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OpenAI should provide intelligence while users supply context
OpenAI should provide intelligence while users supply context
Altman says OpenAI's role should be to provide a general AI engine, while individuals, businesses and societies determine which problems to solve, what questions to ask and what local context matters.
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Topic
- AI as a Platform
- Source timestamp
- 10:08
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