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Posted: Wed May 28, 2025 4:32 am
the non-obvious downside of eradicating hallucinations
government oversight and what lawmakers get wrong, and right, about ai
what a dramatically more capable gpt looks like
what movie got it (mostly) right about ai
the conversation has been edited for clarity and conciseness.
Marc benioff: you’ve traveled the world recently meeting with business and government leaders about ai. What was your biggest surprise seeing what others are doing with generative ai?
Sam altman: the level of enthusiasm, hopefulness, and excitement around the world, of course balanced with making sure we successfully address the potential downsides. At first i thought maybe [gen ai] is just a tech, silicon valley phenomenon, but to see what people all around the world are doing with the technology and how they’ve incorporated it into their lives and how interested and hopeful they were was really cool.
What country stood out to you as being a great leader in artificial intelligence?
That was another positive surprise. The quality of work happening everywhere was really something. I think the u.s. Will be the greatest leader in artificial intelligence. We’re blessed to have so many things in our favor but america phone number list this will be a global effort.
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what’s been your biggest surprise over the last seven to eight years at openai?
Gpt-4 has only been out for six months, which is a good reminder about how fast things have been happening. The biggest surprise is just that it’s all working. When we got [openai] together in early 2016 and said ‘alright, we’re going to build artificial general intelligence’ well, that’s great but then you meet cold, hard reality. We had a lot of stuff to figure out. In this case it was particularly hard. We had conviction and a path laid out by my co-founder and our chief scientist. The consensus in the world was very much, [that] this is not going to work. Through the effort of a lot of enormously talented people, it did.
government oversight and what lawmakers get wrong, and right, about ai
what a dramatically more capable gpt looks like
what movie got it (mostly) right about ai
the conversation has been edited for clarity and conciseness.
Marc benioff: you’ve traveled the world recently meeting with business and government leaders about ai. What was your biggest surprise seeing what others are doing with generative ai?
Sam altman: the level of enthusiasm, hopefulness, and excitement around the world, of course balanced with making sure we successfully address the potential downsides. At first i thought maybe [gen ai] is just a tech, silicon valley phenomenon, but to see what people all around the world are doing with the technology and how they’ve incorporated it into their lives and how interested and hopeful they were was really cool.
What country stood out to you as being a great leader in artificial intelligence?
That was another positive surprise. The quality of work happening everywhere was really something. I think the u.s. Will be the greatest leader in artificial intelligence. We’re blessed to have so many things in our favor but america phone number list this will be a global effort.
Need help with your generative ai strategy?
Whether you’re just starting out with ai or already innovating, this guide is your roadmap to delivering a trusted program blending data, ai and crm. The goal? Helping your teams focus on high-value tasks and build stronger customer relationships.
Get the guide
what’s been your biggest surprise over the last seven to eight years at openai?
Gpt-4 has only been out for six months, which is a good reminder about how fast things have been happening. The biggest surprise is just that it’s all working. When we got [openai] together in early 2016 and said ‘alright, we’re going to build artificial general intelligence’ well, that’s great but then you meet cold, hard reality. We had a lot of stuff to figure out. In this case it was particularly hard. We had conviction and a path laid out by my co-founder and our chief scientist. The consensus in the world was very much, [that] this is not going to work. Through the effort of a lot of enormously talented people, it did.