Mizuho Americas Head of Investment & Corporate Banking Michal Katz and Head of Technology, Media & Telecom Investment & Corporate Banking Andy Laszlo sat down with Sam Altman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI during the Mizuho Technology Conference to discuss advancements in Artificial Intelligence, how humans will interact with AI and energy as the lifeblood of the technology industry.
ChatGPT
The number of users of OpenAI’s premier product, ChatGPT, has grown to 500 million weekly active users in just over 2 years. The model became mature enough over that period to be released for use as general purpose AI, shared Sam Altman at the Mizuho Technology Conference. An earlier model may not have led to widespread adoption, he said, adding “our goal is to just get to a continuously improving system.”
UX
Talking to users is one way OpenAI learned to integrate preferences into its design, Sam Altman told Andy Laszlo during the keynote. “It’s calm, it’s easy, it’s simple,” he said users told OpenAI developers about the product, adding that a lot of the internet is like “walking down the Las Vegas strip,” noisy, bright and distracting rather than streamlined like ChatGPT.
Energy
Cheap and abundant energy is what has propelled quality of life forward, Sam Altman told Michal Katz and Andy Laszlo during the keynote. Solar and nuclear power will figure prominently in the energy mix going forward and it’s important for the development of AI. “We will head towards a world where the cost of intelligence converges to the cost of energy,” Altman said.
Watch the replay with Sam Altman below: