Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, recently said that any price is justified in order to become the first company to develop general artificial intelligence (AGI). "Whether we burn $500 million a year or $5 billion a year or $50 billion a year, I don't care, I really don't care," Altman said in an exchange with Stanford students this week. "As long as we can find a way to pay the bills, we will do AGI." Altman also said that in the process of spending heavily to develop AGI, he is more conce...