Comment by andy99
3 years ago
Ideas and money are cheap and plentiful. Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.
3 years ago
Ideas and money are cheap and plentiful. Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.
The ideas that led to OpenAI’s technologies were not plentiful. They were the product of a handful of brilliant researchers, who correctly structured OpenAI to prevent them from being co-opted by people who are incapable of ever having them.
Got a citation for him DOING anything other than talking?
> Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.
when has he "executed"?
he seems to have had four jobs:
1. a failed startup founder 1. a YC person handing out other people's money 1. openai ceo 1. a horrific cryptocurrency grift
which do you feel he "executed" so impressively on?
What ventures has he executed successfully?
OpenAI obviously.
You can't argue that the company has not been impressively run and not just because of the quality of the models.
As far as I can tell his tenure was marked by interpersonal conflict with most of the key players, after which he was suddenly fired amid allegations he was using his role as head of a non profit to advance his own personal interests.
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He didn't built OpenAI, which he wasn't a founder of either. By the time he came on as CEO in 2019, they had already built GPT-2, and GPT-3 was likely already well on its way, as it would be released only around a year later.
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