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Sam Altman is not one of those people. But other founders certainly felt that way.
by thereitgoes456 3mo ago
Sam Altman is not one of those people. But other founders certainly felt that way.
- ifwinterco 3mo agoSam Altman doesn't really know all that much about LLMs, he's a sales/marketing guy, not technical. So it doesn't really matter what he thinks
- epohs 3mo agoExcept for the uncomfortable fact that he controls the salary and job status of the people who do know much about LLMs.
- emodendroket 3mo agoOK. So? Would you say Harry Truman was a nuclear scientist?
- defrost 3mo agoFranklin D. Roosevelt is a better fit for an administrative nuclear program "founder" analogy. Truman was totally in the dark until April 1945 by which time the bulk of the PoC and weapons prep work was done and the project was running fully independently w/o POTUS involvement.
- emodendroket 3mo agoYet the guys in the lab coats worked for him.
- defrost 3mo agoNot for the bulk of the Manhattan project and not all the people in lab coats .. the intellectual founders that repeatedly pushed for the project and demonstrated feasibility weren't even US citizens.
- emodendroket 3mo agoI picked the guy whose contribution was smaller on purpose to highlight the hollowness of the claim about “controlling the careers” of people who understand what’s going on.
- AbstractH24 3mo agoThose are the folks who run the industry