AI lab founder's first interview question: a loss curve, and he rejects anyone who draws conclusions
egrefen · x · 2026-10-26
Aidan Clark, co-founder of DeepMind, shared his AI lab's first interview question: show the candidate a loss curve plus the beginning of another curve that initially drops far below the reference, and ask what can be concluded. Anyone who starts saying "yes, you can conclude something" doesn't get the job — testing whether candidates resist drawing premature conclusions from early training curves. Another user wondered what the post was a subtweet of.
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