David Remnick
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Sam Altman is no great genius.
So what does he bring to the table that makes him such a transformative figure?
So it's a pitch to what?
He had been at something called Y Combinator, which was a kind of factory for technology and technology investments, a development place, if you will.
And then he begins, right, and he begins something called OpenAI, which is what, Ronan?
Well, who was involved in OpenAI in the beginning?
And then we learned very quickly, very, very quickly, that a lot of people around Sam Altman discovered that, well, they just don't believe him and they rebel against him and they think of him as a liar.
Why is that, Ronan?
What would have been the repercussions?
But this seems a little easy.
That was just an idea that we were considering selling this to Vladimir Putin.
And, you know.
It suggests a kind of amoralism, no?
Liar, I believe, is the word used.
So tell me what that experience was like.
You went to see him.
No, no, no.
What's he like?