Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSholto Douglas: belief
22 May 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
“If you made an extremely efficient transform implementation on TPU, or Trainium, or Incuda, then I think there's a pretty high likelihood that you'll get a job offer.”
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- Sholto Douglas
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- belief
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- 22 May 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…There's just so many interpretability projects. There's so much low-hanging fruit, and we need more people, and I don't think we have much time. I also want to make a plug for performance engineering. This is one of the best ways to demonstrate that you have the raw ability to do it. If you made an extremely efficient transform implementation on TPU, or Trainium, or Incuda, then I think there's a pretty high likelihood that you'll get a job offer. But there's a relatively small pool of people that you can trust to completely own end-to-end the performance of a model. And if you have broad, deep electrical engineering skills, I think you can probably come up to speed pretty fast on accelerator stuff.…
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