Why would 17 year old do something that only brings them money? I do not think Mr Graham here is advocating for the path that makes most money as a result of learning how to train a model. I assume that tinkering and learning about LLMs is what enterprising 17 year olds will do to discover ways they can get a competitive edge or further the SotA with their insights further down the line.
replyNo wonder the state of everything when 17 year olds are getting pressured to be “enterprising” and “get a competitive edge”. How about learning to be empathetic, respecting your fellow humans, caring for the place you live in, enhancing the lives of others? We shouldn’t be teaching 17 year olds to be greedy, selfish, self-aggrandising blowhards like Zuckerberg, Musk, and Graham. They are not good role models for the future of humanity.
replyhe does mention that it would later on be about building a startup, which is about making money
replyIt seems obvious to me that no matter what your age right now, you should want to be as broadly educated and intellectually curious as possible.
replyYou should want to train a LLM from scratch as an intellectual curiosity itch that needs to be scratched.
The idea of learning one hot skill that has a pot of gold waiting at the end of it was a brief moment in time that came and went.
When I was 17, we would have said obviously support vector machines are the future. Neural networks overfit and don't work.