Ilya Sutskever
3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 6, 2023 by David Rosenthal · said 32 times in 6 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Sep 6, 2023 positive
Ilya Sutskever argued next-token prediction inherently requires true world understanding
“The more accurately an LLM predicts that next word, i.e. The name of the criminal. Ipso facto, the greater its understanding, not only of the novel, but of all general human-level knowledge and intelligence, because you need all of your experience in the world…”
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Google Employed Nearly Every Top AI Pioneer Simultaneously in 2015 and 2016
“Between 2015 and 2016, so this next year, this next 12 months after the Alphabet transition, all of the following people were Google employees. Alex Krzyzewski of AlexNet. Dawn of machine learning AI. His PhD advisor, Jeff Hinton, godfather of AI. His collabor…”