Who is the Man Behind ChatGPT? Meet Sam Altman @Newsthink
Who is the Man Behind ChatGPT? Meet Sam Altman  @Newsthink
Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Image sources:
0:06 Y Combinator full speech by Sam Altman: youtube.com/watch?v=0lJKucu6HJc&t=38s
1:08 MattsOtherChannel on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=ri4VuLMlkyM&t=5s (creative commons license - re-use allowed)
2:46 TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
3:11 Kevin Hale from San Francisco, CA, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
3:13 Photo credit: Alex Lewin. Image is in the public domain, as indicated on his personal website where the image was originally sourced.
Jessica Livingston image: Gabor Cselle from San Francisco, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
3:20 Sam Altman image: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
7:49 TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Articles and interviews referenced:
1:19 The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny
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