The Virus
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman7 Mar 2020
Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tragedy—hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19.
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Hard Startups
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman26 Feb 2020
The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.
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Sam Altmanby Sam Altman13 Jan 2020
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor.
How To Be Successful
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman24 Jan 2019
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important.
Reinforcement Learning Progress
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman25 Jun 2018
Today, OpenAI released a new result. We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat...
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US Digital Currency
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman10 May 2018
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far).
Productivity
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman10 Apr 2018
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place.
A Clarification
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman16 Dec 2017
I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to clarify it.
E Pur Si Muove
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman14 Dec 2017
Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me. I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.
The Merge
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman7 Dec 2017
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced...