Sam Altman (OpenAI) - The Possibilities of AI

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Altman gives advice for aspiring AI entrepreneurs and shares his insights about the opportunities and risks of AI tools and artificial general intelligence.

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0:00.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you by Stanford Ecorner.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar at Stanford University.
0:16.0	This is the Stanford Seminar for Aspiring Entrepreneurs.
0:19.0	ETL is brought to you by STVP, the Stanford Entrepreneurship Engineering Center and Basis,
0:23.6	the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurals students.
0:26.6	I'm Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the management science and engineering department,
0:30.6	and the director of Alchemist, an accelerator for enterprise startups.
0:33.6	And today I have the pleasure of welcoming Sam Altman to ETL.
0:45.3	Sam is the co-founder and CEO of OpenA.I. Open is not a word I would use to describe the seats in this class, and so I think by virtue of that that everybody already probably knows OpenAI but for those who don't, Open AI is the research and deployment company behind ChatGBT,
0:58.2	GBT, Dali, and Sora.
1:00.9	Sam's life is a pattern of breaking boundaries and transcending what's possible, both for himself
1:06.6	and for the world.
1:07.8	He grew up in the Midwest in St. Louis, came to Stanford, took ETL as an
1:13.3	undergrad. And we held on to Stanford for two years. He studied computer science. And then after
1:20.2	his sophomore year, he joined the inaugural class of Y Combinator with a social mobile app company
1:25.0	called Looped that then went on to go raise money from Sequoia and others.
1:29.3	He then dropped out of Stanford, spent seven years on Looped, which got acquired,
1:33.3	and then he rejoined Wycombinator in an operational role.
1:36.3	He became the president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019.
1:41.3	And then in 2015, he co-founded Open AI as a nonprofit research lab with
1:46.1	the mission to build general purpose, artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity.
1:51.2	Open AI has set the record for the fastest growing app in history with the launch of ChatJBT,
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