Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

Post by msikora » Wed, May 15, 2024, 5:15 AM UTC

MVissers wrote: post #352

dcchambers wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's been my assumption since the beginning of this drama last year. He seems to have one goal: real AGI. He knows that while LLMs may make something that seems like AGI there's nothing actually intelligent about it and its never going to get them there. OpenAI wants to pivot and sell sell sell because all they see is potential trillions of dollars, and it's time to make money instead of burning more millions/billi…

There is more money in AGI than LLMs. Whatever it is, language seems key to intelligent algorithms. Nah, he departed due to politics (failed coup) and shift from research first to profit first. Same with Karpathy I believe. He’ll most likely go somewhere where he can get a lot of compute and go back to research first.

Post by gdiamos » Wed, May 15, 2024, 5:16 AM UTC

zoogeny wrote: post #362

Interesting, both Karpathy and Sutskever are gone from OpenAI now. Looks like it is now the Sam Altman and Greg Brockman show. I have to admit, of the four, Karpathy and Sutskever were the two I was most impressed with. I hope he goes on to do something great.

Post by typon » Wed, May 15, 2024, 5:17 AM UTC

izend wrote: post #366

snowbyte wrote: post #365

When 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.

Post by mtnGoat » Wed, May 15, 2024, 5:17 AM UTC

meowtimemania wrote: post #357

surfingdino wrote: post #354

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It depends on the anti-compete clauses in his contract.

Aren’t those non enforceable now?

Post by Jensson » Wed, May 15, 2024, 5:26 AM UTC

MVissers wrote: post #352

dcchambers wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's been my assumption since the beginning of this drama last year. He seems to have one goal: real AGI. He knows that while LLMs may make something that seems like AGI there's nothing actually intelligent about it and its never going to get them there. OpenAI wants to pivot and sell sell sell because all they see is potential trillions of dollars, and it's time to make money instead of burning more millions/billi…

There is more money in AGI than LLMs. Whatever it is, language seems key to intelligent algorithms. Nah, he departed due to politics (failed coup) and shift from research first to profit first. Same with Karpathy I believe. He’ll most likely go somewhere where he can get a lot of compute and go back to research first.