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 →
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Jul 5, 2024 negative
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…”
Jul 5, 2024 neutral
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…”
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Sep 8, 2025 neutral
Nov 6, 2025 positive
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.”
Nov 8, 2025 positive
Dec 16, 2025 neutral
Jan 23, 2026 positive
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…”