evals

also referred to as: eval

9 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 8, 2024 by Ankur Goyal · across every show →

Everything said about evals, oldest first

Oct 8, 2024
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Goyal: AI observability exists to collect datasets for evaluations and fine-tuning
“In AI, the whole point of observability is to collect data into data sets that you can use to do evals, and then again, eventually fine tune models or, you know, more advanced things.”
Ankur Goyal Oct 8, 2024 ▶ 33:50 No Priors Ep. 85 | CEO of Braintrust Ankur Goyal
Apr 10, 2025 positive
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Foody: Model Improvement via RL Is Gated Entirely by Evaluation Benchmarks
“Reinforcement learning is becoming so effective that once you create evals, the models can learn them and how to you know, improve capabilities. And so for everything that we want alums to be good at, we need evals for those things.”
Brendan Foody Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 1:14 No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Foody: Eval creation could become the most common knowledge job globally
“It Would not surprise me if that becomes the most common knowledge work job in the world.”
Brendan Foody Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 19:43 No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
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Foody: Knowledge work will shift from repetitive tasks to fixed-cost eval building
“It does seem structurally more efficient for work to trend away from the variable cost of like doing it repeatedly towards this fixed cost of how do we build out the evals and the processes for models to do this themselves.”
Brendan Foody Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 21:13 No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
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Foody: Superintelligence cannot be recognized without comprehensive human evals
“You don't even know that you have super intelligence without having evals for everything. Cause it's like, you sort of need to understand what is the human baseline and like, what is good? It's like grounded in this like understanding of human behavior.”
Brendan Foody Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 20:09 No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody
Jul 17, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Laskin: Most Contributors on OpenAI's o1 Paper Worked on Evals
“When you look at the model card for, let's say, the O-one paper that came out, I think, last year. If you look at the distribution of what most people worked on, on that paper, it was evals.”
Misha Laskin Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 17:16 No Priors Ep. 123 | With ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin
Aug 21, 2025 positive
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Ng: Systematic error analysis with evals separates top AI agent teams
“The single biggest differentiator that I see in the market is, does the team know how to drive a systematic error analysis process with evals? So you're building the agents by analyzing at any moment in time, what's working, what's not working, what do you imp…”
Andrew Ng Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 3:29 No Priors Ep. 128 | With Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner at AI Fund
Jun 4, 2026 negative
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Nadella: Public AI benchmarks are gamed; companies need private evaluations
“Most importantly, you'll have private evals because we know all the evals out there are good, interesting, But they're not really that critical at this point because they're all can be maxed. And so the point is each company will have its own private eval.”
Satya Nadella Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 4:54 We Need An Ecosystem in AI, And Every Company Can Win A Place In It
Jun 26, 2026 positive
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Brown: Poker bot creation is a superior AI reasoning evaluation
“I think it's a nice eval because there is very little open source code for making poker bots. And there's a lot of published essays, there's a lot of published papers on it, but you really have to reason through everything.”
Noam Brown Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 8:41 Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brown
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