I have not paid much attention to Altman
before the shocking sequences of events
recently.
I did not know much about the structure of
OpenAI eiter.
I have followed what they have made available
to the public and that has been quite interesting.
I have certainly noticed Altman being a most popular
figure in the media (or often invited to speak at least)
and an all-around genius.
When it comes to cutting edge research and development
of AI I think that involves a hell of a lot of math that
I probably could not understand.
I have a lot of PhD and post doc level research.
Being naive I figured the entire C* stack at OpenAI
held PhDs in related fields.
I was thus surprised to read that Altman and another
co-founder both dropped out of prestigious university
early on in their degrees.
I discovered that the CTO had a bachelors but seemed to have
started her career in quite a different field.
Now a -LOT- of founders are the same way.
Thinking about it know if to onder if not the majority of
founders are.
I can follow what Bill Gates and Woziak did.
Though clearly I lack their genius.
I am not able to follow AI research papers at all.
Altman must have hired a lot of outstanding people to execute his vision.
and is that the most important quality he brings to OpenAI?
A vision and a drive and ability to execute?
Or is he a self-thought genius who can get into the trenches at a
theoretic level?
Or am I overcomplicating the skills and education needed to produce
GPT (among other things)
Filed under "Naughtiness" at http://paulgraham.com/founders.html