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Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC

Connie LoizosCited 3× on HN, 2023-2025
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A 2019 extended interview in which Connie Loizos talks with Sam Altman about his work, OpenAI's capped-profit structure, its mission toward safe artificial general intelligence, and criticisms the organization faces.

It is mostly cited critically or jokingly, as a source for Altman's early statements about AGI and investor promises that commenters later quote back at him.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@aleph_minus_one2025 · in “It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change”

OpenAI has no idea what is the cause of the problem, but once OpenAI has built a general intelligent system, they will ask it for a way to fix this bug. (for those who don't get the reference: ▶ this video (31:26 - 32:13)).

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@almatabata2024 · in “It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word”

Funnily I came across an interview from around 5 years ago where he straight up admitted that he had no clue how to generate a return on investment back then (see ▶ this video ) "We have no current plans to make revenue." "We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue." "We have made a soft promise to investors that once we've built a general intelligence system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you." The fact he has no clue how to generate revenue with an AGI without asking it, shows his lack of imagination.

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@shrimpx2023 · in “Language models can explain neurons in language models”

Seems like OpenAI is grasping at straws trying to make GPT "go meta". Reminds me of this Sam Altman quote from 2019: "We have made a soft promise to investors that once we build this sort-of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return." ▶ this video

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