AI researcher

also referred to as: ai researchers

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 8, 2017 by Greg Brockman · across every show →

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Nov 8, 2017 bearish
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Brockman: AI research will be automated before other human jobs
“I think it's actually not AI researcher. The AI researcher will kind of go before. It's actually very interesting when you ask people this question. I think that everyone tends to say whatever their job is as well as the hardest one. But I actually think that …”
Greg Brockman Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 57:14 Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Nov 20, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cannon: OpenAI uses the Cold War race-to-build moral justification
“I mean, it's the same one that OpenAI is using right now. Yeah. And most AI researchers.”
Craig Cannon Nov 20, 2018 ▶ 42:26 Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Kaplan: Compute scaling drives AI progress more than researcher cleverness
“Basically you can Scale up the compute in both pre-training and RL and get better and better performance. And I think that's sort of the fundamental thing that is driving AI progress. It's not that AI researchers are really smart or they suddenly got smart. It…”
Jared Kaplan Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 7:54 Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan · Y Combinator
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Insight
Field: Embedding designers into AI research teams is critical for Figma
“Embedding designers into our research teams, because obviously we're doing a lot of work on how do we make better AI tools for designers has been critical because researchers need that intuition of how designers think, and without actually having that close co…”
Dylan Field Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 24:08 Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
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