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Re:Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI by melodyogonna on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:38AM (#40363451)
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.

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Re:Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI by sniggers on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:42PM (#40369253)
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."

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Re:Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI by justanotherjoe on Friday May 17, 2024 @01:43AM (#40386752)
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.
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