 • 03:56:30

"I would like to be able to ask GPT-8 to go cure a particular cancer."

— SPEAKER_03 • 03:59:07

"I think we're in uncharted waters here."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:04:19

"It seems to me likely that we will decide we need to think about how access to this maybe most important resource of the future gets shared."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:07:21

"My favorite historical example for the AI revolution is the transistor."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:09:23

"And that's the beauty of our society. We kind of all I love this like idea that society is the super intelligence."

— SPEAKER_03 • 04:13:47

"So maybe the ask to millions of people is build on it well."

— SPEAKER_02 • 04:14:58