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What is Digital Life? with OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever

Nov 2, 2023

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Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at OpenAI, discusses the origins of OpenAI, emergent behaviors of GPT models, token scarcity, next frontiers of AI research, AI safety, and the premise of Superalignment. They also explore the definition of digital life and the challenges of creating pro-human AI.

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The transition from traditional AI methods to neural networks, particularly larger networks, has greatly advanced the capabilities of AI in various domains.

OpenAI's Super Alignment project aims to address the challenge of ensuring AI systems have a positive and pro-social orientation toward humanity.

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OpenAI's Impact and AGI Research

OpenAI, a company that has rapidly grown and is at the forefront of AGI research, is changing the world. Their research is leading the charge towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). In a recent podcast episode, Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist at OpenAI, discussed the state of AI research and the future of AGI.

Model Scale and Reliability: Balancing Capability and Inference Costs

04:19

The Evolution of Cap Profit

00:52

The Transformer Architecture and its Applicability to AGI

01:19

Introduction

3min

Exploring the Intuition and Technical Realization of Artificial Neural Networks

4min

Evolution of OpenAI and the Cap Profit Structure

20min

Application of Transformer Models and the Need for Other Architectures

8min

Creating Pro-Social AI and Aligning Super Intelligence with Human Values

4min

Accelerating and Decelerating Forces in Technology

3min

Each iteration of ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable step function capabilities. But what’s next? Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at OpenAI, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the origins of OpenAI as a capped profit company, early emergent behaviors of GPT models, the token scarcity issue, next frontiers of AI research, his argument for working on AI safety now, and the premise of Superalignment. Plus, how do we define digital life?

Ilya Sutskever is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI. He leads research at OpenAI and is one of the architects behind the GPT models. He co-leads OpenAI's new "Superalignment" project, which tries to solve the alignment of superintelligences in 4 years. Prior to OpenAI, Ilya was co-inventor of AlexNet and Sequence to Sequence Learning. He earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

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Show Notes:

(00:00) - Early Days of AI Research

(06:51) - Origins of Open Ai & CapProfit Structure

(13:46) - Emergent Behaviors of GPT Models

(17:55) - Model Scale Over Time & Reliability

(22:23) - Roles & Boundaries of Open-Source in the AI Ecosystem (28:22) - Comparing AI Systems to Biological & Human Intelligence (30:52) - Definition of Digital Life

(32:59) - Super Alignment & Creating Pro Human AI

(39:01) - Accelerating & Decelerating Forces

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