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A knock on a professor's door in 2003 starts a chain reaction that no one knows how to stop. --- Thank you to the following authors for their excellent books/reporting that I could not have made this video without. Cade Metz: Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World (2021) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CD1M43L Keach Hagey - The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future (2025) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSLVRQ2N Karen Hao: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI (2025) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQSQKMY4 HP Newquist: The Brain Makers: The History of Artificial Intelligence - Genius, Ego, And Greed in The Quest For Machines That Think (1994) https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Makers-Artificial-Intelligence-Machines-ebook/dp/B08MT5S8LP Zvi Mowshowitz: Don't Worry About the Vase blog https://thezvi.substack.com Garrison Lovely: Obsolete.Pub blog https://www.obsolete.pub/ Regis Behmo: his blog post documenting ECCV 2012 painted the picture of the AlexNet reveal https://minutebutterfly.com/deep-learning-computer-vision/ Countless other reporters for Wired, WSJ, NYT, The Atlantic, MIT Technology Review, The Verge, TechCrunch, and so on. The court documents heavily cited throughout this video come from the ongoing lawsuit between Elon Musk and Sam Altman/OpenAI, Musk v. Altman, which goes to trial on April 27, 2026. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69013420/musk-v-altman/ --- TIMESTAMPS/CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 01:11 Geoffrey Hinton 03:09 The First AI War 10:39 Ilya and Deep Belief Nets 18:59 AlexNet 30:44 AlexNet Aftermath 34:11 OpenAI 45:05 Scaling Laws 52:37 ChatGPT 57:12 The Coup 1:03:30 Outro --- GENERAL NOTES: This video isn't meant to be a polemic about AI safety or governance. Ilya and Hinton are just very interesting people. --- ABOUT THIS CHANNEL: I do long-form documentary-style videos about stuff I'm interested in.