AI researcher

also referred to as: ai researchers

8 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 5, 2024 by Yi Tay · across every show →

Everything said about AI researcher, oldest first

Jul 5, 2024 negative
Insight
Tay: Frontier AI researchers cannot maintain standard nine-to-five work-life balance
“You cannot be, like, checking out on, like, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and, like, work at, like, nine to five if you want to, like, Make progress, or like, some people are just so good at detaching, like, ok, like, you know, like, eight pm, I'm not going to, my…”
Yi Tay Jul 5, 2024 ▶ 38:49 The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
Jul 5, 2024 neutral
Insight
Yi Tay: AI researchers should stay framework-agnostic instead of mastering one stack
“I don't think there's any specific thing. In fact, I will try to be as, like, agnostic, like, I don't, like, I don't really say, like, okay, you need to learn JAX, you need to learn this, by the time you finish learning, there's a new framework out, anyway. So…”
Yi Tay Jul 5, 2024 ▶ 40:34 The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Morcos: Top AI researchers' secret to success is looking at the data
“If you talk to the most talented AI researchers and you ask them, what's the secret to your success, they'll largely tell you that they look at the data.”
Ari Morcos Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 11:07 Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
Sep 8, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taskaya: Model architectures will keep churning due to researcher novelty bias
“I think the architecture is going to keep changing until this, like, paradigm of, like, you know, researchers changing stuff for the sake of changing, you know, finishes.”
Batuhan Taskaya Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 27:10 A Technical History of Generative Media
Nov 6, 2025 positive
Insight
Chan: Connecting AI researchers to wet-lab data collectors improves AI models
“Data is not just data. You guys know this, like you need to know sort of how the data was collected and from where and being able to connect the AI researchers to the folks who are actually gathering the data on a daily basis makes their work better.”
Priscilla Chan Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 9:39 Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases
Nov 8, 2025 positive
Opinion
Ravisankar: Forward deployed engineer is the hottest tech role after AI researcher
“The hottest role right now, other than AI researcher is probably forward deployed engineers who are now like in, in like go to market.”
Vivek Ravisankar Nov 8, 2025 ▶ 45:26 ⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
Dec 16, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Pliny: AI labs lack enough researchers to explore latent space alone
“They don't have enough researchers to explore the entire latent space on their own. And so I think many hands make light work”
Pliny the Liberator Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 19:03 ⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Insight
Yi Tay: Independent research taste is a stronger hiring signal than execution
“If somebody comes up with something and then does something that you feel that is very tasteful and it aligns with what Like researchers in the labs, like one, and they come up with that independently, you know that the function that is good, right? Like if yo…”
Yi Tay Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 1:27:50 Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
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