Andrew Marantz

Well, for one thing, we compare him to Oppenheimer because he compares himself to Oppenheimer.

Constantly.

Constant throughout the rhetoric before OpenAI existed for why it needed to exist, there's this constant thread of analogies to the Manhattan Project.

So when he emails Elon Musk out of the blue in May of 2015,

He says, hi, Elon.

This is Sam.

He says, I think we need a Manhattan Project for AI.

And it does have this dual-edged nature to it, which is both we're going to be the good guys and defeat the bad guys, right?

Yeah, but so in this case, instead of the Nazis, it's –

either China in a national security context or Google in a competitive corporate context.

ChatGPT is a useful tool that can help you write emails and...

AGI is supposed to be able to do any cognitive task that any person can do arguably better.

So it's general because it can not only write emails or play chess, but it can also...

discover new drugs or solve new medical problems or break new ground in physics.

So we're not quite there yet.

Yeah.

He, in a sense, you know, what every entrepreneur does is, you know, bring together technical talent and investors and merge them into a solvent company.

So in that sense, it's not that remarkable.

I think what makes him unusual is he's not bringing this kind of

bull in a china shop you know he's not elon musk or jeff bezos and just saying i'm gonna bulldoze my way to power he brings this kind of subtle sales pitch around 2014 2015 2016 where the public is feeling kind of burned out on the bluster of tech tycoons you know everyone's suddenly mad at social media uh republicans for stifling their speech and democrats for giving us trump and whatever