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Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Forward Forward Algorithm

I think that it's an attempt to brain a neural network without back propagation. But if you are trying to just engineer a good system, there is no reason to not use back propagation. I guess I've heard you in different contexts talk about using humans as the existing example case that AGI exists. At what point do you take the metaphor less seriously and don't feel the need to pursue it in terms of research? Because it is important to you as a sort of existence case.

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