The interviewer questions why AI progress has historically been slower than expected if research breakthroughs are highly amenable to intelligence, noting that some training awaited vast compute resources despite potentially being possible with less compute.

“This is my remaining skepticism honestly about the story is just”

“um i am yeah i'm not i'm not sure i understand why if research breakthroughs are so amenable to intelligence why ai progress has not been historically faster than it could have been and we had to wait for as you were saying like by the time our lvr actually worked even though you could have done it with like less compute we had to wait for oceans of compute and like gigawatts of compute to be available before people are like doing this training”