Alec Radford
3 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 8, 2024 by Sam Altman · said 9 times in 3 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Nov 8, 2024 positive
Altman: OpenAI's GPT Series Originated From Radford's Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron Discovery
“And at the time, unsupervised learning was just not really working. So he noticed this one really interesting property, which is there was a neuron that was flipping positive or negative with sentiment. And yeah, that led to the GPT series.”
Jan 31, 2025 bullish
McGrew: Future human jobs will bifurcate into 'genius' and 'manager'
“I think that the role that we're going to be playing, You know, one, I think there's going to be two roles. One will be something like a lone genius. You know, the Alec Radford of the world working alone at his computer, coming up with some crazy idea, but now…”
Jan 31, 2025 neutral
McGrew: Nobody believed next-token prediction would work before GPT-1
“And the core idea behind GPT-ONE is that if you have a transformer and you apply this super simple objective of guessing the next token, guessing the next word, that that would be enough signal that you could actually have something that would be able to gener…”