The speaker says AI research has become less exploratory and its range of research bets has narrowed compared with roughly five years earlier, including earlier work at DeepMind, Google Brain, and OpenAI.

“there it's not like a it doesn't feel like a wild west the way i felt five years ago or something like when like the something that was kind of beautiful about both think deep mind and google brain and even if you look at early open ai's how diverse the bets were and”

“people were doing just crazy fun stuff and now it's really narrowed in and and part of it there's like also a bit of a hardware lottery kind of thing because once something starts working the hardware also starts co-optimizing against it and so it's harder to find even if you have a great new idea if it's not really a good fit for the hardware you know it doesn't make sense so to answer your question”