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What Ilya Sutskever thinks about measuring intelligence

@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 readingToday's models are the student who drilled 10,000 hours for the programming contest, which is exactly why what they learn does not carry anywhere else.

    Their wordsThe models are much more like the first student but even more because then we say okay so the model should be good at competitive programming so let's get every single competitive programming problem ever and then let's do some data augmentation so we have even more competitive programming problems

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 2nd of 28 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe most fundamental thing wrong with today's models is not scale or efficiency but that they generalize dramatically worse than people do.

    Their wordsThe thing which I think is the most fundamental is that these models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 8th of 28 in this recording