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Would be interested to hear about his role at Open AI - I would have thought you'd need at least a PhD in Statistics/CS to be able to contribute to AI research,

Would be interested to hear about his role at Open AI - I would have thought you'd need at least a PhD in Statistics/CS to be able to contribute to AI research, no?

wasd 10y ago
He's written a post about how he defined CTO role at Stripe (http://blog.gregbrockman.com/figuring-out-the-cto-role-at-stripe http://blog.gregbrockman.com/figuring-out-the-cto-role-at-st...). I imagine he'll approaching the role similarly.
eachro 10y ago
I imagine a guy as talented as him(published papers on combinatorics in undergrad) would have no trouble learning all the things necessary to contribute to AI research.
j2kun 10y ago
I'm sure a big part of it is who you know.
gdb 10y ago
In the earliest days, I was doing everything required to make sure everyone else could focus on research: recruiting, operations, spinning up the cluster, taking out the garbage; really whatever needed to be done. There's a surprising amount of traditional engineering work needed to make AI systems happen. Over the past month or two, I've focused largely on launching OpenAI Gym: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/726099677716713472 https://twitter.com/gdb/status/726099677716713472. That being said, I'm planning on working on a research project next. As Ilya likes to say, deep learning is a shallow field — it's actually relatively easy to pick up and start making contributions.
- throwaway6497 10y ago
  Greg, I don't know you. It is pretty incredible reading the blog post and what you have signed up to do. Kudos to Sama for the vision, and all the amazing people you were able to get together for the shared mission. Making the org non-profit is the right model for this. It is all the more surprising given that the whole VC model is to make profit. I am curious to see what you guys come up with. All the best.
  - throwaway6497 10y ago
    This comment at best should be neutral. Why the down voting. Just curious.

Would be interested to hear about his role at Open AI - I would have thought you'd need at least a PhD in Statistics/CS to be able to contribute to AI research, no?

wasd 10y ago

He's written a post about how he defined CTO role at Stripe (http://blog.gregbrockman.com/figuring-out-the-cto-role-at-stripe http://blog.gregbrockman.com/figuring-out-the-cto-role-at-st...). I imagine he'll approaching the role similarly.

eachro 10y ago

I imagine a guy as talented as him(published papers on combinatorics in undergrad) would have no trouble learning all the things necessary to contribute to AI research.

j2kun 10y ago

I'm sure a big part of it is who you know.

gdb 10y ago

In the earliest days, I was doing everything required to make sure everyone else could focus on research: recruiting, operations, spinning up the cluster, taking out the garbage; really whatever needed to be done. There's a surprising amount of traditional engineering work needed to make AI systems happen. Over the past month or two, I've focused largely on launching OpenAI Gym: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/726099677716713472 https://twitter.com/gdb/status/726099677716713472. That being said, I'm planning on working on a research project next. As Ilya likes to say, deep learning is a shallow field — it's actually relatively easy to pick up and start making contributions.

throwaway6497 10y ago
Greg, I don't know you. It is pretty incredible reading the blog post and what you have signed up to do. Kudos to Sama for the vision, and all the amazing people you were able to get together for the shared mission. Making the org non-profit is the right model for this. It is all the more surprising given that the whole VC model is to make profit. I am curious to see what you guys come up with. All the best.
- throwaway6497 10y ago
  This comment at best should be neutral. Why the down voting. Just curious.