| ▲ | thereitgoes456 2 days ago |
| Sam Altman is not one of those people. But other founders certainly felt that way. |
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| ▲ | ifwinterco 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | AbstractH24 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Those are the folks who run the industry | |
| ▲ | epohs 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Except for the uncomfortable fact that he controls the salary and job status of the people who do know much about LLMs. | | |
| ▲ | emodendroket 2 days ago | parent [-] | | OK. So? Would you say Harry Truman was a nuclear scientist? | | |
| ▲ | defrost 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | emodendroket 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Yet the guys in the lab coats worked for him. | | |
| ▲ | defrost 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Not 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 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I 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. |
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