Mira was a PM who somehow was at the right place at the right time. She isn’t actually an AI expert. Ilya however, is. I find him to be more credible and deserving in terms of research investment. That said, I agree that revenue is important and he will need a good partner (another company maybe) to turn ideas into revenue at some point. But maybe the big players like Google will just acquire them on no revenue to get access to the best research, which they can then turn into revenue.

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fragmede 11 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s kind of a shitty way to put it. Mira wasn’t a PM at OpenAI. She was CTO and before that VP of Engineering. Prior to OpenAI she was an engineer at Tesla on the Model X and Leap Motion. You’re right that she’s not a published ML researcher like Ilya, but "right place, right time" undersells leading the team that shipped ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4.

	▲	Nextgrid 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“CTO” during ZIRP means nothing to be fair. You could put a monkey in front of a typewriter in that environment and still get a 50% chance of success, by the success metric of the time which was just “engagement” instead of profits. If you’re playing with infinite money it’s hard to lose.