- Hello Lex, I'm wondering if you recall what was the initial spark or inspiration that drove you towards work in AI? Was it when you were pretty young or was it in more recent years? - So I wanted to become a psychiatrist. I wanted to, I thought of it as kind of engineering the human mind by sort of manipulating it.

I thought that's what I thought of psychiatry is by using words to sort of explore the depths of the mind and be able to adjust it. But then I realized that psychiatry can't actually do that. And modern psychiatry is more about sort of bioengineering is drugs. And so sort of, I thought that the way to really explore the engineering of the mind is the other side is to build it.

And that's also when C++ really became the cool hot thing. So I learned to program at 12 and then never look back hundreds of thousands of lines later. Just, I love program. I love building. And that's to me is the best way to understand the mind is to build it.

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