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Sam Altman

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

That's totally true. You know, you mentioned earlier that I'm like blocking out the November stuff.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Well, I mean, I think it was a very traumatic thing and it did immobilize me for a long period of time. Like definitely the hardest thing Like the hardest work that I've had to do was just like keep working that period because I had to like, you know, try to come back in here and put the pieces together while I was just like in sort of shock and pain. And, you know, nobody really cares about that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Well, I mean, I think it was a very traumatic thing and it did immobilize me for a long period of time. Like definitely the hardest thing Like the hardest work that I've had to do was just like keep working that period because I had to like, you know, try to come back in here and put the pieces together while I was just like in sort of shock and pain. And, you know, nobody really cares about that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Well, I mean, I think it was a very traumatic thing and it did immobilize me for a long period of time. Like definitely the hardest thing Like the hardest work that I've had to do was just like keep working that period because I had to like, you know, try to come back in here and put the pieces together while I was just like in sort of shock and pain. And, you know, nobody really cares about that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I mean, the team gave me a pass and I was not working on my normal level, but there was a period where I was just like, It was really hard to have to do both. But I kind of woke up one morning and I was like, this was a horrible thing that happened to me. I think I could just feel like a victim forever.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I mean, the team gave me a pass and I was not working on my normal level, but there was a period where I was just like, It was really hard to have to do both. But I kind of woke up one morning and I was like, this was a horrible thing that happened to me. I think I could just feel like a victim forever.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I mean, the team gave me a pass and I was not working on my normal level, but there was a period where I was just like, It was really hard to have to do both. But I kind of woke up one morning and I was like, this was a horrible thing that happened to me. I think I could just feel like a victim forever.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Or I can say this is like the most important work I'll ever touch in my life and I need to get back to it. And it doesn't mean that I've repressed it because sometimes I like wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. But I do feel like an obligation to keep moving forward.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Or I can say this is like the most important work I'll ever touch in my life and I need to get back to it. And it doesn't mean that I've repressed it because sometimes I like wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. But I do feel like an obligation to keep moving forward.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Or I can say this is like the most important work I'll ever touch in my life and I need to get back to it. And it doesn't mean that I've repressed it because sometimes I like wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. But I do feel like an obligation to keep moving forward.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I can imagine many ways to implement that. I think that's less important than the question you were getting at, which is, do we need a way to do a slower kind of thinking where the answer doesn't have to get like, you know, it's like, I guess like spiritually, you could say that you want an AI to be able to think harder about a harder problem and answer more quickly about an easier problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I can imagine many ways to implement that. I think that's less important than the question you were getting at, which is, do we need a way to do a slower kind of thinking where the answer doesn't have to get like, you know, it's like, I guess like spiritually, you could say that you want an AI to be able to think harder about a harder problem and answer more quickly about an easier problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I can imagine many ways to implement that. I think that's less important than the question you were getting at, which is, do we need a way to do a slower kind of thinking where the answer doesn't have to get like, you know, it's like, I guess like spiritually, you could say that you want an AI to be able to think harder about a harder problem and answer more quickly about an easier problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

And I think that will be important.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

And I think that will be important.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

And I think that will be important.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

It seems to me like you want to be able to allocate more compute to harder problems. Like, it seems to me that a system knowing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

It seems to me like you want to be able to allocate more compute to harder problems. Like, it seems to me that a system knowing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

It seems to me like you want to be able to allocate more compute to harder problems. Like, it seems to me that a system knowing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I mean, there's a lot of things that you could imagine working.