I also wrote about this interview via a LinkedIn article: On AGI: Excerpts from Lex Fridman’s interview of Sam Altman with commentary. I appreciated reading you post, in part because you picked-up on some topics I overlooked. My own assessment is that Altman's outlook derives from a mixture of utopianism and the favorable position of OpenAI. Utopianism can be good if tethered to realism about existing conditions, but realism seemed lacking in many of Altman's statements.
Altman’s vision would be more admirable if the likelihood of achieving it w... (read more)
I also wrote about this interview via a LinkedIn article: On AGI: Excerpts from Lex Fridman’s interview of Sam Altman with commentary. I appreciated reading you post, in part because you picked-up on some topics I overlooked. My own assessment is that Altman's outlook derives from a mixture of utopianism and the favorable position of OpenAI. Utopianism can be good if tethered to realism about existing conditions, but realism seemed lacking in many of Altman's statements.
Altman’s vision would be more admirable if the likelihood of achieving it w... (read more)