How Hamza Mostafa Went from an Unpaid Internship to OpenAI's First Intern Cohort

Source: International Business Times

Hamza Mostafa Hamza Mostafa's path into frontier artificial intelligence did not begin with a polished resume, a famous research lab, or a direct route into Silicon Valley. Before he became part of OpenAI's first intern cohort, Mostafa was a University of Waterloo computer science student trying to break into software engineering through the same uncertain process many students face: applying widely, getting rejected, and looking for any opportunity that could become a starting point. His first software internship was unpaid.