OpenAI Drama, Sam Altman’s Quick Return and Protecting Humanity with Jag Sharma and Jason Kapadia - E59
It wouldn’t be AI if it didn’t come with some controversy…
The past fortnight has been a whirlwind of events surrounding OpenAI's recent drama. Jag Sharma and Jason Kapadia dissect the news of Sam Altman's journey – from a surprising firing to a reinstatement that turns heads.
Jag and Jason discuss the rapidly evolving world of AI, the role of the big players like Microsoft and the implications of Artificial General Intelligence on society.
This episode of Disconnected covers:
Open AI drama involving CEO Sam Altman's firing and reinstatement
Artificial generation intelligence advancements
AI tools and potential job replacement
AI's impact on jobs and society
Episode Highlights:
“On Friday, the 17th of November, CEO of open AI, Sam Altman joins a Google meet and is fired by the board for not being consistently candid with his communications with the board, out the door, complete surprise. And then this sent the Twitterverse the X verse into meltdown, there were tweets being sent out by various parties. There were various rumours out there in the Twitterverse had open aI had some kind of breakthrough in AI, that, you know, that Sam hadn't shared with the board” 0:23 - Jag Sharma
“Microsoft started detailing that they've actually committed and way more than $13 billion to open AI, and it's in their interest to make sure that this doesn't all go up in flames.” 6:10 - Jason Kapadia
“Microsoft is now becoming more and more powerful, in terms of AI, probably now going to become the most powerful AI company, and there are a lot of open source models. ” 17:57 - Jag Sharma
“Sam Altman was recently asked, you know, what kids today should be learning? And his answer was resilience, adaptability, creativity, and a high rate of learning.” 15:09 - Jag Sharma
“AI will become so smart that it's just gonna be way smarter than anything that we can kind of comprehend.” 16:53 - Jason Kapadia
“It's suddenly progressed, AI to the next level to AGI going from AI to AGI, we are all about to be super hit in a way that we can't comprehend. It's going to be a massive slap in the face in terms of, you know, a wake up call of a change in direction of humanity. And then I would totally believe that 300 million jobs could be replaced, probably including mine.” 21:24 - Jag Sharma
Links & references:
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Jag Sharma: