Quotesby GlyphJohn Schulman quotes on AI, with sources
Chief Scientist, Thinking Machines Lab · 7 quotes · latest Sep 11, 2026
- Basically anything that can be learned through RL can be distilled very easily, because it’s a small number of bits.
- In fact, I remember in the early OpenAI days having the intuition that just minimizing log loss wasn’t going to get you to intelligence.
- Right now, you don’t get explosive growth in capabilities because you still get bottlenecked enough when you’re trying to do research and engineering.
- So I would expect that we’re nowhere near the ceiling of how well you can do research.
- Even in one or two years, we'll find that the models can do a lot more involved tasks than they can do now.
- Given the relatively small number of entities who could train the largest models, it does seem possible to coordinate.
- If AGI came way sooner than expected we would definitely want to be careful about it.
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