Zack Kass

And from there, I graduated to a company called Lilt, which was building neural nets for the purposes of machine translation, neural networks.

And then from there, I got to go to OpenAI and was one of the early employees, 90th employee

and helped build the company's sales solutions and partnerships teams.

Well, it was cool to the right people.

I mean, it depends on how you define cool and who defines it.

It's true.

Most people did not know about it.

And most people probably at the time called it a cult.

I was one of the only people in the world that had sold modern AI.

And I'd been selling it for a while.

So I knew how it worked.

I knew what it did.

We've been talking about thinking machines since about 1900.

And we've been talking about AI, the term artificial intelligence, since 1954.

And these concepts have been pretty theoretical.

We didn't really know what it would look like.

We just knew that we would eventually or thought we could eventually build machines that were smarter than humans.

And that journey took us on quite an interesting ride that we cover in the book.

And honestly, when I wrote up the history of AI in the book,

It occurs to me that it's kind of boring to people, but it is important to teach people because I think we will talk about modern AI the way we talk about electricity.