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Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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

Catching up right now is not a matter of tech innovation, but raw energy and compute. Of course, the next -revolution- in AI could very well come from Ilya. But why would he bestow that honor to anyone? He can self fund it if he wants. It's an R&D project, not a scaling problem.

it’s a matter of data

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Probably not related, but it's worth pointing out that Daniel Kokotajlo ( https://www.lesswrong.com/users/daniel-kokotajlo ) left last month. But if it were related, then that would presumably be because people within the company (or at least two rather noteworthy people) no longer believe that OpenAI is acting in the best interests of humanity. Which isn't too shocking really given that a decent chunk of us feel the…

Why would that be presumable when his goodbye statement clearly states the opposite?

This is baseless fear mongering given that.

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Catching up right now is not a matter of tech innovation, but raw energy and compute. Of course, the next -revolution- in AI could very well come from Ilya. But why would he bestow that honor to anyone? He can self fund it if he wants. It's an R&D project, not a scaling problem.

If that is the case, why hasn't Google caught up yet?

my guess is that a significantly underrated reason is that Google holds itself to stricter data compliance standards than OAI

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Probably not related, but it's worth pointing out that Daniel Kokotajlo ( https://www.lesswrong.com/users/daniel-kokotajlo ) left last month. But if it were related, then that would presumably be because people within the company (or at least two rather noteworthy people) no longer believe that OpenAI is acting in the best interests of humanity. Which isn't too shocking really given that a decent chunk of us feel the…

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Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except all the big tech CEOs have head AI honchos who are huge names in their own right, eg yann for meta and demis for Google. Probably couldn't bring him into those places without ruffling some pretty big feathers

Not Apple... At least as far as I known.

But Apple now seemed to enter some kind of agreement with OpenAI, not sure if Ilya or OpenAI would want to work together even via proxy.

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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'Back in May 2023, before Ilya Sutskever started to speak at the event, I sat next to him and told him, “Ilya, I listened to all of your podcast interviews. And unlike Sam Altman, who spread the AI panic all over the place, you sound much more calm, rational, and nuanced. I think you do a really good service to your work, to what you develop, to OpenAI.” He blushed a bit, and said, “Oh, thank you. I appreciate the co…

I read the linked article and have no clue what the author is even trying to say..

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Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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They've got money for a very BIG experiment tho

I feel like they’re not going to want to go into direct competition with their most valuable customers.

their most valuable customer is cloud providers and they’re already taking big stakes and picking winners

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Probably not related, but it's worth pointing out that Daniel Kokotajlo ( https://www.lesswrong.com/users/daniel-kokotajlo ) left last month. But if it were related, then that would presumably be because people within the company (or at least two rather noteworthy people) no longer believe that OpenAI is acting in the best interests of humanity. Which isn't too shocking really given that a decent chunk of us feel the…

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Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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I’m not surprised with what happened with Sam Altmans ousting. He missed the king. I’m surprised he lasted this long.

Mira Murati also "missed the king" and just delivered the keynote

Reid Hoffman provided some clear (at least to me) evidence for Mira's non-involvement → https://youtu.be/IgcUOOI-egk?si=FiSPt87v3pM3lfKt&t=851
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