“very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs”
“I was consulted by people in Downing Street. I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea.”
“But in a statement on X, he said that he’s leaving OpenAI with the belief the company will build artificial general intelligence — AI capable of accomplishing any task a human can — that’s…”
“So firstly, we are an application layer company. We try to build a product that directly reaches every single user, every single person on the planet, giving them accurate, instant,…”
“I think compute is going to be the currency of the future. I think it’ll be maybe the most precious commodity in the world.”
“I expect that by the end of this decade, and possibly somewhat sooner than that, we will have quite capable systems that we look at and say, “Wow, that’s really remarkable.””
“The road to AGI should be a giant power struggle. I expect that to be the case.”
“I see the danger of this concentration of power through proprietary AI systems as a much bigger danger than everything else.”
“I believe that people are fundamentally good, and so if AI, especially open source AI can make them smarter, it just empowers the goodness in humans.”
“LLMs can do none of those or they can only do them in a very primitive way and they don’t really understand the physical world. They don’t really have persistent memory. They can’t really…”
““The foundation model side is going to be a base layer that's going to be important for all sorts of things,” Gil said, “but importance is different from where value accrues.””
““Enterprises within themselves have barely done anything, right,” he said, “they’ve just woken up.””
““The M&A market has been stymied,” he said, “so that really decreases the ability of certain companies to find their proper home where they could actually be more useful or impactful.””
“Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday. First of all nothing ‘happened’ and it’s not a result of any particular event, issue or drama (but please keep the conspiracy theories coming as…”
“I see no reason to make an analogy between AI and nuclear weapons. It is an insane analogy. One brings more intelligence and helps make better decisions, and the other blows up cities.…”
“Ng called the statement "unfortunate" and said the misleading message had distorted "thinking among the regulators."”
“I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins. That our solar system…”
“Yeah, the only way to get to that vision is with giant space stations. The planetary surfaces are just way too small.”
“But I’m talking about real invention, real lateral thinking that requires wandering, and you have to give yourself permission to wander.”
“In an email sent to staff, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said that Spotify was taking "substantial action to rightsize our costs," adding that the company took on too many employees over the years…”