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Published · transcript-backedIlya Sutskever: evaluation
27 Mar 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
“Back then it really wasn't possible to continue working in robotics because there was so little data.”
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- Ilya Sutskever
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- 27 Mar 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Robotics. Was it the right step for Open AI to leave that behind? Yeah, it was. Back then it really wasn't possible to continue working in robotics because there was so little data. Back then if you wanted to work on robotics, you needed to become a robotics company. You needed to have a really giant group of people working on building robots and maintaining them. And even then, if you’re gonna have 100 robots, it's a giant operation already, but you're not going to get that much data. So in a world where most of the progress comes from the combination of compute and data, there was no path to data on robotics. So back in the day, when we made a decision to stop working in robotics, there was no path forward. Is there one now?…
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