Just weeks before the management shakeup at OpenAI rocked Silicon Valley and made international news, the company's cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever explored the transformative potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI), highlighting how it could surpass human intelligence and profoundly transform every aspect of life. Hear his take on the promises and perils of AGI — and his optimistic case for how unprecedented collaboration will ensure its safe and beneficial development.
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[00:04:23] And you may wonder, is it going to be okay when technology is so impactful? decades, scientists and engineers have been figuring out how such digital brains should work and how to build them, how to engineer them. Now I find it interesting that the seat of intelligence in human beings is our biological brain.
[00:05:40] It is fitting that the seat of intelligence in artificial intelligence is an artificial
[00:05:46] brain. I thought, wow, if we could build a computer that is intelligent, maybe we will learn something about ourselves, about our own consciousness. That was my first motivation that pulled me towards AI. The second motivation was more pedestrian in a way. I was simply curious about how intelligence works.
[00:07:01] And when I was a teenager, an early teenager in the late 90s, When you speak to an AI chatbot, you very quickly see that it's not all there. That it's, you know, it understands mostly, sort of, but you can clearly see that there are so many things it cannot do and that there are some strange gaps go over a quick case study. This is a narrow example of a very, very broad technology. The example I want to present is health care. Many of you may have had the experience of trying to go to a doctor.
[00:09:41] You need to wait for many months sometimes.
[00:09:44] And then when you do get to see a doctor,
[00:09:46] you get a small, very limited amount of time This is just one example. This is just one example. AGI will have dramatic and incredible impact on every single area of human activity. But when you see impact this large, you may wonder, gosh, isn't this technology too impactful? And indeed, for every positive application of AGI, there will be a negative application
[00:11:04] as well, and you may say, gosh, where is this all headed? One of my motivations in creating open AI was, in addition to developing this technology,
[00:12:23] was also to address the questions that are posed by AGI, the difficult questions, the exists, and this observation is this. Consider the world one year ago, as recently as one year ago. People weren't really talking about AI, not in the same way at all. What happened? We all experienced what it's like to talk to a computer and to be understood. The idea that computers will become really intelligent and eventually more intelligent
[00:13:41] than us is becoming widespread.
[00:13:43] It used to be an issue idea that only the ideas that we were operating by, and it's been written on our website for five years now, that
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