I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco
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Summary
In a wide-ranging interview with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the controversy surrounding the recent launch of GPT-4 is addressed, with Altman admitting that the company “screwed up” elements of the rollout.
He also revealed that OpenAI is plotting a major expansion, including an interest in buying Chrome if the US government forces Google to sell it, and plans to raise trillions of dollars to build data centres.
Elsewhere, OpenAI is planning to fund a brain-computer interface rival to Elon Musk’s Neuralink start-up, with Altman stating, “I would like to be able to think something and have ChatGPT respond to it.”
In other developments, Anthropic has added new OpenAI researchers, while Meta’s former head of AI research, Joelle Pineau, has joined Cohere as chief AI officer.