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Doomsday Predictions Around ChatGPT Are Counter-Productive

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, OpenAI chief Sam Altman recently declared that he was “a little bit scared”, with the sentiment shared by OpenAI’s chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who recently said that “at some point it will be quite easy, if one wanted, to cause a great deal of harm”.

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Leading Thoughts for October 22, 2020

Leading Blog

Entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman on the importance of value: “All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.”.

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2023 Compilation

Leading Blog

Podcast: @jamesstrock interviews Richard Norton Smith author of An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R.

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How the Best Place of Work Became A State of Mind

Great Leadership By Dan

Gue st post from Jonas Altman : Matt Mullenweg’s company had a plush office at Pier 38 in San Francisco’s Embarcadero. A Far-Out Vision When it comes to engagement, creativity, and productivity - there’s an intricate tango to strike between people and place. We can view work for what it’s becoming; an experimental practice to evolve.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2020 Compilation

Leading Blog

How To Invest In Startups by @sama Sam Altman. Start-ups: The Founding Team Is a Real Magic Bullet via @INSEADKnowledge Studies show that the entrepreneurial team may impact a start-up’s long-term success more than its product. The Most Important Thing No One Ever Taught You by @LaRaeQuy. Inside big tech's quest for human-level A.I.

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You Can’t Raise Performance with Low Expectations

The Practical Leader

In his book, The Excellence Dividend , Tom Peters writes, “In an Oscar acceptance speech, the late director Robert Altman said: ‘The role of the director is to create a space where the actors and actresses can become more than they have ever been before, more than they’ve dreamed of being.'”

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Deep Factors Shaping the Global Economy

Leading Blog

Instead of focusing on moment–by-moment market predictions, author Daniel Altman, looks at deeper, underlying economic factors that we frequently overlook in the short-term view. And it is the deep factors matter the most says Altman. As this is the long view, Altman says that means that there is room to maneuver.