Yi Tay
19 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 5, 2024 by Yi Tay · said 6 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Jul 5, 2024
Jul 5, 2024 positive
Jul 5, 2024 negative
Jul 5, 2024 neutral
Yi Tay: Governments cannot artificially manufacture top AI talent ecosystems
“I don't think there's actually much, like, the government can do to, like, influence, like, this kind of thing is, like, a natural, like, organic, natural thing, right? The worst thing to do is probably, like, to create, like, create a lot of artificial things…”
Jul 5, 2024 positive
Yi Tay: AI researchers should draft papers and titles before running experiments
“I usually start writing the thing while working on that thing itself. Like, so, even, like, let's say, like, if you want to launch something, like, then the end goal is, like, a blog post, or shipping something, everything, right? I like, or not really a launc…”
Jul 5, 2024 negative
Tay: Singapore AI research prioritizes paper counts over real-world impact
“I think, to be honest, the research here is, like, in Singapore is just basically, like, they just care about publishing papers and stuff like that and then it's not, like, impact-driven. I think, at U.S., it's mostly focused on impact-driven, and the thing ne…”
Jul 5, 2024 neutral
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
DeepMind Singapore Explicitly Adds AGI to Job Postings
“I think that, like, one reason why we work on these models is that we want to get to AGI, and, like, this was a right thing that we added AGI to the job posting, yeah. There is no, like, formal name of the team yet, but it's basically the Gemini theme Singapor…”
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Tay: Most specialized tools will be subsumed directly into model parameters
“Then the most I can see in the future is there'll be a model then that, that is, there's something that really cannot be subsumed by a model. Then you just use a tool or something, right? But my prediction is that I think most things can be subsumed by the mod…”
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
Yi Tay: The AI Industry Is Stuck in a Transformer Local Minimum
“So now we are like in this local minima of like transformers, everything, everything, right? Maybe it's not easy to like get totally out Of this, because also a lot of people's investment optimization have been done. So the things that play well needs to play …”
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
Jan 23, 2026
Yi Tay: Gradient descent learning paradigm is AI's bottleneck, not architecture
“It's not architecture itself. That's, that there's a problem that we, that is more of like the learning paradigm itself rather than the architecture itself. I think the architecture is just basically like the interface between the learning algorithm and the to…”
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Yi Tay Fixes ML Bugs Automatically Using AI Without Reading Error Traces
“I think AI coding has started to become the point where I run a job, I get a bug. I almost don't look at the bug. I paste it into, like, anti-gravity, and, like, I throw it, that will fix the bug for me. And then I relaunched the job. And, like, beyond, like, …”
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Jan 23, 2026
Yi Tay: I had almost no RL background before returning to DeepMind
“I spent a lot of my past life, I call it the past art, working on like architectures and pre-training, but I think now I more, I have like transitioned more into RL. I'm not like old school RL, but the games RL and the old school RL, and to be honest, I had al…”