#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
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In #419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI, Sam Altman 2 and the hosts mention Arthur C. Clarke and E.E. Cummings with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
And now let me leave you with some words from Arthur C. Clarke. 'It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.'
There’s this poet, E.E. Cummings, that mostly doesn’t use capitalization to say, 'Fuck you' to the system kind of thing.
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And now let me leave you with some words from Arthur C. Clarke. 'It may be that our role on this planet is not to wor…
There’s this poet, E.E. Cummings, that mostly doesn’t use capitalization to say, 'Fuck you' to the system kind of thi…
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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.
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And now let me leave you with some words from Arthur C. Clarke. 'It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.'
There’s this poet, E.E. Cummings, that mostly doesn’t use capitalization to say, 'Fuck you' to the system kind of thing.
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