the best advice this founder received working at the company

00:00 Speaker A

OpenAI is back in your company.

00:01 Speaker B

Yes.

00:01 Speaker A

Sam, did Sam Altman give you incredible advice that you continue to follow every day?

00:05 Speaker B

Yeah, actually maybe I could tell a story there. So at OpenAI, when I was leaving to join Facebook, Sam and I had actually had some conversations about: should we go do something like proteomics, should we use AI to design proteins, you know, back then.

00:20 Speaker B

And I decided that the technology wasn’t ready yet. I think there’s a lesson here, and the same goes for AGI. It’s like you have to think big, but you also have to strike the iron while it’s hot.

00:29 Speaker B

So it would no longer make sense to put these AI models in the hands of humans like three years ago because it hasn’t worked yet.

00:33 Speaker B

And I think one of the reasons why we think this will be the year that AI models actually used in AI drug discovery will be available is because the technology is finally working.

00:41 Speaker B

There was something Ilya said to me, I think it was in the first week of my job at OpenAI. He said you should try to ensure that any experiment you start is finished that day.

00:50 Speaker B

And I, and that’s something I’ve carried with me throughout my career. It’s not even just about training AI models, you also need fast feedback loops. You need to be able to try things and get feedback from people.

00:58 Speaker B

That’s why drug development is so difficult, right? If it takes two years to discover your drug, how do you get these kinds of feedback loops?

01:03 Speaker B

And if we can compress those timelines and go after harder problems, we can iterate a lot more and hopefully come up with much better solutions.