Karen Hao

Yeah, can't imagine that.

And when Musk didn't successfully get the CEO position because Greg Brockman, chief technology officer, and Ilya Seskever, chief scientist at the time, first chose Musk, but then ended up flipping to Altman, Musk departed.

He was like, I don't want to be part of an organization where I don't have this level of control.

At that time, he was

Yeah.

So I like to use the analogy that AI is like the word transportation.

Transportation is actually a concept and it refers to a collection of technologies, everything from bicycles to rockets.

And what unifies those technologies is they get you from point A to point B. But you would never say like, I'm taking the transportation to the airport today.

Exactly.

And with AI, it's also a vast collection of technologies that are conceptually tied together based on the idea that they're performing some kind of automation of different types of human capabilities.

So there's computer vision that automates our ability to see.

There's chatbots that automate our ability to converse.

There's generative writing tools that automate our ability to write and speak and so on and so forth.

But that was the original project of AI.

Back in the 1950s, when a group of scientists came together and said, let's create a discipline that seeks to essentially recreate the human mind and recreate all the things that humans can do, but in a machine.

Absolutely.

Exactly, yeah.

So...

Back in the 1950s, they first tried to call it automata studies.

And John McCarthy, who was an assistant professor at Dartmouth, chose then to rename it artificial intelligence when no one gave a crap about a discipline called automata studies.