Dec 5, 2023
John and Glen dive into the mysterious, fascinating and perhaps
still ongoing Open AI governance saga, dissecting the role of
concepts like effective altruism, artificial general intelligence,
reinforcement learning and board responsibility (There’s a credit
union tie-in, we promise.). Also, John’s special offer to Microsoft
CEO Satya Nadella.
Links related to this episode:
Glen’s blog post detailing more of the board room background:
https://www.big-fintech.com/Media?p=detangling-openais-palace-intrigue
Wikipedia’s Open AI entry (note the 2015-19 history): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
Harvard Business Review’s postmortem
on Open AI’s “failed governance model”:
https://hbr.org/2023/11/openais-failed-experiment-in-governance
The Australia Financial Review’s profile of the Open AI board that
dismissed Sam Altman: https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/firing-squad-the-openai-board-members-who-sacked-sam-altman-20231123-p5emcd
Open AI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever’s TED Talk on Artificial
General Intelligence, delivered 3-4 weeks before the management
meltdown:
https://www.ted.com/talks/ilya_sutskever_the_exciting_perilous_journey_toward_agi
Hard Fork’s interview with Sam Altman two days before he was fired:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdXr1PHFPo
Have I Been Trained?- a site flagging unauthorized use of
proprietary material for AI training: https://haveibeentrained.com/
Replay of our CU Town Hall where John takes stock of the fintech
advancements of the past decade- and compare them to his 2015
predictions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEDal_gbFxY
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