The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025

Decent overall… Probably a little too low level for me

Why AI should continue to become very smart

Is human intelligence the result of scaling ?

Next token prediciton as a form of AI alignment mechanism.

As of this writting, the constraint is now the centralized electrical power required for the next scaled-up training runs.

Physics of Energy

Predicting the end point of AI is much easier than predicting the path to it

The Bitter Lesson

LLMs need ridiculous amounts of data to achieve mediocre levels of reasoning.

Scaling is all you need