Unleashing My Natural Ambition: My Journey into AI

6 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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A short first-person excerpt from a YouTube video where the speaker (Charles Cormier) reflects on lifelong ambition, childhood activities (piano, violin, taekwondo, track), and the need to channel drive—noting that entry into AI happened largely by accident. The passage frames ambition as an intrinsic calling and lists formative extracurriculars.

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I think, you know, ambition for me is not something I do. It's kind of a natural calling. You know, when I was younger, I was determined, you know, to get straight A's and be the president of all these clubs. And, you know, I really pursued a lot of art. My parents enrolled me in piano, violin, and a lot of instruments outside of kind of academics. And then I also did taekwondo and track and all these kind of things. So I like to be able to just focus it somewhere, otherwise it'll eat me. As I say, why AI I actually, you know, most of my career I got into as an accident, kind of like how old discovery sometimes happens.