Notes From Sam Altman’s Interview With Andrew Ross Sorkin

Forbes December 5, 2024
John Werner

I watched the interview with Sam Altman by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times. It seemed like a fundamental way station in the story that people are telling about large language models and related technology.

Here are some of the main points that stood out to me about the journey, and how it has informed not just business, but society as a whole.

First of all, Sorkin asked Altman about the trajectory of the technology itself, and he brought this up early on the interview. Why, he asked, did people get suddenly more interested when ChatGPT first came out?

In response Altman talked about what he called the “chanciness” of change, and suggested that one reason for massive...

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