Future of Artificial Intelligence Discussion

A Saudi man working at OpenAI.

Abdulrahman, how are you?

Welcome, you've really brightened the place.

How are you?

By God's grace.

Of course, for those who don't know OpenAI, uh, some people abbreviate it.

Maybe, yeah.

The one behind ChatGPT.

Exactly, right.

Let me put it briefly. First, may God bless your time and work. You've

been here for more than

a year and a bit.

Exactly, yeah.

There's something I'd like you and me to go see.

You're welcome.

Uh...

We took a tour of the company. I want you to tell me what that is

that's there.

Uh, yes,

this is perhaps the beginning of

the first, first AI model, ChatGPT 4.

Nice.

Around 4o. This was a gift from Jensen Huang.

Nice.

Nvidia's CEO gave this to OpenAI four years ago.

Nice.

And with it began the first training process for the first model.

First, may God bless your time and work.

Thank you.

I want to know some very quick information about the

future of AI. Of course, uh, the future of AI is very

changeable.

Right.

Uh, so can you tell me in under a minute, what does the future hold? What advice do you have

for anyone who wants to specialize in this field?

Right.

Of course, there’s a lot of talk about the future— many visions, and everyone has an idea of what they

want

to happen to them. I think I’m one of the optimistic people.

Uh, one of the things I’d like to do, for example, is spend more time with

family or on the hobbies I pursue.

Mm-hmm.

So I think AI, as a—will be an effective

tool that does things on my behalf, giving me time to do the things

I—I love doing.

Nice.

Uh, imagine the idea that, uh, work weekdays could be

four days or three days.

Nice.

I think artificial intelligence will be one of the— one of the technologies that will make this, uh—

possible.

Definitely possible.

Okay.

And, God willing, we’ll have more time for the things we love doing.

Okay, what advice do you have for anyone specializing in this field, considering that, God bless, you

work here.

Yeah, right, th— of course, there's not much room for change, honestly.

So, I mean, uh, daily,

there are almost, uh, there are, uh,

model updates, or even, uh, harnesses or, uh,

frameworks, even.

So personally, honestly, one of the— uh, things I use or benefit from

a lot

is following updates. I have AI agents,

agents,

that I designed so that they— daily,

search for the data that matters to me.

Okay, and how do we benefit from them? Uh, for someone just entering

university, what advice would you give them so they can

stand out in this field?

Exactly. I feel that the more you use them, and the more you

know how to use tools, uh, AI agents, and coding, the more

proficient you become at them. So, at first, I advise people to—

spend a lot of time on them,

so that they become, uh, uh,

proficient at them.

Okay, the university majors that—

Honestly, I used to think that computer science was the natural major,

but what I discovered from many colleagues I work with here and even in Saudi Arabia

is that the major doesn't matter as much as a person's interest and passion for using

AI tools themselves.

Study any major you want, but use AI tools so you can stay close

to this field and specialize in it.

Exactly, yes. I think it's perhaps one of the only technologies, or

the first time I've seen that

the technology itself helps you become, um, distinguished in it.

May God grant you well-being and reward you.

May God grant you success and keep you well. You've brightened the place.