Many think Alec is an exception; more non-PhD researchers at OpenAI: - Chris Olah: interpretability, co-founded Anthropic - Jason Wei: Chain of Thought (CoT) & o1 & o3 - Greg Brockman: RL, codes like a beast I heard degrees do not matter, skills... See more

Research, as a discipline, is a valuable public service. If you’re interested in pursuing a question that nobody else has answered to your satisfaction, I encourage you to give it a shot. I think a lot of people are discouraged from doing this because it doesn’t fit into a clear career path outside of academia. But there’s no shortage of... See more