The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, recently told Business Insider that he wasn’t ready for public recognition when his company’s generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, became successful.
The 39-year-old software billionaire discussed in a podcast episode of “The Logan Bartlett Show” that was released last week the privacy and anonymity he has lost as a result of his work.
“It’s very strange that you can’t just be mostly anonymous in public,” Altman remarked. I believe that if I had considered it at the time, I could have concluded, “Well, this is going to be weirder than it sounds like.”
However, I didn’t give it any thought. It resembles something even stranger. It’s an oddly alone way of life.”
Although he acknowledged the significance of artificial intelligence (AI) and the role his tech company can play in raising awareness of how AI may improve people’s lives, he claimed he “didn’t think I would not be able to go out to dinner in my own city.”
Though OpenAI played a significant part in bringing Altman to attention, he was by no means unknown in Silicon Valley prior to this.
He served as president of the startup incubator Y Combinator for a number of years prior to assuming leadership of OpenAI in 2019.
Altman talked about his shocking dismissal from OpenAI earlier in the podcast episode. He claimed to be in a “adrenaline-charged state” and to have little to no food or sleep throughout that period.
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