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David Rosenthal: uncertainty

6 Sept 2023 Acquired Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

“I don’t know what they were doing in the company, but it made sense to start one.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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uncertainty
Recorded
6 Sept 2023
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Acquired

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…I also didn’t know there were people named Boole, that that’s where that came from. That’s hilarious. Yeah, the AND, OR, XOR, NOR operators. That comes from George and Mary. Wild. He’s the faculty advisor and then there was a third person on the team, Alex’s fellow PhD student in this lab Ilya Sutskever. If you know where we’re going with this, you are probably jumping up and down right now in your seat. Ilya is the co-founder and current chief scientist of OpenAI. After AlexNet, Alex, Jeff, and Ilya do the very natural thing. They start a company. I don’t know what they were doing in the company, but it made sense to start one. And whatever they did, it was going to get acquired real fast.…

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