Andrej got famous because of his educational content. He's a smart dude but his research wasn't incredibly unique amongst his cohort at Stanford. He created publicly available educational content around ML that was high quality and got hugely popular. This is what made him a huge name in ML, which he then successfully leveraged into positions of substantial authority in his post-grad career.
He is a very effective communicator and has a lot of people listening to him. And while he is definitely more knowledgeable than most people, I don't think that he is uniquely capable of seeing the future of these technologies.
I wish he went back to writing educational blogs/books/papers/material so we can learn how to build AI ourselves.
Most of us have the imagination to figure out how to best use AI. I'm sure most of us considered what OpenClaw is doing like from the first days of LLMs. What we miss is the guidance to understand the rapid advances from first principles.
If he doesn't want to provide that, perhaps he can write an AI tool to help us understand AI papers.
Andrej is an extremely effective communicator and educator. But I don't agree that he is one of the most significant AI pioneers in history. His research contributions are significant but not exceptional compared to other folks around him at the time. He got famous for free online courses, not his research. His work at Tesla was not exactly a rousing success.
Today I see him as a major influence in how people, especially tech people, think about AI tools. That's valuable. But I don't really think it makes him a pioneer.
I bet they feel so, so silly. A quick bit of reflection might reveal sarcasm.
I'll live up to my username and be terribly brave with a silly rhetorical question: why are we hearing about him through Simon? Don't answer, remember. Rhetorical. All the way up and down.
onion2k|9 days ago
PHD in neural networks under Fei-Fei Li, founder of OpenAI, director of AI at Tesla, etc. He knows what he's talking about.
UncleMeat|8 days ago
Andrej got famous because of his educational content. He's a smart dude but his research wasn't incredibly unique amongst his cohort at Stanford. He created publicly available educational content around ML that was high quality and got hugely popular. This is what made him a huge name in ML, which he then successfully leveraged into positions of substantial authority in his post-grad career.
He is a very effective communicator and has a lot of people listening to him. And while he is definitely more knowledgeable than most people, I don't think that he is uniquely capable of seeing the future of these technologies.
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Most of us have the imagination to figure out how to best use AI. I'm sure most of us considered what OpenClaw is doing like from the first days of LLMs. What we miss is the guidance to understand the rapid advances from first principles.
If he doesn't want to provide that, perhaps he can write an AI tool to help us understand AI papers.
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UncleMeat|8 days ago
Today I see him as a major influence in how people, especially tech people, think about AI tools. That's valuable. But I don't really think it makes him a pioneer.
bravetraveler|9 days ago
I'll live up to my username and be terribly brave with a silly rhetorical question: why are we hearing about him through Simon? Don't answer, remember. Rhetorical. All the way up and down.