After the paper was strongly rejected, the team stopped pursuing some planned extensions and moved to other ideas.

“got rejected and the sad thing is that it got rejected so hard and they were so certain that we stopped going on on our list of things to try and the number two or three on the list of extensions for this paper was add language modeling as another task and then we could have like you know that would have accelerated the timelines in 2018 like even further for humanity but we got so crushed and we're like okay maybe we'll just”

“we'll work on some of our other ideas for now and like come back to this later you”