Comment by winddude
6 months ago
PhDs aren't relevant. It's more just a certificate that you can learn to learn and stay committed to hard and challenging things. It does give bonus points to VCs, because it's seems to be easier to market to other VCs, same applies for hedge funds.
And with fine tuning, there's zero math needed, it's a bit of common sense, and a lot's of data optimization.
I wouldn't say that PhD's aren't relevant. Remember a lot of this subsequent "bumps, steps and leaps" advancement has come _after_ the initial work by the OpenAI's etc. "Standing on the shoulders of giants" is a thing.
and these phds used some tools developed by teenager hackers. Standing on the shoulders of giants, indeed