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>>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.

>>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.

>>optima+h2
Yeah he doesn’t even seem like the kind of person that would connect well with a lot of talented ML researchers.

>>iorrus+J2
What does that have to do with getting a billion dollars for his chief scientist and ML researchers?

>>bnjms+e4
Well he didn’t really get that money. Sam Altman on his own couldn’t have raised 1 billion for OpenAI. He was the CEO but the money was there already. He was largely parachuted in.

I could understand why someone would buy into Musk’s vision even Gates/Jobs etc. Sam Altman seems like a very ordinary guy without any remarkable attributes.