Jerry Tworek (ex-VP of Research, OpenAI — now CEO, Core Automation) on the two years his idea sat unfunded, and the one sentence that changed it
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TL;DR: Jerry Tworek's own two-year stall didn't end with more proof. It ended with one sentence. He'd already built the thesis — pushing reinforcement learning against GPT-3 before there was budget or backing for it. The math worked in pieces. It just never scaled. Then his chief scientist looked a…
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Jerry Tworek (ex-VP of Research, OpenAI — now CEO, Core Automation) on the two years his idea sat unfunded, and the one sentence that changed it
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