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Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by sangnoir »

epolanski wrote: post #82
localfirst wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Comments like this make me wonder whether I'm on reddit or HN. The future trajectory of AI isn't tied to Nvidia's stock in the same way the web didn't thrive or die on Cisco being the most valuable company in the world 24 years ago.

Perhaps not in general, but if the barrier of entry is radically lowered - such as if a new technique that drastically lowers the compute required for training is discovered - then Nvidia and a whole host of startups will lose lot of value. A lot of the positions assumes LLMs will remain SotA in the foreseeable future, which is not a bet I'd take.

Even if that doesn't happen, there will be a lot of consolidation and bankruptcies when AI funding dries up when category winners become clear and investors cur their losses - the same happened suddenly when the dot-com bubble burst, and little more gently with "web 2.0" startups

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by GreedIsGood »

jerjerjer wrote: post #42

Plot twist: Ilya joins xAI next.

This is plausible, Elon is a fantastic recruiter and he recruited Ilya for OpenAI. There are reports of xAI buying enormous numbers of GPUs and Elon's level of control of his companies means that Ilya recklessness isn't an issue.

It's a match. Probably the best match possible.

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by gallerdude »

ren_engineer wrote: post #18

seemed inevitable after that ouster attempt, probably just working out the details of the exit. But the day after their new features release announcement?

I would imagine he’d been thinking about it for a while, and maybe with all the buzz about him at the same time of the release, he was asked to decide.

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by wddkcs »

hbarka wrote: post #78

There’s a halo around Ilya Sutskever as the Albert Einstein of AI. Are there others on par with his— umm, how would you qualify it—- AI intuition or are we idolizing?

Reifing, you can't help but not in English. Capabilities are given intention, intentions given classes, and godhood is a class...

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by mikeg8 »

zombiwoof wrote: post #73
wavelander wrote: post #4

Altman's tweet ( https://x.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056?s=46 ) makes it seem as if he wanted to stay, and Ilya disagreed and "chose" to depart. Very interesting framing.

Altman is the biggest con artist in tech.

Exactly. He’s only founded and led a company that’s built some of the most easily adoptable and exciting innovations in human-computer interactions in the last decade. Total fraud!

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by vanjajaja1 »

threeseed wrote: post #55
breadwinner wrote: post #45

Ilya knows how ChatGPT works. Any company that hires him will be able to catch up with ChatGPT.

You will still need the compute resources of Microsoft, Meta etc. And they have their own people who equally know how LLMs work. Even raising funds is not a certainty given that VCs are becoming more cautious with AI as they realise it's now a platform fight between the mega corporations.

yep, and the puzzle isnt 'make chatgtp again' its 'catch up to chatgpt' which is a whole other puzzle

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by weard_beard »

fallat wrote: post #84
epolanski wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comments like this make me wonder whether I'm on reddit or HN. The future trajectory of AI isn't tied to Nvidia's stock in the same way the web didn't thrive or die on Cisco being the most valuable company in the world 24 years ago.

Yeah what. That guy above you is absolutely blind.

AI is more like Apple and less like the internet. Your rabid fanaticism is what convinces me of its value… not it’s actual value.
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