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What Ilya Sutskever thinks about startups

@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 readingEven with human-like learners, competition will split the AI market into specialised niches rather than hand it to one company.

    Their wordsI think what's going to happen is that the way competition like competition loves specialization and you see it in the market, you see it in evolution as well. So you're going to have lots of different niches and you're going to have lots of different companies who are occupying different niches

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 24th of 28 in this recording