Q&A with Sam Altman on the path to OpenAI, its origin story, building a consumer tech company, ads, competition, hallucinations, regulation, and the AI outlook
This Stratechery interview is technically another installment of the Stratechery Founder series; OpenAI is a startup …
I think ads in ChatGPT are inevitable, and the affiliate model that Altman describes later in the interview won't work because 1) the DeepResearch use case is too niche and 2) consumers will perceive it as inimical to their interests. Note that I believe the company can probably
Two @sama quotes I think about often from the Senate Judiciary Committee's AI hearing in 2023: The 1st answer is when @ossoff expressed concern about tech companies maximizing engagement. The 2nd is when @CoryBooker asked if OpenAI would ever consider ads. [image]
Sam Altman; “My favorite historical analog is the transistor for what AGI is going to be like. There's going to be a lot of it, it's going to diffuse into everything, it's going to be cheap, it's an emerging property of physics and it on its own will not be a differentiator.” [im…