The Transition From Robotics to Machine Learning

John Defterios: Switch from working on robotics to working on RL was the biggest switch that I made, except perhaps going into machine learning in the first place. He says there's a lot of opportunity for doing high-quality scientific work at OpenAI. Do you see opportunities to do things that don't require massive compute and our data budget that are also very exciting? Yeah, I think so. You need to figure out some kind of niche where you're not gonna get scooped by industry,. Or actually your work isn't gonna be just kind of like obsoleteed by some model that gets released.