How They Became Leading AI Researchers in Just 1 Year - Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken 

"It's amazing how quickly you can be a world-class in something cause most people aren't trying that hard" really inspiring word!!

So they were outstanding software engineers who put in a ton of work on a new field.. not surprised but they inspire me the fck out

The CEO of AI21 said, “there are perhaps 200 people in the world who are simultaneously excellent researchers and engineers.” And this is why there are only a few companies with the capacity to build SOTA models.

My guess is that mathematical maturity takes the longest to build, as does learning general principles of research. Once you're good at both you can get to the top pretty fast by only focusing on what's driving the progress.

I KNEW Tristan Hume will be mentioned somewhere. Big fan of his work. Dwarkesh, if you could please talk to Tristan on the pod, we will be grateful 🙏

Great chat & insightful comments

They were lucky to be on the cutting edge of the hyped Gen-AI field. Some researchers have been doing research for 30 years unnoticed.

Very inspired by their story, and I have to say this is among the top content that I have seen recently

As an engineer I can say that vision, enthusiasm, learning attitude, ownership and empathy is also a quality which distinguishes an engineer. Vision, enthusiasm and learning attitude is pretty personal. Empathy for the every stakeholder which includes yourself, fellow engineers, PMs, leadership and customers. What it means is that you write better code which could understood by you and any one reading it. Adding proper logs, telemetry which would be helpful in debugging and reporting numbers to PMs, leadership and also helps analyze the product feedback. This video, I have bookmarked as it is a great video to understand the mindset of great engineers.

"manufacture luck". makes so much sense

Very insightful

this defiinitely is a good interview, just honest personal advise

If you go ham [in a niche field].

I really love this podcast it speak to me a lot... It's the best

Put these two next to connor leahy and let them have a thorough discussion!

I'm top of my field in my profession, literally can't go higher without moving completely into full time leadership...that said, i'm not a fan of talking down others as lacking drive or initiative and hence that's how you did well. Because you can easily spin that around as failed leadership. Not everyone is a 22 year old kid with nothing else to do, some are parents, others struggle with personal issues, others simply aren't motivated...but could be.

Who is the one on thw White t shirt?

Rapid fire testing

That is an amazing shirt

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Wtf they’re good looking too. That’s not fair

10pm to 2am interesting

Just because you're working on the trendiest thing, doesn't mean you're better than any other software engineer out there

why do i get the vibe he's on adderall

No salt, but they're not leading AI researchers though, right?

Too bad Claude is so bad at math compared to chatgpt with Wolfram can not even do latex properly

So they got lucky is all

probably bullshit.. america always needs heros and a posterchild for something. who is really going to challenge whether they don't know AI.

Both of these people would sound much more intelligent, if they didn't say "like" every 5th or 6th word. It's not difficult!