Sam Altman’s head is spinning, constantly recording huge advances in AI that predict a future where our biggest, and sometimes most personal, problems could be solved and our wildest dreams come true thanks to AI.
This week, in a long, insightful chat with former CNN journalist and current Mostly Human podcast host Laurie Segall, the OpenAI CEO talked about Sora’s demise (he needed the calculation because something “very big and important is about to happen”), signing up for the US War Department after Anthropic balked (“it’s very important for governments to be more powerful”). [than AI]”), and some notable advances in AI.
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Altman, who complained that OpenAI’s Codex AI coding agent model isn’t yet smart enough to help him come up with new ideas for side projects, shared the surprising story of someone who used the platform to build a billion-dollar company, all by himself.
Segall asked about the possibility that a single entrepreneur could one day use these tools to build the next billion-dollar company.
“I think that has happened,” said Altman, who was not at liberty to offer any details such as the businessman’s name, business or what he does.
“As far as I know, it’s a legitimate billion-dollar sole proprietorship. I haven’t looked at the financials, but I think it just happened,” Altman added.
The way this person built it might be more interesting. Everything was done with Codex.
Altman called the founder “One of the top Codex users of all time” and “incredibly productive in a way no person could have been.”
Altman was so impressed that he hired the businessman.
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What these two stories have in common is a couple of obsessive people who are pushing AI to the limits.
As someone on LinkedIn noted on Conyngham’s page, “Paul didn’t have a biology degree. He had 17 years of pattern recognition, a dying dog he loved, and the willingness to treat an impossible problem as a data problem.”
In the case of the entrepreneur, it doesn’t seem like they dropped a short message on Codex and then left while he built and ran a company. Most of the best work that comes out of AI is collaborative, with collaboration between you and the AI.
The directions are simply a starting point. The conversation and refinement of those requests is what gets the work done and gets you and the AI to a final product.
In the case of Rosie the dog, the mRNA vaccine was not developed or administered by AI. ChatGPT and the other platforms were like very intelligent research assistants, digging through the vast amount of data on dog cancer research to find meaningful information and make recommendations. Conyngham figured out what to do with it and then turned to human experts to make it happen.
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