AI research

“Increasingly at a lot of the conferences and looking at the papers that were being developed, it was more and more just big tech companies like ourselves that were showing up in the literature, and it was more and more a field becoming dominated by big players…”

“It is to get lost, I would say, in the research terminology and the paper publication, on a specific number or metric that you want to improve, but if it doesn't really help your product, then, for us, it's, like, not really worth doing.”

“When you're doing AI research, nobody really knows if it's going to take three months, or six months, or nine months, or 18 months, or if it's even possible.”

“We think that one of the most important signals of whether or not we are basically the speed of takeoff, the speed of progress is driven by how much AI is able to assist AI research.”

“I think over time that boundary has blurred quite a lot because we're working on these very large systems now. Research really looks like engineering and vice versa.”

“I think what might be happening instead is kind of a shift in paradigm where before we were kind of scaling in the data unlimited regime where, where data would scale as much as you would like. And we're kind of shifting more to a data limited regime, which ac…”