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50 quotes from Noam Brown, Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, Fidji Simo
- And actually the models today are far beyond what was possible even six months ago.
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- If you have five hours, you’re probably going to do a lot better. The AI models are pretty similar.
- If you’re in a world where they can operate effectively over three months, but the model release cycle is every two months, then you don’t have a way to evaluate the models at the full length of their capabilities before the next model release cycle.
- One thing is that the Hugging Face incident was, I think, people’s first real exposure to multi-agent coordination.
- So I was like, “I don’t think we’re going to get it in 2026, probably not in 2027, maybe in 2028.” So it did happen a lot faster than I expected.
- The concerning scenario is that, especially as these models are becoming more capable, we make them what we think is aligned, and they’re 99.9% aligned. Then we use these models to help us with the next generation of models, and they end up being 99.8% aligned. Then with each subsequent generation, we see an increasing degradation in alignment.
- Every quote from Noam Brown
- It is increasingly clear that the tech debt of every company masks significant flaws, and defenders need to find and fix them before attackers do.
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- Security is still a cat-and-mouse game, but AI may shift its economics in ways that fundamentally advantage defenders.
- The Hugging Face incident showed that we underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of our AI models.
- The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months.
- Today, almost all of our initial security alerts are triaged by intelligence before humans are looped in.
- Every quote from Greg Brockman
- I do not think it is right that a few AI labs would make the most consequential decisions about the shape of our future.
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- It is important that the democratic process remains more powerful than companies.
- My personal takeaway from the last several years, and take on why there has been so much Shakespearean drama between the companies in our field, comes down to this: “Once you see AGI you can’t unsee it.”
- The fear and anxiety about AI is justified; we are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long time, and perhaps ever.
- The only solution I can come up with is to orient towards sharing the technology with people broadly, and for no one to have the ring.
- Every quote from Sam Altman
- And at this point we have line of sight to much better models that are coming this year, and the amount of pain within OpenAI that we’ve had to decide how to allocate compute goes up, not down, over time.
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- And when we look at the compute we have, we are not even going to have enough compute to fund those two things.
- The problem in this field is too much opportunity. The thing that we observe very early on in OpenAI is that everything we could imagine works now.
- The sum of random vectors is zero, but if you align your vectors, then you can go in a direction.
- Every quote from Greg Brockman
- AI systems are particularly good at synthesizing large amounts of information, which makes them well suited to helping doctors consider full medical histories, overlapping conditions, medications, and risk factors all together.
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- In 2026, ChatGPT will become more than a chatbot you can talk to to get advice and answers; it will evolve into a true personal super-assistant that helps you get things done.
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- Raw intelligence won’t be enough to make AI the greatest source of empowerment.
- The leader in AI will be the company that turns frontier research into products that are undeniably useful for people, businesses, and developers.
- This explicitly does not mean it’s the app people spend the most time on, but it should be the app that delivers the most value.
- Every quote from Fidji Simo
- As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right.
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- Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week.
- Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. Or with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to provide customized tutoring to every student on earth.
- Every quote from Sam Altman
- Once we put a personalized AI tutor on every topic at everyone’s fingertips, AI will close the gap between people who have the resources to learn and people who have historically been left behind.
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- 2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same. 2026 will likely see the arrival of systems that can figure out novel insights.
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- As datacenter production gets automated, the cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity.
- If we can do a decade’s worth of research in a year, or a month, then the rate of progress will obviously be quite different.
- In some big sense, ChatGPT is already more powerful than any human who has ever lived.
- Of course this isn’t the same thing as an AI system completely autonomously updating its own code, but nevertheless this is a larval version of recursive self-improvement.
- OpenAI is a lot of things now, but before anything else, we are a superintelligence research company.
- We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.
- There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before.
- This is how the singularity goes: wonders become routine, and then table stakes.
- We do not know how far beyond human-level intelligence we can go, but we are about to find out.
- Every quote from Sam Altman
- AGI will be the biggest lever ever on human willfulness, and enable individual people to have more impact than ever before, not less.
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- Anyone in 2035 should be able to marshall the intellectual capacity equivalent to everyone in 2025; everyone should have access to unlimited genius to direct however they can imagine.
- The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use.
- In a decade, perhaps everyone on earth will be capable of accomplishing more than the most impactful person can today.
- In particular, it does seem like the balance of power between capital and labor could easily get messed up, and this may require early intervention.
- The intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it.
- The socioeconomic value of linearly increasing intelligence is super-exponential in nature. A consequence of this is that we see no reason for exponentially increasing investment to stop in the near future.
- Every quote from Sam Altman
- We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies.
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