@rohanpaul_ai: Sam Altman talks about how in 2014, the so-called "elderly" in the field thought the idea of OpenAI is baseless. "In 20…
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Sam Altman recalls how in 2014, the concept of OpenAI was widely dismissed by established figures in the field, but the team persisted in their goal to create an AGI lab.
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Sam Altman talks about how in 2014, the so-called “elderly” in the field thought the idea of OpenAI is baseless.
“In 2014, we started saying, “You know, we should really do something about this.” It was incredibly unpopular at the time. We had said we want to make an AGI lab, https://t.co/wLaUNQ5FaA
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