I agree re PhD skillsets (though think that some fraction of people gain a lot of high value skills during a PhD, esp re research taste and agenda settings).
I think you’re way overrating OpenAI though—in particular, Anthropic’s early employees/founders include more than half of the GPT-3 first authors!! I think the company has become much more oriented around massive distributed LLM training runs in the last few years though, so maybe your inference that people would gain those skills is more reasonable now.
I agree re PhD skillsets (though think that some fraction of people gain a lot of high value skills during a PhD, esp re research taste and agenda settings).
I think you’re way overrating OpenAI though—in particular, Anthropic’s early employees/founders include more than half of the GPT-3 first authors!! I think the company has become much more oriented around massive distributed LLM training runs in the last few years though, so maybe your inference that people would gain those skills is more reasonable now.