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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

You know, one thing I've been using it for more recently is sort of like a brainstorming partner.

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

You know, one thing I've been using it for more recently is sort of like a brainstorming partner.

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

You know, one thing I've been using it for more recently is sort of like a brainstorming partner.

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

And there's a glimmer of something amazing in there. I don't think it gets, you know, when people talk about it, what it does, they're like, oh, it helps me code more productively. It helps me write more faster and better. It helps me, you know, translate from this language to another. All these like amazing things, but. There's something about the creative brainstorming partner.

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

And there's a glimmer of something amazing in there. I don't think it gets, you know, when people talk about it, what it does, they're like, oh, it helps me code more productively. It helps me write more faster and better. It helps me, you know, translate from this language to another. All these like amazing things, but. There's something about the creative brainstorming partner.

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

And there's a glimmer of something amazing in there. I don't think it gets, you know, when people talk about it, what it does, they're like, oh, it helps me code more productively. It helps me write more faster and better. It helps me, you know, translate from this language to another. All these like amazing things, but. There's something about the creative brainstorming partner.

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

I need to come up with a name for this thing. I need to think about this problem in a different way. I'm not sure what to do here. That I think gives a glimpse of something I hope to see more of. One of the other things that you can see a very small glimpse of is

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

I need to come up with a name for this thing. I need to think about this problem in a different way. I'm not sure what to do here. That I think gives a glimpse of something I hope to see more of. One of the other things that you can see a very small glimpse of is

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

I need to come up with a name for this thing. I need to think about this problem in a different way. I'm not sure what to do here. That I think gives a glimpse of something I hope to see more of. One of the other things that you can see a very small glimpse of is

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

when I can help on longer horizon tasks, you know, break down something into multiple steps, maybe like execute some of those steps, search the internet, write code, whatever, put that together. When that works, which is not very often, it's like very magical.

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

when I can help on longer horizon tasks, you know, break down something into multiple steps, maybe like execute some of those steps, search the internet, write code, whatever, put that together. When that works, which is not very often, it's like very magical.

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

when I can help on longer horizon tasks, you know, break down something into multiple steps, maybe like execute some of those steps, search the internet, write code, whatever, put that together. When that works, which is not very often, it's like very magical.

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

It works a lot for me. What do you mean? Uh, iterative back and forth with a human, it can get more often when it can go do like a 10 step problem on its own. Oh, it doesn't work for that too often. Sometimes. At multiple layers of abstraction, or do you mean just sequential? Both like, you know, to break it down and then do things that different layers of abstraction and put them together.

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

It works a lot for me. What do you mean? Uh, iterative back and forth with a human, it can get more often when it can go do like a 10 step problem on its own. Oh, it doesn't work for that too often. Sometimes. At multiple layers of abstraction, or do you mean just sequential? Both like, you know, to break it down and then do things that different layers of abstraction and put them together.

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

It works a lot for me. What do you mean? Uh, iterative back and forth with a human, it can get more often when it can go do like a 10 step problem on its own. Oh, it doesn't work for that too often. Sometimes. At multiple layers of abstraction, or do you mean just sequential? Both like, you know, to break it down and then do things that different layers of abstraction and put them together.

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

Look, I don't want to, I don't want to like downplay the accomplishment of GPT-4. Um, But I don't want to overstate it either. And I think this point that we are on an exponential curve, we will look back relatively soon at GPT-4 like we look back at GPT-3 now.

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

Look, I don't want to, I don't want to like downplay the accomplishment of GPT-4. Um, But I don't want to overstate it either. And I think this point that we are on an exponential curve, we will look back relatively soon at GPT-4 like we look back at GPT-3 now.

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

Look, I don't want to, I don't want to like downplay the accomplishment of GPT-4. Um, But I don't want to overstate it either. And I think this point that we are on an exponential curve, we will look back relatively soon at GPT-4 like we look back at GPT-3 now.

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

And in that sense, I do think it'll be a moment where a lot of the world went from not believing to believing. That was more about the ChatGPT interface than the... And by the interface and product, I also mean the post-training of the model and how we tune it to be helpful to you and how to use it, then the underlying model itself.

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

And in that sense, I do think it'll be a moment where a lot of the world went from not believing to believing. That was more about the ChatGPT interface than the... And by the interface and product, I also mean the post-training of the model and how we tune it to be helpful to you and how to use it, then the underlying model itself.