I think that there is some kind of elitism around AI researchers. Yes they are very valuable, but someone helping everyone else be more productive is absolutely critical.
Having a car might be critical and acquiring a car might be expensive, but there are a lot of them and they are ultimately replaceable. If yours is lost and you still have cash, you can generally go find a new one the same day and borrow a ride from someone if you really need to.
That's not necessarily true for (say) the rare high-end graphics board you use for running local inferences. It's also expensive -- even less expensive than the car -- but replacing it can be a bigger deal and cause a complete interruption.
There are countless experienced late-career generalists who can keep projects moving by contributing to critical, smart support. I'm one of them. We're extremely valuable indeed.
But there really are far fewer people who were ahead of the curve and years-deep into the AI research central to OpenAI's entire existence. Those people are beyond critical, they're essential.
That doesn't make them better people, or smarter people, or in any other way elite. It just means that in the context of OpenAI those people are much harder to come by and can be much more disruptive when lost.
Apologies, I'm afraid I wasn't very awake reading your comment. You're right, my issue is more about the dismissive attitude that I often see: for some reason I mistook you as someone having that attitude as well.
The problem is that it might unfortunately be necessary to have this kind of funding to be able to develop AGI. And funding will not come if there are no incentives for the investors to fund.
What was it he did wrong during Covid?
Honest question I usually pay little attention
the guy
Being old and having lived through Evil Gates,
when he made a lot of hostile and legally dubois
things to ensure of the growth and safety from
competitors, I lived in a bubble that he was one
of the worst people in tech.
Seeing how now only knew the smiling "philanthropist"
who comments on having solutions to all sorts of world
problems it seems like a big bubble really do like him now.
I exaggerated by claiming "all", I could have said "many"
and it would be a more accurate statement.
Don't jump on the assumption that you have ADHD. Get it diagnosed by a competent professional if you want to be sure. But even then, I feel like a lot of people get diagnosed with ADHD (or self diagnosed) while they probably don't have it (mostly in America is my impression).
Instead, it might simply be related to your personnality. I tend to be like you, and for me it is simply that finishing all the little details at the end of a project get boring and the new and grand ideas are more exciting.
Some suggestions:
Surrounding yourself with people who are good at finishing stuff can help, especially if it's on the same project.
Cycle between projects: when project A becomes boring, does project B become interesting again ?
Filter things to get the things that you're the most excited about and focus on the those instead. I found the book "Essentialism" to be particularly helpful for me in that regard.
Check for patterns: what are the commonalities between the projects that you are interested in ? Try to find what really gets your excited.
Finally, this is perhaps more controversial, but I recommend looking into the 4 sides of the mind theories by C.S Joseph on YouTube: your personnality type might be ESFJ-ESFP-ENTP-ENFP, and learning to leverage your psychology instead of going against it can help. It's similar to MBTI but less.. horoscope like in my opinion. Maybe the big 5 model also has something interesting to say in that area if you're more comfortable with something less novel but more accepted within psychology.
For me, learning about my strengths and weaknesses is something I found extremely useful.
