OpenAI Chief Scientist Iiya Sutskever gives an insider view of generative AI and its future. Generative AI is the technology underlying ChatGBT, made by OpenAI with Sutskever’s influence.
Ilya Sutskever co-founded OpenAI.
His earlier career included projects and publications with Geoffry Hinton, credited as one of the principal pioneers of deep learning. Among the subjects he covers are:
- The issues from this point to reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI)
- New developments in generative AI
- Working with Microsoft and competing with Google
- Potential difficulties (aka “the alignment problem”)
- Possible breakthroughs
He’s interviewed by Dwarkesh Patel, podcast host for The Lunar Society.
Open AI | March 27, 2023