The Origins of 'Member of the Technical Staff' at OpenAI - Former Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew

Why is it called member of the technical staff. That's a great question. For a long time, this was true even before I joined OpenAI, by the way.I believe this was Greg Brockman's uh idea. We really wanted there not to be a distinction between engineers and researchers. If you look at a classic lab, a place like Google Brain for example, where a lot of the people who started OpenAI came from at the time and maybe still today, there was a big differentiation between whether you had a PhD and you were a resear ...