‘Some bad things’ may happen to you, but that’s a sacrifice Sam Altman is willing to make

6 days ago by David Gerard to c/techtakes

OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman was on Politico’s Decoded podcast yesterday, deflecting on a variety of topics. But there’s one amazing quote, which has been making a splash: [YouTube] I think on…

‘in the meantime, uh, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLoCXTSRJc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/... - podcast

time: 4 min 47 sec

Zephorah 21 points 6 days ago

Oligarchs wouldn’t be oligarchs without this essential attitude.

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o7___o7 7 points 5 days ago

That 2015 quote was a real stinger. Literally the future-tense version of "we destroyed the world but think of all the shareholder value we created along the way!"

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