Sam Altman’s escape from the Silicon Valley pack is a sprawling farm at the end of a road that snakes through the vine-swept hills in Napa Valley. I spot the 40-year-old with slightly tousled hair in the open-plan kitchen of the wide bay-windowed house, and I step right in. His bemused look tells me that I wasn’t expected. I am, it turns out, nearly an hour early, but the man behind ChatGPT will finish up a meeting and join me in the garden. I wait under a grapevine-shaded pergola that runs along the house.
萨姆•奥尔特曼(Sam Altman)远离硅谷人群的避世之地,是纳帕谷(Napa Valley)一条蜿蜒穿过葡萄藤覆盖山丘的道路尽头的一座宽阔农场。我在这座带有大落地窗的房子的开放式厨房里,看到了这位40岁、头发略显凌乱的他,便径直走了进去。他略带困惑的表情告诉我,他并没有预料到我的到来。事实证明,我提前了将近一个小时,但这位ChatGPT背后的男人答应结束手头的会议,然后在花园里与我会面。我在沿着房屋延伸、葡萄藤遮荫的凉棚下等待。