Enjoyed this interview with Elon Musk this am. http://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/ Thanks for sharing the link @realdealschmehl
1. Do anything that produces a small amount of good for a large number of people and you’re on the right track. Not every person has to set out to change the world.
2. Three big ideas to work on:
a. AI; Make sure we have a great future to head to.
b. Genetics; change Alzheimer’s, change genetic dispositions
c. High Bandwidth constraint with our digital form.
3. How is OpenAI doing as a young company?
a.https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/
b. OpenAI’s technical goals https://openai.com/blog/openai-technical-goals/
i. Measure our progress
ii. Build a household robot
iii. Build an agent with useful natural language understanding
iv. Solve a wide variety of games using a single agent
4. 80% of time is spent on engineering & design