ChatGPT ushers in a whole new era in the world of technology. Its growing popularity has sparked talk about AI and its potential, although it has been around for a while, from students who use it to write papers to programmers who rely on it to automate certain tasks.
The massive success of the ChatGPT bot - which has become the fastest growing app in history - has prompted major technology companies to quickly introduce updates and new products to keep up with the new age of AI that we are witnessing.
In addition, the bot sparked a fierce new competition between Google and Microsoft to integrate generative AI into the search engine as Microsoft seeks to move away from Google's dominance in the search engine and search engine market.
Much has been said about ChatGPT; Let's meet the brains behind it, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and co-founder of OpenAI in 2015.
Sam Altman, 37, has become the hottest face in AI in recent months, but this is nothing new for him. Because he has been in the Silicon Valley world since 2005, just like Altman in the tech world in 2005 when he left Stanford to start his own company, like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Beginning of Sam Altman:
(Sam Altman) Born in April 1985 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, his passion for learning programming began at the age of eight when he was given a computer for his birthday.
Altman studied computer science at Stanford for two years before dropping out in 2005 to work with colleagues on an app called Loopt that allows users to share their real-time location with friends.
Loopt raised more than $30 million in venture capital, but Sam's plan wasn't a success, so he sold it to Green Dot for $43 million in 2012.
Working at Y Combinator:
Y Combinator was an early investor in Sam's Loopt and is also known for backing a number of major companies including Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Dropbox, Pinterest, Zenefits, FarmLogs, as well as 'Instacart' among others.
According to the website, Y Combinator has funded more than 3,500 startups and graduated more than 9,000 founders who have completed their programs with a total value of nearly $1 trillion.
Sam Altman joined Y Combinator in 2011 as a Partner, joined the business full-time in 2012 after selling his record, and soon succeeded co-founder Paul Graham as Chairman in 2014.
In 2015, Forbes named him the best investor under the age of 30. Then, in 2016, Altman became chairman of the YC Group, which consists of: Y Combinator, YC Continuity, and YC Research.
Appearance of OponAI:
Sam Altman met a number of technology investors in July 2015, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and others, who pledged $1 billion to start a nonprofit focused on developing artificial intelligence. According to a statement posted on OpenAI on December 11, 2015, all of humanity could benefit.
at that time; Elon Musk saw AI as the greatest threat to humanity, and it wasn't the only warning about the potential dangers of AI at the time. 2014; Stephen Hawking warned that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity.
Founded in 2015, OpenAI launched two products a year later: Gym, a platform enabling researchers to develop reinforcement learning systems, and Universe, a software platform for training AI systems.
Musk resigned from OpenAI's board of directors in 2018, three years after he co-founded the company, for reasons cited at the time to avoid future conflicts of interest as his automaker Tesla grows and focuses on AI development.
But Musk said in a tweet on Twitter in 2019, "He resigned from (Open AI) because he was competing with Tesla for some employees, and on top of that he did not agree with some of the things that the Open AI team wanted to do."
2020; "He has low confidence in the company when it comes to security," Musk said in another tweet.
Microsoft's investment in OpenAI:
(Sam Altman) He resigned from the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of YC Group in March 2019 to focus on OpenAI. Altman became CEO of OpenAI in May 2019 after OpenAI transitioned from a non-profit organization to a non-profit organization.
After the corporate structure change, Altman traveled to Seattle to meet with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, where he showed her the OpenAI artificial intelligence model, the Wall Street Journal reported. Then, OpenAI received a billion investment from Microsoft in 2019.
After Altman became CEO of OpenAI and Microsoft invested in him, the company focused more on research and development in natural language processing.
Ilya Sutskiver, chief scientist at Altman and OpenAI, told Fortune, "Large language model initiatives are the best way for companies to achieve (artificial general intelligence) AGI, a system with broad cognitive capabilities that mimics those of humans."
Additionally, on October 21, 2021, Altman and his partners launched a global cryptocurrency project called Worldcoin, which aims to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone around the world. The company stopped operating in some countries in 2022 due to logistical issues. But he announced via Twitter in January 2023 that he had reached 1 million users.
What a month! So far in 2023, Worldcoin:
— Worldcoin (@worldcoin) January 31, 2023
🎉 Reached 1 million onboarded humans.
🏦 Provided 150K+ first time crypto users with brand new self-custodial @safe wallets.
🪩 Shared the Orb’s hardware files with the community (GitHub link below 👇).
Excited for February! 🔜
Led by Altman as CEO, OpenAI introduced the popular generative AI tools DALL-E and ChatGPT with great success.
This success prompted Microsoft to increase its investment in OpenAI to $10 billion and is now working to integrate ChatGPT functionality into its products.
OpenAI is also working on a paid version of ChatGPT called (ChatGPT Plus), which costs $20 per month and offers the following benefits: use the service anytime during off-peak hours, faster responses than the free version, and priority access to new features and improvements.
The future of artificial intelligence:
Sam Altman believes that the revolution brought about by AIG is unstoppable. As he wrote in a blog post titled "Moore's Law of Everything," "Advancements in AI technology over the next 100 years will surpass anything we've done since we controlled the fire and chose the wheel."