Trenton Bricken: recommendation

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…Right, and if that were directly true then why can't we scale our current research teams better? I think that’s an interesting question to ask. If this work is so valuable, why can't we take hundreds or thousands of people–they're definitely out there–and scale our organizations better. I think we are less, at the moment, bound by the sheer engineering work of making these things than we are by compute to run and get signal, and taste in terms of what the actual right thing to do is. And then making those difficult inferences on imperfect information, For the Gemini team. Because I think for interpretability, we actually really want to keep hiring talented engineers. I think that's a big bottleneck for us. Obviously more people are better. But I do think it's interesting to consider. One of the biggest challenges that I've thought a lot about is how do we scale better? Google is an enormous organization. It has 200,000-ish people, right? Maybe 180,000 or something like that. One has to imagine ways of scaling out Gemini's research program to all those fantastically talented software engineers. This seems like a key advantage that you would want to be able to take advantage of. You want to be able to use it but how do you effectively do that? It's a very complex organizational problem.…

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