What’s Cooler Than Building a Literal God? Building the New Uber

An interesting shift seems to be happening in the language of OpenAI’s biggest hype people. The term “artificial general intelligence” and the idea of the do-it-all AI seem to have fallen out of favor a bit. In its place: personalized AI experiences and researchers.

Perhaps the clearest example of this change can be seen in OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar’s latest conversation with the Wall Street Journal. Fresh off her “when I said we expect a government backstop for our massive…