Unsupervised Learning

Ep 9: Open AI VP of Product Peter Welinder on OpenAI’s Strategy and AI’s Future

Episode Summary

Jacob sits down with OpenAI VP of Product & Partnerships Peter Welinder and guest host Rob Toews (Radical VC Partner) to discuss OpenAI’s strategy, how they think about what they will/won’t build, the future of open source models and when we’ll reach AGI.

Episode Notes

Jacob sits down with OpenAI VP of Product & Partnerships Peter Welinder and guest host Rob Toews (Radical VC Partner) to discuss OpenAI’s strategy, how they think about what they will/won’t build, the future of open source models and when we’ll reach AGI. 

(00:00) - intro

(00:42) - where is the value in AI?

(07:51) - how OpenAI prioritizes projects

(14:15) - open-source AI

(25:49) - gaps in AI

(29:36) - risks and downsides

(34:02) - when will we reach super-intellegence?

(40:40) - super-intellegence safety

(43:37) - how OpenAI uses ChatGPT

With your co-hosts: 

@jasoncwarner - Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical 

@ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) 

@patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health

@jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health