In 2018 – three years after leaving physics to focus on high-performance AI infrastructure (project Unum) – I gave the interview below during a LessWrong meetup on the ITMO University campus in St. Petersburg, Russia, arguably the strongest Computer Science department in the world. The recording was later posted on VKontakte. To preserve the conversation and reflect on it in the future, I’ve run it through automatic translation and posted it here, with some notes in the end on how the...
