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

Dwarkesh Podcast

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How Much Time Is Spending on Coming Up With New Ideas?

When you're doing your work, how much of the time has spent configuring the right initializations and getting the right hyperparameters? How much is it just coming up with whole new ideas? I think like I don't like this framing as much. It's not that it's false, but I think the main activity is actually understanding.

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