Bob McGrew
13 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2023 by Bob McGrew · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Aug 18, 2023 positive
McGrew on Palantir CEO Karp's rule: Great engineers are artists
“And I remember, you know, carp always used to talk about this, that the best engineers were artists, right? And if you want to keep an engineer happy, what you actually have to do is just let him do his art, just get out of his way, let him do his thing.”
Aug 18, 2023 bullish
McGrew: It is very hard to bet against Nvidia in AI hardware
“I think what everybody has seen so far is that Nvidia has just been able to continually do better and better and better because they have, you know, the big market and a lot of capital to throw at it. So I think it's pretty hard to bet against Nvidia.”
Aug 18, 2023 neutral
Aug 18, 2023 positive
McGrew: Nobody but creator Aditya Ramesh believed DALL-E would work
“There's this researcher, Aditya Ramesh. He built a model called DALI, which allowed you to take a description and build an image out of it. He spent two years working on that. Wow. For most of those two years, no one other than him believed it would work.”
Aug 18, 2023 positive
Aug 18, 2023 neutral
McGrew: GPT-3 and GPT-4 must be prompted to act smart or dumb
“Well, that's actually one of the cool things that we've discovered with GPT-III and GPT-IV, Is that the model, so the models are trained on the internet and they're reading everything, right? Then they try to act like what they've seen, right? They're predicti…”
Aug 18, 2023 bearish
McGrew: GPT-5 will render current AI infrastructure solutions completely obsolete
“I'm always a little worried about the infrastructure work, because I think, you know, you're solving the problems as they exist today, and when GPD 4.5 and GPD five come out, you know, they're gonna have fundamentally different use cases and fundamentally diff…”
Aug 18, 2023
McGrew: AI bias mitigation should prioritize workplace professionalism over political correctness
“And so I think a lot of, like near-term safety, a lot of these discussions about bias, like they really are about the fact that the model has learned all of these things, which it's learned a lot of true facts, it's learned a lot of things that are inaccurate,…”
Aug 18, 2023 positive
Aug 18, 2023 positive
Aug 18, 2023 neutral
McGrew: OpenAI uses thousands of human trainers scoring prompts to counter model bias
“Well, there's actually thousands of AI trainers behind the scenes who are, you know, we, we're, we give them prompts and they have to score the prompts. And so, you know, I think for better or worse, they bring their biases to it, but we try to make it so the …”
Aug 18, 2023 bullish
Aug 18, 2023 neutral
McGrew: AI scaling will ultimately be constrained by power and chips
“You know, the interesting thing about AI is, in the end, it's going to be limited by things like power. You know, if you're, and, you know, chips, and if you're trying to build these really massive clusters in 10 years or whatever.”