AI research

“We don't do AI research. We're not interested in any of that. We're looking at how can we kind of best take what is working in the state of the art and apply it rapidly into these defense problem sets.”

“There is this pressure to do things fast because AI is so fast, and the fastest thing to do is, oh, let's take what's working now and let's kind of, like, add on something to it, and that probably is, as you're saying, more general than just image to video but…”

“And there's so many like different components of research too. There's, it's not just you know, sitting off in the ivory tower thinking about things, but there's like hardware there's you know, various components of training and evaluation and stuff like this.…”

“Sometimes fearless is this very interesting position where you're somewhat delusional and crazy, but somewhat just rationally bold, and it kind of is in between, because if you're too rational, it's not. You're not courageous enough. You're not identifying pro…”

“So, In that domain, I think it's happening now-ish. And I think we'll see the same thing too for AI research. That's a slower outer loop because now the experiment isn't just checking some unit tests passing, but it's checking what was the scaling property? Di…”