OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever discusses the current state of generative AI, and talks about his new company SSI and what he plans to do with the three billion dollars he’s raised: develop learning AI systems. (Dwarkesh Podcast)
Summary
- Sutskever believes we are entering a new "age of research" in AI, where scaling alone won't suffice and fundamental problems around generalization must be solved.
- SSI's plan is to pursue a different technical approach from other companies, one focused on building an AI system that is robustly aligned to care about sentient life.
- Sutskever emphasizes the importance of "research taste" - an aesthetic sense for what AI approaches are elegant, inspired by the brain, and likely to succeed, which has guided his pioneering work.
