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Comment by ifwinterco

3 days ago

Sam 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

Except for the uncomfortable fact that he controls the salary and job status of the people who do know much about LLMs.

  • OK. So? Would you say Harry Truman was a nuclear scientist?

    • Franklin 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.

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