We don't really understand how neural networks do what they do

“"I’m trying to convey that there is a really serious possibility of something happening. If, for example, you’re told there was a 10% possibility of a bus crashing, you wouldn’t get on the…”

“"The unique problem with AI is that if it goes wrong, if it takes over, you don’t get a second chance. We can’t say, ‘Well, we lost that time. Let’s rerun the game.’ It’s not like that."”

“"All this stuff just a few years ago was written off as complete fantasy. And it’s all happened."”

“As I said, I don't think it was bad for AI. And I think, on net, the world deserves to understand how the universe works. But I do have empathy for the method.”

“People were just throwing that at the hardest problems they could. And people didn't think the model was going to do these things.”

“Our first-party model APIs are now processing nearly 32 billion tokens per minute — 40% more than last quarter and more than four times what we processed a year ago.”