Ep 9: Open AI VP of Product Peter Welinder on OpenAI’s Strategy and AI’s Future
Jacob sits down with OpenAI VP of Product & Partnerships Peter Welinder and guest host Rob Toews (Radical VC Partner) to discuss OpenAI’s strategy, how they think about what they will/won’t build, the future of open source models and when we’ll reach AGI.
Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron · Rob Toews, Peter Welinder, Jacob Effron
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Show Notes
Jacob sits down with OpenAI VP of Product & Partnerships Peter Welinder and guest host Rob Toews (Radical VC Partner) to discuss OpenAI’s strategy, how they think about what they will/won’t build, the future of open source models and when we’ll reach AGI.
(00:00) - intro
(00:42) - where is the value in AI?
(07:51) - how OpenAI prioritizes projects
(14:15) - open-source AI
(25:49) - gaps in AI
(29:36) - risks and downsides
(34:02) - when will we reach super-intellegence?
(40:40) - super-intellegence safety
(43:37) - how OpenAI uses ChatGPT
With your co-hosts:
@jasoncwarner - Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical
@ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)
@patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health
@jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health