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What Ilya Sutskever thinks about innovation

@ilya-sutskever · 28 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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  1. Our readingThe age of scaling sucked the air out of the room and left the field with more companies than ideas, by quite a bit.

    Their wordsAnd so because scaling sucked out all the air in the room, everyone started to do the same thing. We got to the point where uh we are in a world where there are more companies than ideas by quite a bit.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 12th of 28 in this recording

  3. Our readingA million copies of one researcher would hit diminishing returns quickly, because what research needs is people who think differently.

    Their wordsI think I think there'll definitely be there'll be diminishing returns because you want you want people who think differently rather than the same. I think that if they were literal copies of me, I'm not sure how much more incremental value you'd get.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 25th of 28 in this recording