Sam Altman: "I think if you have a smart person who has learned to do good research and has the right sort of mindset, it only takes about six months to make them, you know, take a smart physics researcher and make them into a productive AI researcher. So we don't have enough talent in the field yet, but it's coming soon. We have a program at open AI that does exactly this. And I'm astonished how well it works."
- Software Engineer (not the focus of this Gist): Build customer-facing features, optimize applications for speed and scale, use AI APIs. Prompt engineering expertise is generally helpful, but AI experience beyond using the APIs or using ChatGPT like an expert is generally not needed. This Gist isn't aimed at this role.
- Machine Learning Engineer: Build pipelines for data management, model training, and model deployment, to improve models (not the focus of this Gist). And/or implement cutting-edge research papers (a focus of this Gist).
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