(Mr. Musk wrote again: “Thanks Sam!”)
Within the “On With Kara Swisher” podcast, in March 2023:
“He’s a jerk, no matter else you need to say about him — he has a mode that isn’t a mode that I’d need to have for myself. However I feel he does actually care, and he’s feeling very harassed about what the long run’s going to appear like for humanity.”
Within the “In Good Company” podcast, in September:
“Elon was positively a expertise magnet and a focus magnet, for positive, and in addition identical to has some actual superpowers that had been tremendous useful to us in these early days, apart from all of these issues.”
What Mr. Musk and Mr. Altman mentioned about A.I. in joint appearances:
In a dialog at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment, in October 2015:
Mr. Altman: “The blissful imaginative and prescient of the long run is people and A.I. in a symbiotic relationship, distributed A.I., kind of empowers loads of people, not this single A.I. that sort of governs all the things all of us try this’s one million occasions smarter than some other entity.
Mr. Musk: “I agree with what Sam mentioned. We’re successfully already a human machine collective symbiot, like a large cyborg.”
In an interview Mr. Altman conducted with Mr. Musk, in September 2016:
Mr. Altman: “Talking of actually necessary issues — A.I. — you will have been outspoken about A.I. May you discuss what you suppose the optimistic future for A.I. seems to be like and the way we get there?”
Mr. Musk: “So I feel we will need to have democratization of A.I. expertise, make it extensively out there, and that’s the rationale that clearly you, me, and the remainder of the crew, created OpenAI was to assist with the, assist unfold out A.I. expertise so it doesn’t get concentrated within the palms of some.”
Cade Metz contributed reporting.