> "I hate to say this, because it sounds so arrogant, before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley co

> "I hate to say this, because it sounds so arrogant, before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley company?" he said.' Theranos! > Where does he think they got the Transformer paper from, or even the PyTorch and H100 GPU's they use? He's hallucinating. OpenAI is not a scientific breakthrough any more than Theranos was. It's just a commercial service that creates a pipeline out of other people's scientific breakthroughs. The opacity of it should obviate any claim of it being scientific; for all we know, the backend is a bullpen of librarians chained to workstations. He's also glossing over the ethics of outsourcing moderation to desperate Africans, which would raise some flags in a truly-scientific context.