I wanted to talk to Jesse on Live with Tim O’Reilly because, like me, he seems to be grappling with the bitter lesson, Richard Sutton’s observation that general methods that scale with computation have repeatedly beaten methods built on hand-engineered human knowledge. If Sutton is right, the question that should bedevil us all is what remains for humans. Obviously, this is very important for O’Reilly, because we are a business built by and for cultivating and sharing human expertise. We are working very hard to discover the high ground where human expertise still matters. Our Expert Intelligence grounding layer is one step in that direction.
