AI is often portrayed as being all about technology. But it is also about money and control. Because those who control AI, may control the world.
In the AI world, there are two names that keep coming up: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and its CEO, Sam Altman.
Who is Sam Altman? How did his tiny company leapfrog the tech giants and win the scramble for control of AI? And what are Altman's plans for the future?
Guests:
Rewon Child, researcher at Inflection AI, formerly with OpenAI
Jeremy Howard, Australian entrepreneur and deep learning researcher who contributed to the development of large language models
Margaret O'Mara, historian of Silicon Valley and professor at the University of Washington
Richard Mathenge, founder of the first union for content moderators in Africa