I welcome Keach Hagey, the author of The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.
I take us to a scene from Keach’s very careful reporting.
It’s January 4th, 2016 in San Francisco. Some of the principals of ChatGPT are gathered, having committed themselves to a document that's critical here, coauthored by Brockman and Sutskever. The document announces the launch of the OpenAI as a nonprofit research company backed by $1 billion in funding from Elon Musk. So we need to introduce the names here.
Who is Mr. Brockman? Who is Mr. Sutskever? And why did they need $1 billion in January of 2016?
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The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future by Keach Hagey
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