Sarah Guo: "There's a large contingent of researchers who now feel one of two things is true: what I do doesn't matter because the model is going to do it, or the only thing that matters is compute scale. Both of those are somewhat disempowering."
The top AI labs have gotten so big that individual researchers no longer feel like they're essential to the machine.
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