Many physicists, including Schulman, Fedus, Amodei and Kaplan, jumped from physics to ML
tszzl · x · 2026-09-24
Commentator tszzl observes that many physics-trained researchers concluded that working on machine learning would create more scientific progress than staying in physics — including much of the original ChatGPT crew like John Schulman, Liam Fedus, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Jared Kaplan.
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