[short-fuse 💣] Does my mom know who Sam Altman is?

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Considering almost none of my friends knew, I think it's very unlikely

I think Sam Altman is much more of a household name than we think. I asked my students who Andrej Karpathy was, and I think 2/40 knew. Then I asked if they knew who Sam Altman was, and they all laughed as if it was a ridiculous question and everyone knew. Ofc, biased sample, but still.

I just asked a table of people at a dinner which included: My parents (one doctor and one retired but very interested in politics) A software dev intern Director at Deloitte 1 nurse 1 admin health No one had any idea whatsoever. I was very surprised.

I’m calling my mom around 1pm ET today! Final call

I’ve done this type of market once before (attached below), and my mom said she’d be willing to do it again. Does my mom know who Sam Altman is?

I will call my mom on Sunday and ask her a simple question, “Mom, who is Sam Altman?”. If she says, “The CEO of OpenAI”, easy YES. If she says, “I have no idea”, easy NO. Any other factoid she may give will give partial credit (I won’t be betting here as this is subjective).

How much of a household name is SamA?

Some facts that may influence your betting:

My mom turns 70 next year, and has been a classical musician for her whole professional life.
She watches ABC local [Philly] and national news every morning and evening.
I wouldn’t say she knows much about tech, though I work for a fairly large tech company (not OpenAI). She does know who Elon Musk is, and hates him (though my dad recently bought a Tesla).

Previous market, where my mom IMMEDIATELY got “Travis Kelce’s team” for the Chiefs:

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