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01 / belief
“If you’ve written exams in undergrad or grad school where people allowed you to come with your notes to the exam, versus no notes allowed, I think not the same set of people end up scoring number one on both.”
02 / belief
“I think there’s something powerful about showing something that was not possible before.”
03 / belief
“I’m not saying it doesn’t have its flaws and there are things that are widely debated, but here I think you can just appear not to have any true emotional connection.”
04 / belief
“I think he went through many years where people just ridiculed or didn’t respect his work as much as they should have, and he still stuck with it.”
05 / belief
“My wife is insanely supportive of this journey. It’s almost like she cares equally about Perplexity as I do, uses the product as much or even more, gives me a lot of feedback and any setbacks that she’s already warning me of potential blind spots, and I think that really helps.”
06 / belief
“Now I think he has this mentality that it all has to be in-house, but it frees you from working on problems that you don’t need to be working on when you’re scaling up your startup.”
07 / belief
“I think another dimension is, we are just deeply curious as a species, and I think we have… Some work in AI’s, have explored this curiosity driven exploration.”
08 / belief
“I think LLMs really help there. So what LLMs add is even if your initial retrieval doesn’t have a amazing set of documents, like it has really good recall but not as high a precision, LLMs can still find a needle in the haystack and traditional search cannot, because they’re all about precision and recall simultaneously.”
09 / belief
“If we can achieve that, that amount of inference compute, where it leads to a dramatically better answer as you apply more inference compute, I think that will be the beginning of real reasoning breakthroughs.”
10 / belief
“Human-computer interaction. That’s what helped them arrive with new insights to search than people who are just working on NLP, so I think that’s another thing that realized that new insights and people who are able to make new connections are likely to be a good founder too.”
11 / belief
“I think he’s controversial for whatever’s happened in social media in general, but I think his positioning of Meta and himself leading from the front in AI, open sourcing, create models, not just random models, really, Llama-3-70B is a pretty good model.”
12 / belief
“I think even in 2010s, one third of Google traffic, when it used to be like 3 billion queries a day, was just instant answers from- … just answers, instant answers from the Google Knowledge Graph, which is basically from the Freebase and Wikidata stuff.”
13 / belief
“I think we don’t have an AI coach where you can actually just go and talk to them.”
14 / belief
“Again, I’m kind of beating the drum here, but for me it’s all about curiosity and knowledge. And I think there are different ways to keep the light of consciousness, preserving it, and we all can go about in different paths.”
15 / belief
“If you work from that perspective, I think you’ll give up beyond the point because it’s very hard to work towards something that was not truly important to you.”
16 / belief
“If we can get to that, then I think we can make a more accurate estimation of the timeline.”