anti_dan
8hr ago
There are also plenty of OpenAI researchers at that number.
Im not really that familiar with AI hiring but that would be surprising. 1200 is an average student at a 2nd tier state school. 1200 is U of I - Chicago, not flagship campus (1400+); Michigan tech, not MI (1400+) or State (1300); University of Southern Florida, not Miami, Florida (both 1400) or FSU (high 1300).
Perhaps, I just googled "IQ score SAT equivalent". I'd guess SAT % is not exactly correlated with IQ because a lot of the dumbest kids will not have taken it. Particularly in the South and Midwest where they make the ACT a mandatory test for juniors.
Still, even 1350 doesn't seem like a top level company talent to me. I had a score 200 point higher almost 2 decades ago and didn't get into Stanford or MIT, despite a solid GPA and being a 2 sport athlete and having won multiple academic competitions quite casually. And when I graduated from a T1 state school with an engineering degree I wasn't picking between dozens of offers from FAANG (or the then equivalent) companies, I was deciding between a mediocre private sector offer or law school, again despite not being average at the state school, but being a high performer.
But perhaps OpenAI is not an elite company so I shouldn't think much on it. Or perhaps it is and they have a bunch of 120 IQ people in the place, and maybe that is why AI cant stop regurgitating middling journalist takes and fake history thats part of the official middle school curriculum.
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