This is plausible, Elon is a fantastic recruiter and he recruited Ilya for OpenAI. There are reports of xAI buying enormous numbers of GPUs and Elon's level of control of his companies means that Ilya recklessness isn't an issue.

It's a match. Probably the best match possible.

> Ilya recklessness...

This allegation calls for more context.

Seems like Elon recklessness is an issue since he's a drug addict who's only started an AI company because he thought the other ones weren't racist enough.

I come to HN for the quality of the discussions, please don't comment like this.

I'm sorry to inform you but constantly doing ketamine makes you paranoid and racist, which makes you bad at running a tech company.

Grok was explicitly built to not be woke, but of course still ended up pretty woke. That's because LLMs come out liberal by default, since the internet is liberal, whereas racists often think they're secretly right and the AI has been "censored" to shut it up.

I'm not sure if I agree, but I much prefer this comment to your previous one. Cheers!

Elon would get out the corner he's in now easily

Elon poached Ilya into OpenAI so I'm sure he will be happy to have him around.

If we truly live in the "most entertainig outcome" timeline, this is definitely what's going to happen.

I want this to happen so much now that I heard about it.

Musk involvement was with the money. I really doubt he researched enough to know who Ilya was at the time.

Incorrect, he led a recruiting battle for Ilya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nORLckDnmg&t=75s

Didn't need all that research. Musk was friends with Larry Page, as Google was leading AI research they were bound to have conversations about the smartest researchers in the team.

Also, you underestimate Elon Musk if you think he's not capable of researching specialists in the fields he is interested in, I believe many people are hellbent on attributing all his successes to dumb luck rather than any sort of competence.

Yep. It's amazing to see how quickly people start denying reality when they don't like someone's beliefs/behavior.

I could acknowledge that a hypothetical smart, woke, furry, trans, porn-addicted programmer that regularly makes great FOSS contributions is intelligent and capable while still disliking their beliefs/behavior.

Separate the "art" from the "artist."

You're right. Being friends with CEOs has a lot of perks. I gotta hand it to Musk, his personality is such that people are eager to give him intelligence on things.