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What's wrong with that statement though? It's the AI era - VCs are going crazy funding AI startups. What makes you think Greg and Sam would have a hard time ra
by alsodumb 3y ago
What's wrong with that statement though?
It's the AI era - VCs are going crazy funding AI startups. What makes you think Greg and Sam would have a hard time raising millions/billions and starting a new company in a week if they want to?
- bmitc 3y agoHow will they come up with the idea? One is an investor and the other is an infrastructure software engineer.
- alsodumb 3y agoWhat idea are you talking about? They are not your classic founders coming up with an idea to join Y combinator. They build OpenAI for many years, they know what to do. It won't be hard for them to hire researchers and engineers, from OpenAI or other places. Questions like this makes me wonder if you are a troll. I won't continue this thread.
- bayindirh 3y agoBeing able to hire researchers and, even the top talent doesn't guarantee that they'll be the top company or even succeed at what they're building. This is what I referred as "Cargo Cult AI". You can get the money, but money is not the only ingredient needed to make things happen. edit: Looks like they won't have a brand new company next week, but joining an existing one.
- xcv123 3y agoNothing can guarantee that. Investors always accept risk. He has a better chance than some other random guy who was not the CEO of OpenAI.
- bayindirh 3y agoLet's see whether Satya Nadella's bet on that risk will pay or not. Chance is a "biased random" in the real world. Let's see whether his bias is strong enough to make a difference.
- xcv123 3y agoAre you talking about OpenAI or about Sam Altman's hypothetical new company? OpenAI already had the best technology fully developed and in production when Microsoft invested in them. I believe "cargo cult" means something quite different to how you're using it. It's not "cargo cult" to consider someone's CV when you hire them for a new job. Sam Altman ran a successful AI company before and he most likely can do it again if provided enough support and resources.
- bayindirh 3y ago> Are you talking about OpenAI or about Sam Altman's hypothetical new company? About him and Greg joining to Microsoft. > I believe "cargo cult" means something quite different to how you're using it. I don't think so. Tribes believed that building wooden air strips or planes would bring the goods they have seen during wartime. People believe that bringing Altman will bring the same thing (OpenAI as is) exactly where it's left off. Altman is just tip of the iceberg. Might have some catalyst inside him, but he's not the research itself or the researcher himself.
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- xcv123 3y agoOpenAI did not invent the transformer architecture. It was not their original research, but they implemented it well. Sam Altman led the company that implemented and executed it. Deep learning is not a secret. It just needs a lot of resources to be executed properly. OpenAI doesn't have any secret methods unknown to the rest of the AI community. They have strong engineering and execution. It is certainly within the CEO's power to influence that.
- ChatGTP 3y agoCase in point: Google and Bard.