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Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder · SSI

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01 / prediction

Now, from 2020 to 2025, it was the age of scaling—maybe plus or minus, let’s add error bars to those years—because people say, “This is amazing.

“Now, from 2020 to 2025, it was the age of scaling—maybe plus or minus, let’s add error bars to those years—because people say, “This is amazing.”
Speaker
Ilya Sutskever
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

04 / prediction

Because what will happen as a result is that now the AI understands something, and we understand it too, because now the understanding is transmitted wholesale.

“Because what will happen as a result is that now the AI understands something, and we understand it too, because now the understanding is transmitted wholesale.”
Speaker
Ilya Sutskever
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

05 / prediction

If it somehow ends up being the case that you really want them to be reliable and they ended up not being reliable, or if reliability turned out to be harder than we expect.

“If it somehow ends up being the case that you really want them to be reliable and they ended up not being reliable, or if reliability turned out to be harder than we expect.”
Speaker
Ilya Sutskever
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

06 / prediction

I expect there's going to be a convergence-divergence-convergence behavior, where there is a lot of convergence on the near term work, there's going to be some divergence on the longer term work.

“I expect there's going to be a convergence-divergence-convergence behavior, where there is a lot of convergence on the near term work, there's going to be some divergence on the longer term work.”
Speaker
Ilya Sutskever
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

08 / prediction

Today when you use Copilot, how do you divide it up? So I expect at some point you ask your descendant of ChatGPT, you say — Hey, I'm thinking about this and this.

“Today when you use Copilot, how do you divide it up? So I expect at some point you ask your descendant of ChatGPT, you say — Hey, I'm thinking about this and this.”
Speaker
Ilya Sutskever
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

11 / prediction

One thing I imagine is that we will be able to become more enlightened because we interact with an AGI which will help us see the world more correctly, and become better on the inside as a result of interacting.

“One thing I imagine is that we will be able to become more enlightened because we interact with an AGI which will help us see the world more correctly, and become better on the inside as a result of interacting.”
Speaker
Ilya Sutskever
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

12 / prediction

We’ve made some progress but much more progress is possible. And so I would expect that ultimately, the thing that will really succeed is when we will have a small neural net that is well understood that’s been given the task to study the behavior of a large neural net that is not understood, to verify.

“We’ve made some progress but much more progress is possible. And so I would expect that ultimately, the thing that will really succeed is when we will have a small neural net that is well understood that’s been given the task to study the behavior of a large neural net that is not understood, to verify.”
Speaker
Ilya Sutskever
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

13 / prediction

For example, I believe that Intel has fabs just like a few generations ago. So that means that if Intel wanted to they could produce something GPU-like from four years ago.

“For example, I believe that Intel has fabs just like a few generations ago. So that means that if Intel wanted to they could produce something GPU-like from four years ago.”
Speaker
Ilya Sutskever
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

14 / prediction

Rather than achieving one mathematical definition, I think we will achieve multiple definitions that look at alignment from different aspects.

“Rather than achieving one mathematical definition, I think we will achieve multiple definitions that look at alignment from different aspects.”
Speaker
Ilya Sutskever
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast
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