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# TIME CEO of the Year 2023 | Sam Altman

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## Video: TIME CEO of the Year 2023 | Sam Altman

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_Published 2023-12-06. Sam Altman is TIME's 2023 CEO of the Year_


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## Transcript

definitely one of the confusing parts of this technology is just the overall power What everyone is somebody told me about iiai founder and CEO Sam almond testifying on Capitol Hill later. Today is going to be some questions about artificial intelligence in the rapid growth of Kathy PT. And the people are anxious about how it could change the way we live the most consequential technology. Our time artificial intelligence. Operating procedure is literally dehumanizing the workforce. And now he's back in the company's board of directors said it had lost confidence and Altman will now all but one of those board members is being replaced.

In a deep sense AI is the technology that the world that Society people have always wanted Syfy been talking about this for a very long time. I wake up Daddy's home will come home. So very powerful. We all know how to use that you can represent a lot of simple or complex Concepts in language and the new abilities that you give someone with an interface like this. I think clearly resonated So you can kind of date the beginning of 2023 really to November 2022, which is why not open a i released Chachi BT they developed in-house but it was the first to release it into the wild chat gvt was followed by gbt for which is significantly more powerful and capable than chat EBT.

It understands images and can express logical ideas about them. For example, it can tell us that if the strings in this image were cut the balloons would fly away Dead from the capabilities of going to come out in five years going to look like what the technology is going to come out in 10 years and we think it's very important to our mission to deploy things like Chachi PT so that people gain some experience a feeling of the capabilities and limitations of these systems. Now there are some criticisms of this one is that it creates local companies to be dangerously cut back on safety massage in order to move pasta.

I don't think it's helpful to just go to pretend like all with all certain to be fine. We can manage this. I am confident about that but we won't successfully manage it if we're not extremely Vigilant about the risks and if we don't talk very frankly about how bad they could go wrong is a very capable public speaker and public or the closest 2023. He's really been on what you could go to Victory Tour listening tour as well. He has been around the world. He's testified in front of a senate committee. He has his kind of unique ability to be many things to many people and that requires a combination of skills that requires understanding because I have a problem show up but it also requires being effectively a businessman.

politician when we first started we thought we could just be a non-profit but the cost of compute for these systems is quite intense. And so we thought really hard and design the structure where our nonprofit has full control and governance over a capped for-profit subsidiary that can make a certain amount of money for its investors and employees to let us do we need to do cuz these models are are extraordinarily expensive. Call Ben who was drawn comparisons to Tech giants. Like Steve Jobs was dismissed by the openai board Friday come true with further information about Wyatt Earp's application and Brockman could start up a new lab with a Microsoft and many of the employees that they would go and join Microsoft do what they did with it by the board into a very difficult position is Testament to the incredible power that he Wheels.

One of the questions is now is openai trending towards the future where it's a traditional tech company where it sells if they are services to customers and the incentive allows you to stay ahead of competitors and to what extent is it going back to its original reason? I have one that is willing to take decisions that might hurt its Financial incentives if it means developing a grassland messaging

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