The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis Ilya Sutskever Calls Peak Data and the End of Pretraining
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Dec 17, 2024 Ilya Sutskever predicts we've hit peak data, marking a dramatic shift in AI development. As traditional pre-training wanes, the podcast explores innovative strategies like synthetic data and agents that could shape the future. NotebookLM unveils an enterprise edition that boasts interactive features to elevate user engagement. Also, the competitive landscape among AI interfaces heats up, focusing on the battle between Google and Perplexity as they innovate beyond chatbots.
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Pre-training Limits
- Ilya Sutskever believes pre-training is ending due to hitting data limits.
- Current models rely on scaling pre-training, but returns are diminishing.
New Era of AI
- Ilya Sutskever predicts a shift from scaling to "wonder and discovery."
- Scaling the "right thing," not just size, is now crucial.
Beyond Pre-training
- Sutskever suggests exploring agents, synthetic data, and inference time compute.
- He believes current "agents" are limited and not truly agentic.