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OpenAI Co-Founder: AI Goes Parabolic! Here's What's Next | Greg Brockman
April 22, 20261h 12m · 13,712 words
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The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder of OpenAI. This is the most detailed first-person account he has given of the 72 hours after Sam Altman was fired, how OpenAI started, and the future. Greg explains how the original Napa offsite produced the three-step technical plan OpenAI has followed for a decade and the real reason OpenAI had to abandon its pure nonprofit structure.
Highlighted moments
Number one, solve reinforcement learning. Number two, solve unsupervised learning. And number three was gradually learn more complicated, in quotes, things.
“if you really can predict the next word out of Einstein's mouth, you are at least as smart as Einstein.”
“we made an early decision to say we want to avoid any temptation to train these chain of thoughts to look favorable, to look like something you could present to a user.”
“across multiple generations of this technology, the people who seem to be getting the most benefit out of it are the people who did it for the previous one, right?”
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