The ChatGPT chatbot really took the world by storm, because it was able to answer questions well, even write long sentences steadily. What's more, Microsoft will integrate it with Bing. Who is really behind ChatGPT?
As is known, ChatGPT is created by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research laboratory. Well, the CEO is a young man named Sam Altman. who is only 37 years old.
As quoted by us from CNBC, Altman is not as famous as Mark Zuckerberg, let alone Elon Musk or Bill Gates. However, along with the development of artificial intelligence, it is predicted to accelerate.
Altman was born in Missouri into a well-to-do family. He was given a computer when he was 8 years old. Altman then studied Computer Science at Stanford University, but dropped out in 2005.
That year, at just 19 years old, Altman became the founder and CEO of Loopt, a location-based social network. Despite failing to achieve high popularity, the startup sold USD 43.4 million.
After that, Altman joined the startup advisory company Y Combinator and became its president in 2014. So a year later or 2015, he co-founded OpenAI with well-known names in the technology world such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Altman lined up to become CEO.
His name soared after ChatGPT was introduced to the public at the end of 2022. This software is viral because it seems to be a genius figure in the internet world, able to answer all questions.
Many netizens are worried that ChatGPT will be the start of an AI disaster like in the Terminator movie and on the other hand, making tech giants like Google panic after seeing its capabilities.
Silicon Valley may have found its next star in the ChatGPT boss. “He is definitely a man at his peak, which looks even more impressive because he is only 37 years old,” said Oren Etzioni, an artificial intelligence expert quoted by us on CNBC.
San Francisco-based OpenAi is a small company compared to many tech giants, with 375 employees. However, the impact is considered to be even greater in the future.
Despite his hobby of looking like a teenager in a t-shirt and jeans, Altman has had a longstanding reputation. He once hosted a Barack Obama fundraiser and was deemed fit to be governor of California.
His circle of friends is no joke, with figures such as Facebook investors and 'Paypal Mafia' boss Peter Thiel, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, to the world's richest man today, Elon Musk.
"Within about three minutes of meeting him, I remember thinking this is what Bill Gates must have looked like when he was 19," said Y Combinator founder Paul Graham who made him president.
Altman is quite private, rarely interviews with the media and mostly expresses his opinion through social media. He is not someone who likes to appear like Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. However, no one doubted his cleverness. We'll see how ChatGPT develops in his hands, hopefully in a positive direction.