Brandon McKinzie

4 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2025 by Brandon McKinzie · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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May 1, 2025 positive
Insight
McKinzie: AI research consists of modular tasks ripe for automated optimization
“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.…”
Brandon McKinzie May 1, 2025 ▶ 15:34 No Priors Ep. 113 | With OpenAI's Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie
May 1, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McKinzie: OpenAI has run out of reliable evaluation benchmarks for recent models
“Especially with some of our recent models where we've kind of run out of Reliable evals to track because they kind of just solved a few of those.”
Brandon McKinzie May 1, 2025 ▶ 33:40 No Priors Ep. 113 | With OpenAI's Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie
May 1, 2025 positive
Opinion
McKinzie: OpenAI models use external tools with weirdly human-like intuition
“It's also surprising to me how intuitively our models do use the tools we give them access to. It's like weirdly human-like, but I guess that's not too surprising given the data they've seen before,”
Brandon McKinzie May 1, 2025 ▶ 16:50 No Priors Ep. 113 | With OpenAI's Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie
May 1, 2025 bullish
Opinion
McKinzie: OpenAI models hit an inflection point navigating internal codebases
“I think our models are getting a lot better very quickly at being actually useful. And it seems like they were kind of reaching some kind of inflection point where They are useful enough to want to reach out to and use like multiple times a day for me at least…”
Brandon McKinzie May 1, 2025 ▶ 14:32 No Priors Ep. 113 | With OpenAI's Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie
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