Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. However, the endless sense of wonder that the human mind has is fuelled by the potent, living sensation of curiosity.
Curiosity is underrated and often misunderstood. This feeling allows one to see things despite not knowing about them. Sometimes, it may make one look strange and sometimes ill-equipped.
While speaking on the matter of comprehension of the ever-evolving world around, Zerodha co-founder and podcaster Nikhil Kamath took to post on X and said, “When you feel like an idiot, vocalize it, don’t have to pretend to be smart :).”
These comments came from him in the backdrop of his new podcast. in his words, tries to explain AI and what’s happening.
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Further, he added, “A curious idiot may be better than pretend-smart in the long run.”
FOMO All The Time
These comments came from him in the backdrop of his new podcast. in his words, tries to explain AI and what’s happening.
Kamath shared a small clipping of the conversation that he had with AI trailblazer Perplexity AI’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas.
In the conversation Srinivas observed that Software engineering is one of the highest paid professions. Today, it’s pretty obvious that most human software engineers, at least like the median human software engineer, is probably worse than an AI today.
Replying to this anxiety of not knowing, Nikhil Kamath added his bit, and said, “You know Gen Z uses a particular word, they say FOMO all the time. I face that on a daily basis because I keep reading about AI.”
Feeling Smart
Talking about his ‘fancy ideas’ Aravind Srinivas talked about John Shulman, who was one of the OpenAI co-founders. Srinivas said that Shulman noticed his work and he invited Srinivas for an internship.
On The Question of Nvidia, Srinivas said, “I think it’s pretty hard to do what they do at the margins they have. I have my exposure to it. I’m not selling; I’m holding. Is SF petty? Like, if you said something bad about Nvidia, would you get fewer chips when you needed them? I’ve not done that so I don’t know. I hope not. Right. ”
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“And I was working on very fancy ideas where like made me feel smart but not necessarily that mattered long run.”, Perplexity AI boss added.
Aravind Srinivas said that he was trying to work on things where the AI would learn its loss function.
On The Question of Nvidia, Srinivas said, “I think it’s pretty hard to do what they do at the margins they have. I have my exposure to it. I’m not selling; I’m holding. Is SF petty? Like, if you said something bad about Nvidia, would you get fewer chips when you needed them? I’ve not done that so I don’t know. I hope not. Right. “
