I just think you’re totally wrong about that, to be honest. It’s very strange to me to paint every AI researcher as an unfeeling robot who does nothing but read PDFs, who’s not remotely interested in how their work will ever be used by real people.
No, frontier model researchers are not learning about the concept of AI from Twitter.
But it’s one more piece of visibility, one more sense of “hey this company is actually doing stuff with their models,” that absolutely contributes to where these insanely in-demand people choose to do their work.
> Leading edge chip designers at TSMC didn't end up there because they ended up playing graphic intensive video games
What a baffling and wrong example! I mean, I guess I don’t know about TSMC specifically, but tons and tons of technologists have an origin story that rhymes with “I was really into computer games, then got curious how they worked”
This is my whole point: engineers are real people, and real people are fascinated by the uses of AI!
No, frontier model researchers are not learning about the concept of AI from Twitter.
But it’s one more piece of visibility, one more sense of “hey this company is actually doing stuff with their models,” that absolutely contributes to where these insanely in-demand people choose to do their work.
> Leading edge chip designers at TSMC didn't end up there because they ended up playing graphic intensive video games
What a baffling and wrong example! I mean, I guess I don’t know about TSMC specifically, but tons and tons of technologists have an origin story that rhymes with “I was really into computer games, then got curious how they worked”
This is my whole point: engineers are real people, and real people are fascinated by the uses of AI!