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Sam Altman has always been an "AI nerd" from an early age. 🤓

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Sam Altman has always been an "AI nerd" from an early age. 🤓

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I was always an AI nerd. I thought AI

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was the coolest thing. I always wanted

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to work on it. I never like really

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thought I'd actually get to do it. I

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kind of can't believe this happened. I

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always thought it was awesome. I went to

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school to study it. At the time, nothing

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was working and I kind of gave up on it

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and I went on this side quest of

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entrepreneurship which was also great.

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And then in 2012, everything changed. It

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was a a real watershed moment where all

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of a sudden deep learning started to

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work and it got better with more

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compute. And by the time 2015 rolled

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around, I was like, "This is going to

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happen. We got to try. This could be

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like the most important thing ever."

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started open AI at the very end of 2015.

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The speaker shares their journey from being a long-time AI enthusiast to founding OpenAI, describing the shift in the field during the 2012 deep learning breakthrough.

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