AI researcher

“Somewhere in between those two is right. You know, I think there are at least a hundred folks that, that, that, that are, that really matter in making a lot. A lot of differences. Certainly less than 10,000 and probably a good bit less than that, if I had to g…”

“That said, I think we are psychologically biased to overestimate what that percent contribution is. And it may be the case that there's these broader macro variables, which we'll talk about, I'm sure later in this discussion, there's these broader macro variab…”

“Hundreds, and that's it.”

“Researchers really genuinely do care about pushing research forward, and I think what ends up happening sometimes is the leaders at some of these companies kind of change the direction of the company, and the researchers are no longer interested in that direct…”

“It's like the best researchers in AI, the best, the ones you need to win, they only want to work what they want to work on. And they will leave a lot of money behind.”

“And folks want the smartest folks in AI, in, in applied math and others, they only want to work on the intellectual challenges they want to work on. And if you can't deliver that, And the right boss. There's so much portability that they will just leave. And t…”

“So I think that it'll probably continue to escalate for the people that, for a smaller group of people. But I also suspect that as more people gain knowledge of how these labs operate and what the capabilities of how to train a frontier model That means that t…”

“Oftentimes, it would be in the tens of millions of stock per year.”