Sam Altman on Express Conversations
Sam Altman Unfiltered: ChatGPT, AI Risks and What’s Coming Next, 40 Questions in 50 Minutes
Worth hearing for the concrete claim that OpenAI’s latest system solved seven previously unanswered research-math problems and for Altman’s unusually blunt correction of viral water-use claims. The jobs, skills, compute, and human-connection forecasts are engaging but substantially repeat themes elsewhere in the corpus.
last summer it was competing at the hardest mathematics competitions we had in the in the world and doing okay. And last week there was a new thing called first proof, where mathematicians put out ten research problems that weren't the solutions to which were not known, and took our best mathematicians the cutting edge of research new knowledge to figure out because it hadn't Ye've been shared and I believe our latest day I got seven of those problems right. So AI has gone from doing okay at high school math to being able to do new research level mathematics
Sam Altman discusses rapid AI capability gains, labor-market adaptation, computing infrastructure, energy use, and the importance of distributing power rather than concentrating superintelligence. He also addresses human relationships, corporate AI adoption, and his view that AGI is now close, with superintelligence potentially arriving sooner than he once expected.