Ex-OpenAI o1 Lead Predicts Humans Will Be Vestigial in AI Research Within Two Years
scaling01 · x · 2026-08-26
Jerry Tworek (ex-OpenAI, led o1/o3) predicts humans will become a meaningless part of AI research in just two years, noting researchers joke about having only days of work left. He founded CoreAutoAI to bet against the Transformer architecture, arguing that labs without the highest compute footprint will die.
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