Exclusive Interview: OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT And How Artificial General Intelligence Can ‘Break Capitalism’

Exclusive Interview: OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT And How Artificial General Intelligence Can ‘Break Capitalism’

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has been spending plenty of time at Microsoft recently; he posed for this photo on their Redmond, Wash. campus in 2019.IAN C. BATES/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX In a rare interview, OpenAI’s CEO talks about AI model ChatGPT, artificial general intelligence and Google Search. As CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman captains the buzziest — and most scrutinized — startup in the fast-growing generative AI category, the subject of a recent feature story in the February issue of Forbes....

Published in forbes.com · by Alex Konrad, Kenrick Cai · 12 min read · July 28, 2023
Six Things You Didn’t Know About ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion And The Future Of Generative AI

Six Things You Didn’t Know About ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion And The Future Of Generative AI

Today’s AI-based image generators aren’t self-aware. But Forbes asked Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s DALL-E—to attempt to visualize themselves, using an identical prompt: “an artistic portrait of the artificial intelligence called X, created by the artificial intelligence X.” These were the authors’ favorites of the resulting self-portrait attempts. DreamStudio/DALL-E Artificial intelligence will be 2023’s hottest topic, and one subject to debate. That’s what Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates told Forbes in an exclusive conversation about the suddenly exploding field....

Published in forbes.com · by Alex Konrad, Kenrick Cai · 6 min read · July 25, 2023
Inside ChatGPT’s Breakout Moment And The Race To Put AI To Work

Inside ChatGPT’s Breakout Moment And The Race To Put AI To Work

FUTURE SHOCK | ChatGPT’s popularity was unexpected inside the company. “None of us were that enamored by it,” says OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman. “None of us were like, ‘This is really useful.’ ” Ethan Pines for Forbes In an unremarkable conference room inside OpenAI’s office, insulated from the mid-January rain pelting San Francisco, company president Greg Brockman surveys the “energy levels” of the team overseeing the company’s new artificial intelligence model, ChatGPT....

Published in forbes.com · by Alex Konrad, Kenrick Cai · 16 min read · July 15, 2023
‘AI First’ To Last: How Google Fell Behind In The AI Boom

‘AI First’ To Last: How Google Fell Behind In The AI Boom

Illustration by Gracelynn Wan for Forbes In 2016, a few months after becoming CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai made a sweeping proclamation: Google, whose name had become synonymous with search, would now be an “AI-first” company. Announced at Google’s massive I/O developer conference, it was his first major order of business after taking the company reins. What AI-first meant, exactly, was murky, but the stakes were not. Two years earlier, Amazon had blindsided Google by releasing its voice assistant Alexa....

Published in forbes.com · by Richard Nieva, Alex Konrad, Kenrick Cai · 12 min read · July 15, 2023