People are busting their ass to publish papers in NeurIPS before graduating from undergrad just to have a chance to work in ML.
Here we have a CEO of the world's most major AI company with a degree....*check notes* bachelor of mechanical engineering from Colby college.
Yes.
But "the haves" like to pretend its not in order to make it seem like everything's "fair".
Goeff Hinton's 1986 backpropagation research paper is like 4 pages.
Nowaday this is called a brain-fart.