Once the whiteboard arrived, the excitement in the room collapsed because no one knew what to do next. This AI on Air clip is excerpted from a recent episode on the @davidsenra channel. The main speaker is Sam Altman @sama, co-founder and CEO of @OpenAI. ▷ On January 4, the team gathered with great excitement, and it felt like the first day of school. Someone suggested getting a whiteboard; when it arrived, everyone looked around again and the energy in the room fell away. ▷ This was not like building a product startup, where the team could begin with a product and customer conversations. They only knew that they wanted to make AGI, so they decided to write papers, think about research ideas, and start with what they knew how to do. ▷ After discovering that many approaches did not work, the team developed a rhythm for making and evaluating research bets. It also found ways to give very smart people the resources they needed and avoid becoming completely lost. The path was far from perfect, but it allowed the team to keep moving forward.