European Developers Converge at IE University to Meet Sam Altman
The CEO of Open AI also met with IE School of Science and Technology students.
Developers from around Europe converged at IE University to meet with Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, who discussed ChatGPT and subjects like regulation, watermarks, entrepreneurship and the need for Europe to assume its role as a tech hub.
Altman met with developers in a closed-door session moderated by IE School of Science and Technology Dean Ikhlaq Sidhu. Afterwards, he participated in a broad-ranging panel on AI and ChatGPT, moderated by Joe Haslam, IE University professor and Executive Director of the Owners Scaleup Program; Mo Bavarian, Open AI Research Scientist, and Elena González-Blanco, IE University professor and co-founder and CEO of Clibrain.
“It’s on you to make this a tech hub,” he said to an IE Tower auditorium packed with the developers, students, professors and entrepreneurs. “All the raw ingredients are here.”
Altman urged responsibility and regulation for what he called “the most enabling technology that humanity has ever seen” and highlighted that ChatGPT grew because “we built a company inside an R&D lab, not the other way around. It’s an important difference.”
Students from the School of Science and Technology’s Robotics and AI lab had to chance to meet briefly with Altman, who encouraged them and shared pointers on AI projects.
“Having Sam Altman come to speak at our university and being able to ask him questions is an honor and an important opportunity,” said student Gabriel de Olaguibel, studying the Bachelor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.