The speaker describes a core thesis that large amounts of compute and data will produce increasingly intelligent models, while acknowledging that the details and implications are unclear.

“deep conviction in in again in this like big if you take a big blob of compute data it just wants to learn and out of that will come smarter and smarter models and all the particulars are not clear and”

“yeah. all the implications were not clear but that deep conviction is like core thesis and that was kind of dizzying it's both phenomenally interesting and exciting and also”