Sam Altman heads a revolving, perpetual bell of massive AI breakthroughs, predicting a future where our biggest and sometimes most personal problems can be solved and our wildest dreams realized by AI.
This week, in a long and revealing chat with former CNN journalist and current Mostly Human podcast host Laurie Segall, the OpenAI CEO opened up about Sora’s death (needing the calculation because something “very big and important is happening”) and enlisting the US War Department after Anthropic fended off (“very important that governments are more powerful [than AI]”), and some notable AI breakthroughs.
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Altman, who complained that OpenAI’s Codex AI coding agent model isn’t yet smart enough to help him create new side project ideas, shared the startling story of someone who used the platform to build a billion-dollar business — all by himself.
Segall asked about the possibility that a single entrepreneur could one day use these tools to build the next billion-dollar company.
“I think it has happened,” said Altman, who was not at liberty to give any details such as the name of the entrepreneur, the company or what it does.
“It’s a legitimate one-man billion-dollar company, as far as I can tell. I didn’t like to review the financials, but I think it just happened,” Altman added.
The way this person built it could be more interesting. It was all done with Codex.
Altman called the founder “One of the greatest users of the Codex of all time” and “like incredibly prolific in a way that no single person could have been.”
Altman was so impressed that he hired the entrepreneur.
AI is your new partner
Common to these two stories is a pair of obsessed humans pushing the AIs to their limits.
As someone on LinkedIn noted on Conyngham’s page, “Paul didn’t have a biology degree. He had 17 years of pattern recognition, a dying dog he loved, and the willingness to treat an impossible problem like a data problem.”
In the case of the entrepreneur, it doesn’t sound like they dropped a short prompt in Codex and then walked away while it built and ran a company. Most of the best work that comes out of AI is collaborative, with the collaboration between you and the AI.
Inquiries are just a starting point. The conversation and refinement of these requests is what gets the work done and drives you and the AI to a final product.
In the case of Rosie the dog, the mRNA vaccine was not developed and administered by AI. ChatGPT and the other platforms were like very smart research assistants, digging through the volume of data on canine cancer research to find meaningful information and make recommendations. Conyngham figured out what to do with it and then turned to the human experts to make it happen.
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