Knoop: Deep learning has millions of engineers, program synthesis has mere hundreds
Mike Knoop · Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop · Apr 3, 2025 · at 59:19
Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier and AGI research lab NDEA, contrasts the global pool of general deep learning talent with the scarcity of top program synthesis researchers.
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“There's maybe a couple of million deep learning engineers now in the world. In contrast, there's probably maybe only a few hundred like really great program synthesis folks across, across the world.”
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