Earlier this year, OpenAI’s cofounders described how their A.I. venture had broken various Silicon Valley rules on its way to a valuation of nearly $30 billion.
“You’re supposed to have a problem to solve, not a technology in search of the solution,” CTO Greg Brockman told the Possible podcast in May. In OpenAI’s early days, he said, the leaders spent months “just writing down all the different ideas that we could work on for both GPT-3 and for GPT-4 … Maybe we could do a medical thing or a legal thing.”
