OpenAI's Research Chief On The Soup Wars, Poker And The Next Models - EP 46 Mark Chen
One must not feel sorry for Mark Chen. He gets paid very well to work in one of the most exciting fields imaginable.
That said, as OpenAI’s Chief Research Officer, he has the difficult job of picking the company’s research priorities and of dealing with OpenAI’s employees begging him for more, more, more GPUs to power their work. This is a hectic gig, and, if you believe that AI will do all the things that AI companies promise it will do, then an awful lot of pressure and expectation is on Chen’s shoulders.
We recently spent almost two hours with Chen talking about his job, his background and…
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