Ashvin Nair
6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 30, 2025 by Ashvin Nair · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Ashvin Nair's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
Everything said about Ashvin Nair, oldest first
Dec 30, 2025 positive
Nair: Public corporate boards may govern AI more democratically than non-profit boards
“When the blip happened, one of my reactions was like, well, you know, this nonprofit board stuff, like, actually, if it takes such somewhat, like, surprising, Maybe erratic actions, like maybe you'd rather just have, like, you know, a thing like the Microsoft …”
Dec 30, 2025
Nair: Internal Slack posts replaced reading external papers at OpenAI
“Unfortunately I've like, kind of gotten the habit, especially at OpenAI, of like, not reading that much external work, and just like reading people's like, Slack posts internally. That's like the main, like, way to like, you know like, learn new stuff.”
Dec 30, 2025 bullish
Nair: Continual learning during deployment does not risk model capacity overload
“If you could learn enough about those million tokens that you're actually in deployment on I don't think you should need, like, I don't think there's a risk of overloading the capacity of your model, right? Because you can train on a trillion tokens, and it's …”
Dec 30, 2025 bearish
Nair: Fundamental science is less fruitful than empirical work for AI progress
“There's like actually so many of these kind of more scientific questions that I would like love to explore sometime, but then it really kind of conflicts with like empirical stuff, you know, like unfortunately at any given moment in time, it doesn't seem like …”
Dec 30, 2025 neutral