Eric Zelikman
6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2025 by Eric Zelikman · across every show →
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Oct 9, 2025 negative
Zelikman: Most AI labs treat humans as mere intermediates to full automation
“And maybe this is a strong statement, but I say for most labs, like the human is kind of, you know, the intermediate until you have like this fully automated, like, you know, system. And so spending a lot of time optimizing things for being really good at unde…”
Oct 9, 2025 positive
Oct 9, 2025 negative
Zelikman: Current frontier AI models fundamentally lack emotional intelligence
“One of the core things is that they're not smart Like, emotionally, or, like, they're not smart on the level of, like, actually understanding kind of what people care about, or kind of, like, how to actually, like, help people accomplish the things that they c…”
Oct 9, 2025 neutral
Oct 9, 2025 negative
Zelikman: AI field underinvests in memory due to task-centric training regimes
“I would say that memory is definitely like a feature that has been under, under-invested in by the field. But I would say that it is kind of difficult to invest in memory in this very, like, task-centric regime. Because if you have, like, A bunch of these, lik…”
Oct 9, 2025 positive
Zelikman: Language models can be trained to simulate students for test design
“Like, even back in my PhD, I think one of my, I guess, less well-known works was actually about, we showed that you can train language models to simulate different kinds of students. For tests. Yeah, yeah. And by simulating students, you can actually design be…”