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1. fnbr+r1[view] [source] 2023-01-21 23:13:55
>>VirusN+(OP)
Presumably he did a really good job running OpenAI- it’s not like it was pre-destined to become the company it is today.
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2. optima+h2[view] [source] 2023-01-21 23:18:44
>>fnbr+r1
>it’s not like it was pre-destined to become the company it is today

A billion dollars, Ilya Sutskever as chief scientist, and some of the most brilliant young minds in ML.

I say it was.

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3. iorrus+J2[view] [source] 2023-01-21 23:21:11
>>optima+h2
Yeah he doesn’t even seem like the kind of person that would connect well with a lot of talented ML researchers.
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