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Name: Hiring Hack: Why Curiosity Beats PhDs in the AI Hunger Games!
Uploaded: 2025-07-10T05:27:17+00:00
Duration: 2 min 48 s
Channel: Frank Hu

Frank Hu

6个月前

Discuss Topic：
"Would you hire a cat with curiosity or a dog with a PhD for your AI team?"

Opinion 1:
"Give me the cat! Curiosity didn't just kill the cat - it promoted it to VP of AI Innovation. PhDs are like GPS in uncharted territory: outdated by lunchtime!"

Opinion 2:
"I'll take the dog! At least when it pees on my algorithm, it can write a 10-page peer-reviewed apology. Curiosity is great until your AI starts asking 'what if we overthrow humans?' over coffee breaks!"

Bonus:
"Curious hires break things to learn. PhDs break things and bill you 5 consulting hours to explain why it's actually progress."

Opinion 1 or 2? What you think?

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00:00and there's a lot of question now about kind of what kind of skills do people need in the future

00:06you know what kind of skills do you look for on your teams i've thought about this a lot um

00:12hiring is hard especially if you want to have a small team that is very very good and humble and

00:23able to move fast etc and i think curiosity has been the number one thing that i've looked for

00:28and it's actually my advice to students when they ask me what do i do in this world where

00:32everything's changing because i mean for us there's so much that we don't know there's a

00:37certain amount of humility you have to have about building on this technology because you don't

00:41know what's valuable you don't know what's risky until you really study and go deep and and try to

00:45understand and when it comes to working with ai which you know we obviously do a lot not just in

00:50code but in kind of every facet of our work um it's asking the right questions that is the bottleneck

00:57not necessarily getting the answer so i really fundamentally believe that we need to hire people

01:01who are deeply curious about the world and what we do i care a little bit less about their experience

01:05in ai mark presumably feels a bit different about that one but for the product side uh it's been

01:10curiosity that i've found the most the best predictor of success no i mean even on research i think

01:16increasingly less uh we index on you have to have a phd in ai right i think uh this is a field that

01:23people can pick up fairly quickly i also came into the company as a resident without

01:27much formal ai training and i think correlated to what nick said i think one important thing is for

01:33our new hires to have agency right opening as a place where you're not going to get so much of a

01:39oh here's today you're going to do thing one thing two thing three um it's really about being kind of

01:45driven to find hey here's the problem you know no one else is fixing it i'm just going to go dive in

01:49and fix it um and also adaptability right it's a very fast changing environment that's just the

01:56nature of the field right now and you need to be able to quickly figure out what's important and pivot

02:00what you need to do the agency thing is is real you know i think we often get asked for you know how

02:07how does open a you know keep shipping and you know you it feels like you're pushing something out

02:12every week or something like that it's a funny because it never feels to me i always feel like you

02:17know we could go be going even faster um um but but you know i think fundamentally we just have a

02:22lot of people with agency who can ship um that comes to product that comes to research that comes

02:27to policy shipping can mean different things uh we all do very different things at open ai but i think

02:32the ratio of people who can actually do things um and you know the lack of red tape except where it

02:38matters you know the couple areas where i think red tape is very very important but you know um

02:42um i think that is what makes open ai very unique and it obviously affects the type of people who

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