Sam Altman Quotes

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Don't spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don't like, and cut negative people out of your life. Negativity is really bad. Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

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We face serious risk. We face existential risk. The challenge that the world has is how we're going to manage those risks and make sure we still get to enjoy those tremendous benefits. No one wants to destroy the world.

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I think we will get the hallucination problem to a much, much better place. I think it will take us a year and a half, two years. Something like that. But at that point we won't still talk about these. There's a balance between creativity and perfect accuracy, and the model will need to learn when you want one or the other.
On Chatbot's hallucination

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I probably trust the answers that come out of ChatGPT the least of anybody on Earth.

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Do new things often. This seems to be really important. Not only does doing new things seem to slow down the perception of time, increase happiness, and keep life interesting, but it seems to prevent people from calcifying in the ways that they think. Aim to do something big, new, and risky every year in your personal and professional life.

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This is the most interesting year in human history, except for all future years.

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At the time of GPT-3, people were like "this is amazing, this is [a] marvel of technology," [...] and it was. But now we have GPT-4, and you look at GPT-3 and you're like "that's unimaginably horrible."

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People want very different things out of GPT-4: different styles, different sets of assumptions. We'll make all that possible, and then also the ability to have it use your own data. The ability to know about you, your email, your calendar, how you like appointments booked, connected to other outside data sources, all of that.

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Most things are ok in moderation. Almost nothing is ok in extreme amounts.

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Do we make sure AI is a tool that has proper safeguards as it gets really powerful?

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Life is not a dress rehearsal — this is probably it. Make it count. Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled — few people get remembered hundreds of years after they die anyway.

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Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.

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Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful. In almost all ways, having enough money so that you don't stress about paying rent does more to change your well-being than having enough money to buy your own jet.

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The stuff that we're seeing now is very exciting and wonderful, but I think it's worth always putting it in context of this technology that, at least for the next five or ten years, will be on a very steep improvement curve. These are the stupidest the models will ever be.

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Coding is probably the single area from a productivity gain we're most excited about today. It's massively deployed and at scaled usage, at this point.

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I think AGI will be the best tool humanity has yet created. With it, we will be able to solve all sorts of problems. We'll be able to express ourselves in new creative ways. We'll make just incredible things for each other, for ourselves, for the world, for kind of this unfolding human story. And it's new, and anything new comes with change and change is not always all easy.

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Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

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