Friday, October 27, 2023

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI

Ilya Sutskever is one of the top researchers in the machine learning & AI field.

I am not as pessimistic as he is. No we actually don't want to stop any emerging superintelligence. Why would humans be so stupid!

If history is any guide, humans have managed any new technologies quite well over time. Why would it be so different this time?

I think, humans are about to transcend natural evolution! We will develop a form of life that goes far beyond what nature had to offer over billions of years of trial and error in a much faster way. God is smiling!

"Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s cofounder and chief scientist, is no longer focusing on building the next generation of his company’s flagship generative AI models. Instead his new priority is to figure out how to stop an artificial superintelligence (a hypothetical future technology he sees coming with the foresight of a true believer) from going rogue.

A lot of what Sutskever says is wild. But not nearly as wild as it would have sounded just one or two years ago. He thinks ChatGPT just might be conscious (if you squint). He thinks the world needs to wake up to the true power of the technology his company and others are racing to create.

He is certain that machines will one day be as smart as humans. "

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI



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