#120 - WOJCIECH ZAREMBA

Wojciech is a Co-Founder of OpenAI, where he leads both the Codex research and language teams. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company aiming to develop and ensure that artificial general intelligence is safe and benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is known for developing GPT-3, a natural language model that creates human-like text, and DALL-E, a machine learning model to generate digital images from natural language descriptions. Follow Wojciech on Twitter @woj_zaremba.

[2:18] - Wojciech’s childhood interest in science experiments and explosives

[11:14] - How following his curiosities guided Wojciech to AI

[21:33] - Defining consciousness in the presence of AI

[27:15] - The Alignment Problem - how to ensure AI does what humans want it to

[45:13] - Why Wojciech believes AI augmentation can be powerful, and help to further advance AI itself

[49:52] - The shortcomings of AI in communication and decision-making and how these will influence future development paths

[1:03:11] - AI’s opportunity to expand human empathy

[1:10:40] - OpenAI’s role in making AI a widely-distributed public good

[1:18:10] - How Wojciech views other organizations’ approaches to developing AI for mass consumption

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