Fireside Alpha
OpenAI's Sam Altman says if it took melting all the GPUs to ensure humanity's survival, it's an easy yes "I think there will be many places along the way where we have to say we are pausing, we're going to redirect our efforts into safety and alignment before we can go to that next level." "And this is what we've been doing for a long time. It has worked so far. I suspect it will continue to work." "I don't think we're ever personally going to get to the point where we have to say melt all the GPUs. But if we had to do something like that to ensure the continued existence of humanity, easy. Yes. I don't think it's gonna happen."
Fireside Alpha
Sam Altman reveals his concern that the industry's compute frenzy is showing its first signs of unsustainable silliness "I'm not worried about our compute buildout plans. I am worried about the world's compute buildout plans." "I think we are going to be able to use all of the compute very profitably that we are planning to build." "But I am seeing the first signs of what feels to me like unsustainable silliness, of random new Neocloud popping up, people claiming that they're going to build gigantic amounts of compute next year that I think they don't have the revenue to support or a buyer." "I definitely feel some fear about what the world is doing as a whole, although we feel very good about what we've committed to."