Compute @ Anthropic | Formerly AI strategy @ Google and tech equity research @ Bernstein Research
Chicago, IL
Joined April 2009
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Was catching up with a friend from my days in public equities and was reminded of how investors will always *dramatically* overestimate how much any company actually knows about their own business
I had never expected the pivotal moment would be getting everyone to agree that yeah mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous killer drones would be, like, a bad idea
These will not be the hardest AI deployment questions that society will face in the next 3 years!
A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
anthropic.com/news/statement…
All I have to say about SaaS stocks right now is that I’m heartened to see everyone else in the market has started extrapolating straight lines on charts as well
1/ If I had a nickel for every time Mark Zuckerberg blew a few billion dollars trying to hire a team of star researchers to build a second place frontier AI research lab, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice
Breaking news: Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner who is considered one of the pioneers of modern AI, has told associates he will leave the Silicon Valley group in the coming months. on.ft.com/499Co6p
3/ Another thing that remains unchanged after a decade and a half - Mark Zuckerberg is extremely uninterested in AI safety, ie why DeepMind refused to sell out to Facebook
4/ The one thing that has changed - all of the checks now have an extra zero (or two)
“Even young PhDs could pull a half million dollars a year”
Ilya was offered “nearly $2 million for the first year”
Some things do change!
1/ Last week I read Genius Makers on a rec from @modestproposal1 - this was Cade Metz's 2021 book on the history of ML
It was really fascinating, but in the same way you'd be fascinated reading a history of Newtonian physics published 3 months before Einstein invented relativity
11/ A friend recently told me a hilarious quote from Ernest Rutherford: "All science is either physics or stamp collecting"
If you can't derive some underlying principle of reality from your research, then ultimately you're just collecting a bunch of random facts to no end