Sam Altman has his head turned forward, constantly observing huge advances in AI that predict a future in which our biggest, and sometimes most personal, problems could be solved and our wildest dreams realized thanks to AI.
This week, in a lengthy and revealing conversation with Laurie Segall, former CNN reporter and current host of the Mostly Human podcast, the OpenAI CEO talked about Sora’s demise (he needed the math because something “very big and important is about to happen”), registering with the US War Department after Anthropic’s hesitation (“very important that governments be more powerful”). [than AI]”), and some remarkable advances in AI.
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Altman, who has complained that OpenAI’s Codex AI coding agent model isn’t yet smart enough to help him come up with new side project ideas, shared the surprising story of someone who used the platform to build a billion-dollar company — all by himself.
Segall wondered about the possibility that an individual entrepreneur could one day use these tools to build the next billion-dollar company.
“I believe this happened,” said Altman, who was not at liberty to provide details such as the contractor’s name, the company or what it does.
“As far as I know, this is a legitimate, one-person, billion-dollar company. I didn’t like looking at the financials, but I think it just happened,” Altman added.
How this person built it might be more interesting. Everything was done with the Codex.
Altman called the founder “one of the premier Codex users of all time” and “incredibly productive in a way no person could have been.”
Altman was so impressed that he hired the contractor.
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What these two stories have in common is a couple of obsessive people who push the AI to its limits.
As someone noted on LinkedIn on Conyngham’s page, “Paul didn’t have a degree in biology. He had 17 years of pattern recognition, a dying dog he loved, and the drive to treat an impossible problem like a data problem.”
In the entrepreneur’s case, it doesn’t appear that he issued a brief prompt in the Codex and then walked away while the entrepreneur built and ran a business. Most of the best work from AI is collaborative, with the collaboration between you and the AI.
The prompts are just a starting point. The conversation and refinement of these requests is what gets the work done and leads you and the AI toward a final product.
In the case of Rosie the dog, the mRNA vaccine was not developed and administered by AI. ChatGPT and the other platforms were like highly intelligent research assistants, digging through the masses of dog cancer research data 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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