The chaos inside OpenAI – Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and existential risk explained | Karen Hao

You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Journalist Karen Hao joins Big Think’s Editor-in-Chief, Robert Chapman-Smith, to discuss the recent events at OpenAI, including the ousting and reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman, as well as the ideological clashes regarding the development and release of powerful AI models like ChatGPT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background Context on OpenAI: Inside OpenAI’s chaos, Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic ► https://ift.tt/0Vi3vdn OpenAI profile, Ross Andersen, The Atlantic ► https://ift.tt/4y0GiOr OpenAI profile, Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review ► https://ift.tt/oWRf2dS Background Context on how AI works: How Large Language Models Work, Andrej Karpathy ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g What is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?, Stephen Wolfram ► https://ift.tt/LArndz2 Are Conscious Machines Possible?, Michael Wooldridge, Big Think ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf6zZfLat-8 There is no AI, Jaron Lanier ► https://ift.tt/xFigy78 Background Context on accelerating AI: Why AI will save the world, Marc Andreessen ► https://ift.tt/O1dEtWy My Techno-Optimism, Vitalik Buterin ► https://ift.tt/nJfeYIi Are AI Risks Overhyped?, Andrew Ng ► https://ift.tt/2ie8xMf To fear AI is to fear Newton and Einstein, Rohit Krishnan, Freethink ► https://ift.tt/zRqW7V2 Background Context on AI risk: AI risk does not equal AGI risk, Gary Marcus ► https://ift.tt/Q41zUT2 AI pioneer calls to stop AI before it's too late, Stuart Russell, Freethink ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOyljx7Pi7A Why the Godfather of AI fears what he's built, Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker ► https://ift.tt/GQY918C On the dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?, Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, et al ► https://youtu.be/N5c2X8vhfBE?si=xS3B5NCk5np-ghDD Books on AI: AI 2024: Ten Visions for Our Future, Kai-Fu Lee ► https://a.co/d/61BHsfW The Worlds I See, Dr. Fei-Fei Li ► https://ift.tt/jmtT9zf The Coming Wave, Mustafa Suleyman ► https://ift.tt/o8rR7jw Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil ► https://ift.tt/N92vE7i ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Karen Hao: Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering artificial intelligence, currently contributing to The Atlantic. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal focused on AI, China tech & society, and a senior editor at MIT Technology Review, where she wrote about the latest AI research & its social impacts. She was also a fellow with the Harvard Technology and Public Purpose program, the MIT Knight Science Journalism program, and the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability network.