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5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Noam Brown · across every show →

Everything said about search, oldest first

Apr 25, 2023 positive
Insight
IBM's Deep Blue proved that scaling search works in AI
“We learned that scale really does work. And in that case, it wasn't scaling, you know, training and neural nets, it was scaling search.”
Noam Brown Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 5:17 No Priors Ep. 1 | With Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta
Apr 25, 2023 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Inference-time search improved Noam Brown's poker AI performance by 100,000x
“If we were to add this search, this planning algorithm that would come up with a better strategy when it's actually in the hand, how much better could it do? And the answer was it improved the performance by about a 100,000 X. It was the equivalent of scaling …”
Noam Brown Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 53:31 No Priors Ep. 1 | With Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta
Apr 25, 2023
Insight
Srinivas: Search is as much a distribution game as a tech game
“No, I think whatever you said still applies. Search is tremendously a distribution game as much as a technology game.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 2:15 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Jan 31, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Guo: Specialized AI will fracture search from a single unified market
“We're at this very, I think, special moment where the technology and perhaps the like user behavior, the expectation, if we take out like slices of it, where the expectation is very different and get people to think about pieces of search Because it's not at a…”
Sarah Guo Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 37:33 No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates
Apr 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guo: Foundation model labs are converging on identical product surface areas
“I think one of the more, more interesting things is that you have convergence not just on capability, but also in the, like, product surface areas. Like, most people have search, they have a research product they have reasoning in the models.”
Sarah Guo Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 10:14 No Priors Ep. 109 | With Sarah and Elad
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