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

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