English Conversation Lesson about Elon Musk and Sam Altman, and concern if AI
A: For instance, now Twitter charges people to write in long form and to have the blue checkmark and other things.
B: I think because in the past, Twitter was maintained by the money of people who wanted to show an advertise to others. That's a kind of market mechanism, and it makes things bad. For example, if some people are arguing on Twitter, there would be a lot of views and access. It's positive for Twitter customers because it provides many chances to show advertisements. I'm not sure if Musk's choice is correct or not, but he made a radical decision to change the mechanism of the market.
A: Since then, I think Twitter has been losing a lot of advertisers because they are unable to run really targeted ads.
B: The answer will come after a few years. We don't know if the decision is correct in this situation.
A: The jury is still out on Twitter's decision to charge for blue checkmarks.
B: Some decisions or posts by Musk may look ridiculous, but he's made a lot of success in the business area. That proves his knowledge and skill to make businesses better. So even if we can't understand his actions and they look ridiculous, it might still be a good idea.
A: Yes. He is a man who has succeeded against all odds all his life. And so for people to just write him off simply because he took over Twitter in a way that they didn't particularly like, and he laid off a lot of workers. But one thing we cannot take away from him is that he's a serial winner. He and his companies have done well, and they've always been at the cutting edge of technology. And he is willing to put in the hard work.
B: I see. But I want to say that he didn’t win all his challenges. You may know he was invested in OpenAI, but he left from OpenAI.
A: Yes, they blindsided him. He invested a hundred million because he thought it was open source, but those guys cheated him out of it because they made a deal with Microsoft and now they just gave everything over to Microsoft. So he actually felt slighted and thought, come on guys, you were doing great work. You were doing it open source. I thought that was really good. That's why I gave you a hundred million. Now all of a sudden, all we hear is that you guys have given AI to Microsoft and now Microsoft is going to reap the benefits of what we invested. That's not fair.
B: I see.
A: Yeah, I think what OpenAI did, wasn't fair because people who saw the light at the beginning of their work invested and gave them the platform to continue their work. In the beginning, the company was not-for-profit. Elon and the other guys were totally blindsided as to how OpenAI transformed into a for-profit company and was sold to Microsoft. If you took money as a nonprofit and now you're a for-profit, you kind of swindled them.
B: I understand what you're saying. The CEO of OpenAI is another clever guy.
A: AI is a bit worrying. One Google AI pioneer resigned from Google because there's no way to prevent bad actors from using AI for bad things. Don't you agree?
B: I see. That's a cause of concern for him. I understand his concern. I just know we don't have an answer for the concern.
A: I see. We've been chatting for almost 35 minutes. Do you want to do any textbook?
B: We don't need to use textbooks. This conversation is very interesting for me.
A: So let's continue.
B: Yes. There is a lot of concern about AI, I agree with you, but we don't know how to solve it. Some people say we should stop the AI development. But I think we can't stop the progress of AI already because there are a lot of people all over the world who want to improve AI.
A: Yes. We can't stop all activity all over the world. We can't stop them.