[bbor]

You’re honestly convinced that he’s faking this level of futurism? I’m happy to see people call him wrong, maybe even defend him on a few point, but calling him dishonest on this central point seems irrational. Ditto for someone I personally have absolutely 0 respect for: Elon Musk. They are both honestly convinced that AI is incredibly important in the short-medium term, IMO - they just want to own the fix and be the hero.

[vundercind]

He might find the hype cycle itself entertaining and engaging, but I doubt he’s taking it seriously. I think he’d be worse at his job if he did.

[bloppe]

Is Sam Altman generally considered good at his job? OpenAI hasn't really come up with any groundbreaking breakthroughs (transformers came from Google and diffusion came from academia) and they definitely do not make a profit or have any concrete plan to become profitable. He's really good at raising gargantuan amounts of money, but that's not enough to be considered a good founder.

[nickfromseattle]

> Is Sam Altman generally considered good at his job?

No credit for popularizing the current generation of AI, kicking off $hundreds of billions in CapEx spends, and for more concrete achievements, leading the fastest company to hit 100m users / $1b ARR?

[lainga]

You call some numbers in an ACHS a concrete achievement? I was thinking more like a dam or a school or something...

[kulahan]

The question was if he's good at his job. How does building "like a dam or a school or something" have anything to do with that?

[vundercind]

> He's really good at raising gargantuan amounts of money

As far as what he does for others, that seems to be his entire job from what I can tell. Just going by what he visibly does.