Greg Brockman—OpenAI cofounder and Stripe's first engineer—joins John Collison to talk about research-driven product development, an early moment he thought OpenAI was doomed, S curves in AI advancement, and energy bottlenecks.
Timestamps:
02:51 - Was OpenAI the first company to take the scaling hypothesis seriously?
04:53 - Lessons from Dota about deep learning
08:08 - What is a good new Turing test?
08:57 - Personalization in AI
09:57 - Research-driven product development
10:26 - An early moment OpenAI felt doomed
15:01 - OS limits on AI product development
17:59 - When will AI make novel advancements in math or science?
20:03 - Energy bottlenecks
22:30 - S curves in AI advancement
24:00 - AI coding
26:25 - Refactoring as a killer AI use case
27:26 - How OpenAI decides what products to built
28:53 - Growing up in North Dakota
30:17 - How far away is AGI?
