Richard Socher says that over the past 20 years, replacing human components of AI development with learned systems has been followed by improvements.

“my teams have sort of pushed the field truly forward and I feel like we can do it again here at Recursive. And in many ways, what I observed over the last 20 years in AI is that whenever we replace some human.”

“human part of the process of creating ai with a learned system improvements follow uh and so you know we've done that taking out manual feature engineering like in sentiment analysis i know if you remember these old days where like they're linguists and they're like here's how you negate and there's a like”