![]() Kate Linebaugh: For decades, AGI had seemed out of reach. Greg Brockman: We were, and that was the rebellious thing. Kate Linebaugh: But you were talking about it? Greg Brockman: It was very fringe, very fringe. It was something where if you talked about AGI in the field, you'd be kind of laughed down as kind of a crackpot or something like that. Greg Brockman: Actually, in talking about AGI or general intelligence, that was not something that was very polite at the time. It stands for artificial general intelligence and it basically means a machine as smart or smarter than a human. They were talking about something kind of sounding AGI. And on the AI side there was Ilya Sutskover, a top machine learning researcher.Īnd as you might expect, given the guest list, it wasn't your average dinner conversation. He was the president of Y Combinator, the famous startup accelerator. Greg, for example, had been an executive at Stripe, the payments company. ![]() Kate Linebaugh: Around the table were a mix of startup people and AI researchers. I think the good stuff was about to begin. And I actually showed up a little bit late and I felt very bad because I felt like I kind of missed all the good stuff, but fortunately the opposite was true. Greg Brockman: It was like 10 ish people, something like that. That was the kind of dinner Greg was headed to. It's a place where tech types and investors hatch plans and cut deals. It calls itself an urban retreat and a strip steak in the hotel restaurant will set you back 70 bucks. Kate Linebaugh: Despite its proximity to the Interstate, The Rosewood is a classy place. Kate Linebaugh: Always love a view of an Interstate. Very nice, very nice view of the rolling hills, and you can see the interstate in the distance. ![]() Greg Brockman: So this was at the Rosewood in Palo Alto. He was going to a dinner that would change tech history. Kate Linebaugh: In 2015, a young executive named Greg Brockman arrived at a hotel in Silicon Valley. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. This transcript was prepared by a transcription service.
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