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HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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Y Combinator - What Was the Idea Behind Open AI?

I studied AI as an undergrad, which was like dark times, nothing was working. And then in 2012, deep neural networks started to work. And not only did they start to work, it appeared that the more compute you throughout them, the better they got. In some sense, yes, being a VC is like an admission of failure. But in some other sense, what an incredible platform. I could like do whatever I wanted here. And I love YC so much.

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