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Interesting, to move from an Elon-Musk-chaired non-profit to an Elon-Musk-owned for-profit.

• komaromy 9y ago
  Also, this is very impressive for someone who finished his PhD less than two years ago.
  • glial 9y ago
    He is one of a very few PhD students whose work I'd heard of and followed before they graduated. He had a great & informative blog, too.
  • Aron 9y ago
    Yeah, it's always nice to see people overcome this particular handicap.
• skadamat 9y ago
  I don't think he ever intended to stay at OpenAI long to be honest. He was a founding scientist of the nonprofit, so think he went there to do his time before he found an interesting opportunity (either in academia because he just finished his PhD or in industry)
• unityByFreedom 9y ago
  Open AI was always a pipeline for Musk. Use other people's donations to attract and identify the talent, then move them under his payroll. I guess that's a win win for the employees and for Musk. Not sure how many other supporters Open AI has, though I doubt that's what they had in mind when they donated to support that effort.
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  • jfoster 9y ago
    Worth noting that OpenAI may not otherwise exist. It mightn't be precisely ideal, but I think it's broadly a 3-way win.
    • unityByFreedom 9y ago
      Their mission, to add more open source tools to the ai space, is already being accomplished by for-profit companies like Google and Facebook. If it weren't attached to Musk, and if Tesla never hired from them, I'd agree it's good to have a non-profit in the mix. As it is, if it looks and acts like a pipeline for talent, it's a pipeline for talent.
  • nsturis 9y ago
    It's not like Musk doesn't donate to OpenAI himself..
    • unityByFreedom 9y ago
      That he spends money to find talent for his own company isn't so surprising. He's just done it in a new, slightly abstract way
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