Barry Weiss

Now, sitting here in December of 2024, ChatGPT is a household name. So is OpenAI, and of course, some of your competitors are too, like Perplexity and Gemini and Claude. And average Americans are using these tools every day, everything from math tutoring to debugging code to drafting emails, and it's very, very good at doing that.

Now, sitting here in December of 2024, ChatGPT is a household name. So is OpenAI, and of course, some of your competitors are too, like Perplexity and Gemini and Claude. And average Americans are using these tools every day, everything from math tutoring to debugging code to drafting emails, and it's very, very good at doing that.

Tell me about how ChatGPT and, I guess, AI technology more broadly has changed since we last spoke a year and a half ago and whether or not it's where you expected it to be today or further along.

Tell me about how ChatGPT and, I guess, AI technology more broadly has changed since we last spoke a year and a half ago and whether or not it's where you expected it to be today or further along.

Tell me about how ChatGPT and, I guess, AI technology more broadly has changed since we last spoke a year and a half ago and whether or not it's where you expected it to be today or further along.

Give me a sense of, like, how are you using the tool that you have helped create in your daily life? Like, the way that most people I know are using it, Tyler Cowen and lots of people who are, like, passionate early adopters, it almost seems to have, like, replaced Google for them. And it's just, like, a much, much deeper Google. Is that how it's working for you?

Give me a sense of, like, how are you using the tool that you have helped create in your daily life? Like, the way that most people I know are using it, Tyler Cowen and lots of people who are, like, passionate early adopters, it almost seems to have, like, replaced Google for them. And it's just, like, a much, much deeper Google. Is that how it's working for you?

Give me a sense of, like, how are you using the tool that you have helped create in your daily life? Like, the way that most people I know are using it, Tyler Cowen and lots of people who are, like, passionate early adopters, it almost seems to have, like, replaced Google for them. And it's just, like, a much, much deeper Google. Is that how it's working for you?

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

What do you call it? Do you call it searching or is there a verb in the way that Googling is a verb?

What do you call it? Do you call it searching or is there a verb in the way that Googling is a verb?

What do you call it? Do you call it searching or is there a verb in the way that Googling is a verb?

in September, so just a few months ago, you published this manifesto on your website predicting the emergence of superintelligence in the next few years, or as you put it, and memorably, in the next few thousand days. Explain to us what superintelligence is. Tell us how we'll know if it's actually here and how it stands to change people's lives over the next decades.

in September, so just a few months ago, you published this manifesto on your website predicting the emergence of superintelligence in the next few years, or as you put it, and memorably, in the next few thousand days. Explain to us what superintelligence is. Tell us how we'll know if it's actually here and how it stands to change people's lives over the next decades.

in September, so just a few months ago, you published this manifesto on your website predicting the emergence of superintelligence in the next few years, or as you put it, and memorably, in the next few thousand days. Explain to us what superintelligence is. Tell us how we'll know if it's actually here and how it stands to change people's lives over the next decades.

Okay, well, Sam, one of the reasons we wanted to have this conversation with you today is not just because we want to hear about the ways that AI is going to transform the way that we live and work, but because you're in a very public battle right now with your original OpenAI co-founder, Elon Musk.

Okay, well, Sam, one of the reasons we wanted to have this conversation with you today is not just because we want to hear about the ways that AI is going to transform the way that we live and work, but because you're in a very public battle right now with your original OpenAI co-founder, Elon Musk.

Okay, well, Sam, one of the reasons we wanted to have this conversation with you today is not just because we want to hear about the ways that AI is going to transform the way that we live and work, but because you're in a very public battle right now with your original OpenAI co-founder, Elon Musk.