Credit where it is due: he corralled and inspired a difficult team. He oversaw the release of ChatGPT. His team wanted him back, because they believed he would make them rich. On that promise, he delivered.
Nobody has committed high crimes in this saga. But the lying has become endemic, from Altman to the culture. The situation screams for oversight, perhaps—most proximately—via consent decree.
This is why honesty is valued. If you look and sound squeaky clean, it's likely that you are honest and trustworthy. If you blatantly steal a famous actress' voice then lie about it, what else will you steal?
It’s behind the ‘you can’t con an honest man’ thing.
A lot of people want to take credit for it, but wasn't it started by a guy called Alec Radford ?
lol
This is were you're very unfortunately missing the point that no, he doesn't, he is after something bigger.
my optimistic hypothesis is he really wants to control AGI because he believes he can make a more efficient use of it than other people. he might even be right and that's what scares me, because I don't trust his measures of efficiency.
I'd rather not let my pessimistic fantasies run wild here.
[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-didnt-...
PG said the same- Never has he seen someone which such a capability to gain power.
He said Altman is extremely good at becoming powerful.[1] Did he say what you said also?
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...
Of course it's money. He is a billionaire. What do you think it's about?
2) in a post-AGI world money may be an obsolete concept
Money helps with all those, but will not passively do that stuff.
we talk dollars all day long but we haven't quantified power nearly as well