In a recent interview, 1 Sam Altman mentioned a moment in 2015 when he heard tha

In a recent interview, 1 Sam Altman mentioned a moment in 2015 when he heard that he was a "con artist" when he started OpenAI and made AGI. In particular, what I heard from people in the artificial intelligence academia and industry seems to have hurt my heart.

Elon Musk often talks about how he feels about being called a "con artist." Elon Musk's heart was particularly broken when he was criticized by astronauts.

Jeffrey Hinton frequently discussed similar experiences. I can't seem to forget the criticism I received from people in the same academic world, that is, the artificial intelligence academia, which used to be very narrow.

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Jeffrey Hinton, of course, are people with a lot of great abilities, but among them, the real "whatever others say" mentality was great.

And even people like that get hurt a lot
Elon Musk made a decisive contribution to the foundation of openAI. It was him who brought Ilya Sutskeber to openAI, as well as investment. Ilya Sutskeber and her teacher Jeffrey Hinton can be seen as the history of deep learning itself.
Ilya Sutskeber believes in the emergence of general-purpose artificial intelligence (AGI). As she truly believes in the tremendous potential of AI, she knows better than anyone how dangerous it is potentially. Therefore, she has constantly warned against the safety of AI.

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It has been revealed that he is the main man in the coup to oust Sam Altman, and the message issued immediately after the coup is like this.
"We must avoid activating AI or AGI that harms humanity or over-focuses power, and conduct the research necessary to make AGI safe."
Elon Musk is in the same position as Ilya Sutskeber. Although he is more sincere about artificial intelligence than anyone else, he is constantly warning about potential dangers. It is not just a show that was signed to suspend AI development with Steve Wozniak.

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Elon offered to take over as CEO himself in 2018 because he thought openAI was behind Google.
But others objected and Elon left. Right after Elon left, the investment was cut off, so Sam Altman established a for-profit subsidiary called openAILP to attract investment from MS.
Musk wanted to make openAI the opposite organization of Google DeepMind. I thought that Google DeepMind should be basically a for-profit company and a closed source, conversely, a non-profit, open source. Google DeepMind and the newly established openAI have described it as an ant-elephant fight.

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Elon Musk's influence is that the openAI articles of association emphasized avoiding the use of AI or AGI that could harm humanity or excessively concentrate power. The truth of this coup is not yet known. In any case, the atmosphere at openAI's company paradoxically changes a little with the departure of Elon Musk.
As CEO, Sam Altman had to attract investment and expand services. The safety issue has to be put on the back burner. However, there must have been an atmosphere of opposition. Ilya Sutskeber was the head of this opposition.
With Sam Altman ousted, wouldn't openAI's relentless commercial expansion be a bit of a pace adjustment?

<Startup founders should be able to communicate clearly>

1. When a Y-combiner meets a startup, it usually asks two things first: 1) one is 'What are you making?' and 2) the other is 'Why are you making it?'

2. At this stage, we are looking for a founder who gives a clear and concise answer. This question is for evaluating an entrepreneur, but it is also a question for evaluating the person's ideas themselves.

3. These questions (for startup founders) are really important. First of all, an entrepreneur has to be someone who can think and communicate clearly. That way, you can be good at hiring, attracting investment, and selling later.

4. Ideas must also be clear, because ideas that are not clear cannot be widespread. Complex ideas (which cannot be explained with high clarity) are signals that there is something wrong already, in most cases.

5. To add another important question to this, "Who desperately needs that product?" The best situation is when the startup is the primary user. The startup is based on the product idea that you need. The second best situation is when the startup has a very good understanding of the primary user.

6. (And) When you start a startup, you first need to find a user and develop ideas by receiving feedback from that user.

7. (In other words) To evaluate an idea (properly), to make a great product, to make a great company, it's important to have a good understanding of the user!

8. (And as soon as you understand the user properly, the idea or direction of the company becomes clear. In other words, most unclear ideas are often because you don't know the customer.)

- Sam Altman in <Sam Altman's Startup Playbook>