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Shawn Wang: belief

11 Apr 2024 Latent Space Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit

“I think you're about to start us on like GPT-3 and how that changed things for you.”

— Shawn Wang

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Speaker
Shawn Wang
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
11 Apr 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…Yeah. I remember talking to VCs for our seed round. A lot of VCs were like, you know, researchers, they don't have any money. Why don't you build legal assistant? I think in some short sighted way, maybe that's true. But I think in the long run, R&D is such a big space of the economy. I think if you can substantially improve how quickly people find new discoveries or avoid controlled trials that don't go anywhere, I think that's just huge amounts of money. And there are a lot of questions obviously about between here and there. But I think as long as the fundamental principle is there, we were okay with that. And I guess we found some investors who also were. Yeah. Congrats. I mean, I'm sure we can cover the sort of flip later. I think you're about to start us on like GPT-3 and how that changed things for you. It's funny. I guess every major GPT version, you have some big insight. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what do you think?…

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