Peter Norvig's 2017 verdict on the Transformer paper: 'kind of good'
schwentker · x · 2026-10-24
Field notes from the Open Source AI Summit SF panel: in 2017 a colleague showed Peter Norvig the Transformer paper, and his verdict was merely "kind of good" — he was meanwhile working on something that "went absolutely nowhere." Now at Recursive, Norvig frames AI as filling in the convex hull of mathematics because proofs can be checked. Slide shown: "Just Scaling from here on?"
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