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?
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#372When walking around the U of Toronto, I often think that ~10 years ago Ilya was in a lab next to Alex trying to figure things out. I can't believe this new AI wave started there. Ilya, Karpathy, Jimmy Ba, and many more were at the right time when Hinton was there too.
And none of them build AI companies in Toronto. I’m Canadian and disappointed at how ineffective we are at building successful companies.
Yeah Canada just spends a ton of taxpayer money to create great institutions like U of T and Waterloo, so that their graduates can all go to Silicon Valley and make 2-3x the money.
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#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to say I'm a bit surprised "gardening leave" is not more of a norm in tech like it is in investment banking or finance.
Big Tech wasn't what I expected, it seems there's almost a forced perspective that individuals don't make a difference (they do)
Not the leaving one is the only individual that matters. The org is made of them too, deals have to be made. Would be easier without having to regulate egos.
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#374How good or bad is this for OpenAI?
He is the smartest guy in AI but the sum of OpenAI’s talent is greater than his. But he could easily be the next great advancement in the field.
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#377Ilya will literally have a blank check from almost all the VC's in the industry.
Nope. His non-competes are likely very restrictive.
Non-competes were invalid in the state of California, and now are in the entirety of the U.S. [1]
[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/...
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#378When walking around the U of Toronto, I often think that ~10 years ago Ilya was in a lab next to Alex trying to figure things out. I can't believe this new AI wave started there. Ilya, Karpathy, Jimmy Ba, and many more were at the right time when Hinton was there too.
And none of them build AI companies in Toronto. I’m Canadian and disappointed at how ineffective we are at building successful companies.
Couldn't a company like that get a huge tax benefit from the SRED program?
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that’s Google’s reputation. Probably the most famous retirement home in the Bay.
but it's not true. Most people work a lot at G. Maybe some teams in search coast or something. But for every slacker I know 8 people who stay late a fair bit.
My experience differs greatly, company I used to work for did NDA, alpha, beta projects with Google. I was always impressed at how little anyone knew, the fact that nothing was delivered on time, scope creep to the point of almost everything being delayed and most projects were not well thought out nor well architected. I warned one API update would break things if it went live, and it did. Why was the guy from another company the only one able to see that? I’m sure they were working hard at something but it wasn’t ever clear what.
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#380If Karpathy and Illya join xAI, that would be a fun trajectory.