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I mean, Sam Altman is just one of the founders and the CEO of OpenAI - so yeah, what does he know.

• ohgodplsno 6y ago
  Legitimately, not a lot. Musk is a founder too, and no, he doesn't know anything about AI. The few actually technical people in there (Schulman, Sutskever, Zaramba) are the ones that know their stuff, yes. Musk, Altman, Brockman are basically nothing more than hype men with tech connections.
  • londons_explore 6y ago
    Careful with the tone of your response. Calling someone 'nothing more than a hype man' goes beyond constructive criticism of someone's behaviour...
    • ohgodplsno 6y ago
      That tone is very much wanted. It's not a criticism. It's what they are. And that's perfectly fine, they don't all need to bring a PhD to the table. But as it stands, in the context of AI knowledge, Altman and Musk are hype men for OpenAI. Yes, they probably handle financials, or set targets. But they're not indispensable to the well functioning of an AI company.
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  • gkoberger 6y ago
    While maybe not as experienced in AI as some other people on the team, the people you mentioned have managed to secure $2bn+ in financing, brought together a group of incredible talented people in the field, and gave them a protected environment to build and experiment. Something like this requires a lot of different skills. There's probably zero companies out there where the CEO is the best engineer at the company; it requires different skills. I'll concede Musk is more of a figurehead (he's been gone for years), but Sam and Greg are incredibly involved and don't deserve your criticism.