Quotesby GlyphIlya Sutskever quotes on AI, with sources
Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence · 9 quotes · latest Nov 25, 2025
- All the pre-trained models are pretty much the same because they pre-train on the same data.
- But now that compute is big, compute is now very big, in some sense we are back to the age of research.
- I think that’s been guiding me a fair bit, thinking from multiple angles and looking for almost beauty, beauty and simplicity.
- If you think about the term “AGI”, especially in the context of pre-training, you will realize that a human being is not an AGI.
- Number three, I think it would be really materially helpful if the power of the most powerful superintelligence was somehow capped because it would address a lot of these concerns.
- One consequence of the age of scaling is that scaling sucked out all the air in the room. Because scaling sucked out all the air in the room, everyone started to do the same thing.
- So for research, you definitely need some amount of compute, but it’s far from obvious that you need the absolutely largest amount of compute ever for research.
- So it’s back to the age of research again, just with big computers.
- The thing which I think is the most fundamental is that these models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people.
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