The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Greg Brockman emerges in this interview as a quintessential Pioneer, someone who moves into uncharted territory without a map and trusts the process of discovery over pre-planned destinations. He describes OpenAI building entirely backwards from conventional startup logic, chasing technology with no clear application, shipping an API when no one could imagine paying for model outputs.
“So I think the Turing test in its real form isn't just about language, right? It's really about reasoning to really pass the Turing test, I should be able to teach calculus to whoever's on the other side and have it really understand calculus and be able to go and solve new calculus problems.”
“Yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, I think that we actually have, I think that's like a pretty important part of how we operate and how we have, even again, with designing the charter and designing OpenAILP in the first place, that there has been a lot of conversation with employees here and a lot of times where employees said, wait a second,…”
“I think it's unlikely that if we just scale GPT-2, that will have reasoning in the full-fledged way. And I think that there's the type signature is a little bit wrong, right? There's something we do that we call thinking, where we spend a lot of compute, like a variable amount of compute, to get to better answers.”
“And I think it's not a question that we have ready answers to how do you have a world where all of the different countries that we have, United States, China, Russia, and the hundreds of other countries out there are able to continue to not just operate in the way that they see fit, but the world that emerges in these, where you have thes…”
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