"Thoughts on OpenAI"
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Microsoft CTO: "Thoughts on OpenAI"
From: Kevin Scott
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 7:16:11 AM
To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
Subject: Re: Thoughts on OpenAI
[Redacted] The thing that's interesting about what Open Al and Deep Mind and Google Brain are doing is the scale of their ambition, and how that ambition is driving everything from datacenter design to compute silicon to networks and distributed systems architectures to numerical optimizers, compilers, programming frameworks, and the high level abstractions that model developers have at their disposal. When all these programs were doing was competing with one another to see which RL system could achieve the most impressive game-playing stunt, I has highly dismissive of their efforts. That was a mistake. When they took all of the infrastructure that they had built to build NLP models that we couldn't easily replicate, I started to take things more seriously. And as I dug in to try to understand where all of the capability gaps were between Google and us for model training, I got very, very worried.