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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 Next Paradigm for Generative Models

Next token prediction can only help us match human performance, and maybe not surpass it. What would it take to surpass human performance? So I challenge the claim that next token prediction cannot surpass human performance. If your base neural net is smart enough, you just ask it like, what would a person with great insight and wisdom and capability do? Maybe such a person doesn't exist, but there's a pretty good chance that the neural net will be able to extrapolate how such a person could behave.

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