#112 What it's like working at ChatGPT Creator Open AI – My Interview with Logan Kilpatrick
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Logan Kilpatric, a software engineer and ChatGPT creator Open AI's first-ever Developer Advocate hire. The week Logan started, ChatGPT hit 1 million users. (It now has 180 million monthly users.)
During our conversation, Logan shares his journey from Illinois to Harvard, NASA, and now the world's most-watched tech company, Open AI. Along the way, he joined the board of NumFOCUS, which oversees Data Science Python libraries like NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib.
This is my long, intimate conversation with an emerging star in the AI and Machine Learning world. Logan is also a prolific freeCodeCamp.org contributor. It was a blast talking with Logan for nearly two hours. I think you'll dig it.
You can follow Logan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK
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| 0:00.0 | We are here in the studio, the virtual studio, with none other than Logan Kilpatrick, developer advocate at |
| 0:25.0 | OpenAI and somebody whom I've had the joy of corresponding with for several years at this |
| 0:30.7 | point, huge advocate for Julia Lang, which is a data science statistical language. In addition to Python and |
| 0:41.0 | R, there's Julia. And you've been very instrumental. It sounds like in helping raise awareness |
| 0:45.8 | of that and getting more people using it and learning how to use it. And we're going to talk |
| 0:50.6 | about that. We're going to talk about your time at Open AI. But of course, I want to dive straight in and welcome you. |
| 0:58.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:59.5 | Thank you, Quincy. |
| 1:00.3 | This is going to be awesome. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm such a fan of a free code, Gavin. |
| 1:03.3 | I think the work that you and the team and the entire community are doing is super |
| 1:08.2 | important. |
| 1:08.7 | So I'm happy to support where I can and just be a cheerleader |
| 1:13.6 | from the sideline as well in many cases. Awesome. Yeah. Well, we're very excited to have you |
| 1:19.4 | cheerleading and I will continue to cheerleader for all the amazing tools you all are cooking up |
| 1:25.4 | over at Open AI as well both uh you know the foundational model |
| 1:29.3 | the foundation model that I use many times a day and the open source projects that we're also |
| 1:34.9 | using within free code camp so uh I want to start by just diving in before you were Logan Kilpatrick |
| 1:42.8 | you know uh you have so many different hats that you wear, |
| 1:47.3 | somebody who has, you know, interned at NASA, somebody who has, who is working as a developer |
| 1:53.9 | advocate, somebody who is going to lots of conferences and speaking authoritatively on a lot of |
| 1:59.2 | these topics. |
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