Theo Baker quotes our own @chrmanning:
“Christopher Manning, an early AI pioneer whose research laid the groundwork for large language models, told me that Silicon Valley has a ‘propensity to naively believe in gurus.’ Aschenbrenner played the role to perfection, …
I wrote about The Prodigy Problem, naked Iliad wrestling parties, and why Leo Aschenbrenner, the “Nostradamus of AI,” lost $35 billion.
Up now @TheAtlantic.
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