OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman explains AI's parabolic acceleration and AGI path in this insider account.
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Greg Brockman describes leaving Stripe to pursue a lifelong mission in AI, co-founding OpenAI after a pivotal dinner with Sam Altman where they concluded it was still possible to build a world-changing AI lab despite DeepMind’s dominance.
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Greg recounts OpenAI’s early formation, including convincing top researchers to join, defining a long-term technical roadmap focused on reinforcement learning and unsupervised learning, and using an offsite in Napa to crystallise the lab’s mission and momentum.
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Greg details the internal crisis in which leadership changes led to mass employee backlash, an attempted spin-out with Sam and close collaborators, a staff petition that crashed Google Docs, and ultimately a fragile but hopeful reconciliation, including mending a deeply strained relationship with co-founder Ilya.
"We’re going to be hitting a phase soon where the AI will also come up with its own research ideas and test those out, run experiments, and so I think that the speed of iteration and innovation is going to continue to increase as a result of what we’re producing.” - Greg Brockman