Many Top AI Researchers Are Physics Dropouts: Schulman, Fedus, Amodei, Kaplan
bookwormengr · x · 2026-09-24
A widely shared observation notes that many physicists concluded working on machine learning would create more scientific progress than studying physics itself—including original ChatGPT team members like John Schulman and Liam Fedus, plus Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Jared Kaplan.
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