AI scaling
5 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 15, 2024 by Dwarkesh Patel · across every show →
Everything said about AI scaling, oldest first
May 15, 2024 neutral
Tech giants should concentrate capital into a single frontier lab
“The thing with AI is if you buy scaling in this picture, that is, you make the models bigger, they get much smarter. Then I don't think it makes sense to hedge your bets in this way. I think you should just double down, give, give one of them a hundred billion…”
May 15, 2024 bullish
AI scaling will not mysteriously halt halfway through the range of human intelligence
“It would just be bizarre to me that, like, you're halfway through the human range of intelligence, and now it stops getting better, so I do sympathize with Sam's statement in the sense of, like, why would it stop here, right? If it was gonna stop, why, it woul…”
Jul 30, 2025 bullish
Amodei: Continual learning will be solved by scaling and new methods
“Without being too specific you know, I think, and we already have maybe some, you know, some evidence to suggest that this is another of those problems that is, is not as difficult as it seems. That will fall to scale Plus a slightly different way of thinking …”
Jul 30, 2025 bullish
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Hassabis: AI Has Significant Headroom Using Existing Architectures and Data
“Actually it turns out you can wring more more juice out of the existing Architectures and data. So there's plenty of room, I think, and we're still seeing that in both the pre-training, the post-training, and the thinking paradigms, and also the way that they …”