This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchelor.

I welcome Keech Hage, the author of The Optimist,

Sam Altman, Open AI, and The Race to Invent the Future.

I congratulate you, Keach, and thank you very much, and I take you to a scene in your reporting,

very careful reporting. It is January 4, 2016 in San Francisco. Some of the principles of ChachyPT are gathered, having committed

themselves to the document that's critical here the previous month, December 11th, co-authored by

Brockman and Siskova. It announces the launch of OpenAI as a non-profit research company backed by

one million in funding from Elon Musk. Wow. So we need to introduce the names here. Who is Mr.

Brockman? Who is Mr. Sutskiefer? And why do they need a billion dollars in January of 2016?

Good evening to you.

Hello, great to be here. So Greg Brockman was the co-founder of OpenA.I., this new research

lab, and Ilya Sutskever, what was another co-founder, who was really going to be the chief

scientist, the sort of leading scientific light for research. And although they had just put out

a press release saying they raised a billion dollars, it started extremely modestly in Greg

Brockman's apartment where they didn't even have a whiteboard. They were just sitting around,

kicking around ideas. Greg Rockman had to like wash the cups for the small handful of researchers

because they didn't really

have any idea what they were doing and they were trying to keep costs very, very low in the

beginning. Yes, this is something called deep mind, but I need to, I need your help in identifying

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