Sam Altman asserts that AI scaling laws will absolutely continue
Matt Turck · Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark · Nov 8, 2024 · at 21:57
Matt Turck, partner at FirstMark Capital, recounts asking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman directly whether AI progress from scaling laws will persist as compute and data scale.
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“I got a chance to ask that question to Sam Altman a few weeks ago. I was at an event at an event at OpenAI. Not surprisingly, when I asked him, you know, will scaling laws continue, he looked me straight in the eye and said, absolutely”
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