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Richard Socher

25 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2023 by Richard Socher · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Aug 16, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Socher: Larger Nvidia GPUs will enable running bigger LLMs on single GPUs
“There's just beyond a certain size that started running on a single GPU, but that will also change in the future as Nvidia you know, builds larger and larger memory GPUs so that you can then run log and log your language models on a single GPU, and so that wil…”
Richard Socher Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 20:28 Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
Aug 16, 2023
Insight
Socher: The best startups are usually founded by two co-founders
“A lot of companies die because the founders don't get along, but the best companies are usually you know, founded by two founders.”
Richard Socher Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 35:52 Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
Aug 16, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Socher: A good chunk of developer queries will move into IDEs
“I think ultimately a good chunk of developer queries will move to be directly in the IDE, an integrated developer environments that the quotas are using but not all of them.”
Richard Socher Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 24:56 Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
Aug 16, 2023
Disclosure
Socher: Founders returned AIX check after co-founder friction
“I had once this dinner, some really incredible security researchers and each of them was a rock star, but at the dinner, I kind of sensed a little bit of you know, some disagreements and it kind of interrupted each other a little bit here and there. So I put j…”
Richard Socher Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 36:17 Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
Aug 16, 2023
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Socher: Only a few dozen horizontal AI companies will see major success
“I do think there will be probably only a few dozen horizontal companies that are going to be really major breakout successes. But there will be thousands of vertical application, what you call it, sort of vertical companies that are successfully using AI for t…”
Richard Socher Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 39:43 Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
Aug 16, 2023
Insight
Socher: Don't train LLMs from scratch without hundreds of millions of responses
“And yeah, I don't think you should attempt it unless you have, you know, hundreds of millions of responses that to really like train your own model versus just fine-tune it a little bit. Like certainly not from scratch.”
Richard Socher Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 19:38 Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
Oct 10, 2024
Assertion Supported
Socher: I was a co-author of the seminal ImageNet paper
“And yeah, I was one of the coauthors of ImageNet too.”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 13:45 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Oct 10, 2024
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Socher: No company has made significant progress in conscious, self-aware AI
“There is no company that has made any significant progress in conscious, self-aware, self-reflective AI. And hence, it's very hard to predict when it will ever happen because we're making no progress towards it.”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 36:30 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Oct 10, 2024
Assertion Supported
Turck: Socher published 'The Age of AI' weeks before Altman's manifesto
“You wrote recently a blog post that you called the age of AI. And I have to say that was like, At least four weeks before Sam Altman published his own manifesto on the intelligence age.”
Matt Turck Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 1:52 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Oct 10, 2024 negative
Insight
Socher: Pursuing consumer and enterprise motions simultaneously is generally a bad idea
“It's generally a bad idea. I would discourage everyone from doing it. You need a lot more extra funding. You need a lot of very smart people who execute at extremely high levels. It makes everything harder.”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 1:01:56 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Oct 10, 2024 bearish
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Socher: I bet an OpenAI founder AGI won't happen by 2026
“I actually have a bet with one of the OpenAI founders about whether we'll reach AGI I think we have like two years left for the bet, and I'm pretty sure I'll still win the bet.”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 1:27:36 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Oct 10, 2024 bullish
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Socher: There will never be another severe AI winter
“There will never be an AI winter again, the way we've seen in the past. If at all there will be an AI winter, it'll be like a California type winter.”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 37:33 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Oct 10, 2024
Insight
Socher: Testing students' writing requires removing internet and using paper
“If you want to test how students write essays, you probably have to take away the internet and just have them do some handwritten essays sometimes if that's still what you want to test for.”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 5:32 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Oct 10, 2024 positive
Insight
Socher: The best AI founding teams pair researchers with domain experts
“So the best founding teams are often a great AI researcher together with someone who has great expertise in, in the domain, and they get along well, and you see the dynamics when you meet them, and they just, they get along.”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 1:25:44 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Oct 10, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Socher: I angel invested in Hugging Face at a $5M valuation
“I invested in these two three founders creating this cute company called Hugging Face. I had a beautiful five million dollar valuation. And now they're worth, like, four and a half billion, right?”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 1:14:12 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Oct 10, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Socher: AIX Ventures hit 3x TVPI on its first venture fund
“I put all my angel portfolio into Fund One, and we raised Fund Two now, a two hundred two million dollar fund, and Yeah. Already have like three X TVPI or fund one.”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 1:16:07 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Sep 10, 2026
Insight
Socher: Intelligence is fundamentally built on prediction, action, and goals
“The very foundational building blocks, which I currently think are prediction, action, and goals and a combination of those three. Those are sort of the three principal components.”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 1:10:43 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
Sep 10, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Socher: Recursive raised approximately $670M
“Yeah, we raised, yeah, in the end, like 670 ish”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 1:07:24 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Socher: Nature and Science desk rejected AI economics papers
“When we submitted these papers and two-level reinforcement learning systems to nature and science, they just desk rejected them.”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 46:07 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
Sep 10, 2026 neutral
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Socher: The first NIPS deep learning workshop had only 30 to 40 people
“The first sort of deep learning workshops workshop at NIPS back in the day, now NeurIPS that was basically like 30, 40 people all the now super famous folks”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 4:31 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
Sep 10, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Socher: A lot of Neolab AI startups will not succeed
“We are, and I struggle with this sometimes, the Neolab category. I don't love it because I think a lot of them will not succeed.”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 1:07:46 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Insight
Socher: Modern scientific hyper-specialization makes cross-disciplinary polymaths nearly impossible
“It is almost impossible nowadays to be the sort of general genius that can dabble in all of these different fields because each field takes years and years and years to get really deep into.”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 2:42 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
Sep 10, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Socher: Majority of his early 2010 neural network NLP papers were rejected
“The way careers work is you want to be kind of novel, but if you're too novel, if you're too far out there, then your papers will get rejected, and that certainly happened to me a lot in the early days, like, 2010 of neural networks for natural language proces…”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 4:10 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
Sep 10, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Socher: AI is far from the true upper bounds of intelligence
“Boy, are we far away from The true upper bounds of any of the spaces of intelligence. And there's still so much further that AI can go in, in research.”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 1:12:45 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
Sep 10, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Socher: Reviewers widely rejected his early prompt engineering paper DecaNLP
“My paper where I described prompt engineering, like one neural network that you can just prompt with any kind of questions called Deca NLP, the paper. That paper was wildly, widely rejected by the, like, basically all the reviewers and the area chair and so on…”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 8:55 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
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