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He likes to be away from the lime light. Here is the last interview I found: https://youtu.be/gwzwkv2hO5k https://youtu.be/gwzwkv2hO5k
by nomadic-coder 2y ago
He likes to be away from the lime light. Here is the last interview I found: https://youtu.be/gwzwkv2hO5k https://youtu.be/gwzwkv2hO5k
- swyx 2y agoon top of this, its quite common that first authors are the "most junior people on the team who did the bulk of the work but may not have the broader perspective/longer career" (these are usually the last authors). While AlexNet was his top single contribution, both Ilya and Geoff had much more other contributions and longer lived careers so the fame is kind of self fulfilling there (both in that he doesnt seem to have wanted it but also didn't keep up publishing groundbreaking stuff). Alec Radford is in a similar vein in that he likes to keep a low profile, but he is subjectively much more famous in AI circles because he continued to work on things like GPT2/3, DallE, CLIP, PPO, Scaling laws, RLHF beyond just dropping GPT1 and peacing out