The tech CEO of OpenAI compared his firm’s work on artificial intelligence to the Manhattan Project, when the first nuclear weapons were developed during World War II, according to a report.
“As Mr. Altman sipped a sweet wine in lieu of dessert, he compared his company to the Manhattan Project,” the New York Times reported Friday, based on a 2019 interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “As if he were chatting about tomorrow’s weather forecast, he said the U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb during the Second World War had been a ‘project on the scale of OpenAI — the level of ambition we aspire to.
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