He would still tell a young person with a passion for it to study computer science, because AI will reach every field and first-principles thinking is what transfers.

Drawn from what Sundar Pichai said

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AI and jobs Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.

What Sundar Pichai actually said

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

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The best thing a 17-year-old could do today is learn to build LLMs from scratch and train the most powerful ones they can get hardware for.

Pichai would still tell a young person with a passion for it to study computer science, because first-principles thinking transfers. Graham says the best thing a seventeen-year-old could do is learn to build LLMs from scratch and train the biggest one they can get hardware for. A degree and a garage are different bets on which part of this transfers.

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