Does anyone else feel this is opertunistic? While I appreciate the online course, why start firing shots at another non-profit? Seems the only realistic answer is to drum up attention.
> One significant difference is that fast.ai has not been funded with $1 billion from Elon Musk to create an elite team of researchers with PhDs from the most impressive schools who publish in the most elite journals. OpenAI, however, has.
It's because we care about our mission and want to support it and promote it. We're entirely self funded from our own personal finances, so trying to suggest we have some other purpose to our work is a little odd...
We want to bring attention to the important problems and people working to solve them, and contrast that with things that are distracting from that.
> One significant difference is that fast.ai has not been funded with $1 billion from Elon Musk to create an elite team of researchers with PhDs from the most impressive schools who publish in the most elite journals. OpenAI, however, has.