Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, recently revealed that he was not ready to be recognized in public following the success of his company's ChatGPT generative AI chatbot. Business Insider reported.
The 39-year-old tech billionaire reflected on the privacy and anonymity he's lost as a result of his work during an episode of “The Logan Bartlett Show” podcast released last week.
Altman said, “The inability to be virtually anonymous in public is very, very strange. I think if I had thought about it at the time, I would have said, 'Okay, this is going to be a weirder thing than it seems.'”
“But I didn't really think about that. It's a much stranger thing. It's a strangely isolated way of living.”
While he had realized the importance of AI and the importance of his technology company in raising awareness about how AI can change people's lives, he said “I didn't think I wouldn't be able to go out to dinner in my own city “.
Despite OpenAI's important role in highlighting Altman, he was previously far from anonymous in Silicon Valley.
Before taking control of OpenAI in 2019, he was president of startup accelerator Y Combinator for several years.
Later in the podcast episode, Altman spoke about his dramatic ouster from OpenAI last year. He said he lived in an “adrenaline-charged state” and that he didn't eat or sleep much during that time.
