Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

March 18, 2024 · 2 h 2 min

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Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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Sora Website: https://openai.com/sora

GPT-4 Website: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

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OUTLINE:

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() – Introduction

() – OpenAI board saga

() – Ilya Sutskever

() – Elon Musk lawsuit

() – Sora

() – GPT-4

() – Memory & privacy

() – Q*

() – GPT-5

() – $7 trillion of compute

() – Google and Gemini

() – Leap to GPT-5

() – AGI

() – Aliens

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