I think the most telling example of this is ilya himself being confused about why the "economic impact" of these ultra smart models is lagging where he thought it would be.
All the silicon valley pie in the sky elites seemingly completely missed the innately HUMAN nature of our systems. The system was never predicated primarily on raw logic or intelligence. Its always been primarily about people.
Enormous amounts of money could be saved with plain old Python and shell scripts anybody could learn… but then management wants you bolt on telemetry for a dashboard nobody will look at to prove it’s a good idea. Then they want you to promise your work is in their GitHub. Then their idiot CISO who can’t program has to pretend he’s auditing your work. Then the change management council needs a say… then you decide that profitability and efficiency isn’t your problem and you hobby code for toy problems.
All the silicon valley pie in the sky elites seemingly completely missed the innately HUMAN nature of our systems. The system was never predicated primarily on raw logic or intelligence. Its always been primarily about people.