{"id":299503,"date":"2025-11-22T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299503\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:24:08","slug":"sam-altman-once-told-a-room-of-investors-his-plan-for-profitability-was-to-just-ask-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299503\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Once Told a Room of Investors His Plan For Profitability Was to Just \u2018Ask AI\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The future of OpenAI depends on the company\u2019s ability to follow through on one of its main promises, creating \u201cartificial general intelligence.\u201d Sam Altman, the company\u2019s CEO, even said so himself. In a presentation about AI, Altman joked that he once promised his investors that while he doesn\u2019t yet have a plan for how OpenAI might pay them back, he is hopeful that the \u201cartificial general intelligence\u201d he\u2019s promised might solve that problem for him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Altman, in his always clever and annoying way, said, \u201cWe&#8217;ll ask it [artificial general intelligence] how to make a return investment for you.\u201d The response, while seemingly enough for OpenAI\u2019s investors to sink billions into the company, also received some candid laughs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Only time will tell if they were laughing at Altman or with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@elhbjtaxd697?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"@elhbjtaxd697\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@elhbjtaxd697<\/a> Sam Altman telling a room full of VCs with a straight face that he will take billions of their money, build AGI, and then ask it how to generate a return <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/ai?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#Ai<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/aitools?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"aitools\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#Aitools<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/aitechnology?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"aitechnology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#aitechnology<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7574243814073994014?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - LevelUpFire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; LevelUpFire<\/a><br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of OpenAI depends on the company\u2019s ability to follow through on one of its main promises,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-299503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}