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# A high school graduate studied LLM with the help of ChatGPT and got a job at OpenAI

Gabriel Petersson, who dropped out of high school, mastered artificial intelligence at the doctoral level with the help of ChatGPT and became a researcher at OpenAI. He discussed this on the Extraordinary podcast.

Petersson is currently working on the Sora project.

“Universities no longer have a monopoly on fundamental knowledge. It can be obtained through ChatGPT. You start with a problem and then recursively go down,” he said.

Peterson joined the OpenAI team in December. Before that, he worked as a programmer at Midjourney and Dataland.

In 2019, the developer dropped out of school to join a small startup. He “was forced” to learn programming out of necessity.

“We needed to create things, develop product recommendation systems, scraping, integrations,” noted the OpenAI employee.

How to Learn LLM

To understand the operation of LLM, Petersson asked ChatGPT about which project to implement, and then requested the chatbot to generate code. When errors occurred, he corrected them using the model.

Then the developer immersed himself in the specific components of the system, gradually mastering the key concepts.

“Suddenly you have all the basic knowledge, and there's no need to move from bottom to top,” he noted.

Peterson emphasized that people should focus on results rather than diplomas. This way, they can prove their worth.

“Companies just want to make money. Show them how to do it, that you can program, and they will hire you,” said an OpenAI employee.

Dropped out of school — achieved success

The rapid development of artificial intelligence opens up new opportunities for those who have dropped out of school or have just finished their education. This is mentioned in the Andreessen Horowitz blog.

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman did not finish Stanford. He “envies” the current generation of 20-year-olds who dropped out.

“Because the number of things that can be created and the opportunities in this field are incredibly vast,” said the entrepreneur.

CEO of Palantir Alex Karp believes that “everything taught in school and university about how the world works is wrong.” In April, his company launched the Meritocracy Fellowship program — a four-month paid internship for high school graduates who did not enter university.

Recall that in October, deepfakes featuring Altman flooded the new social app Sora from OpenAI.