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
Apr 10, 2025 positive
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.”
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
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.”
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
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.”
Jul 17, 2025 neutral
Aug 21, 2025 positive
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…”
Jun 4, 2026 negative
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.”
Jun 26, 2026 positive