Chat GPT's Creator Explains The Shocking Truth About How AI Understands the World | Ilya Sutskever

This conversation with Ilya was recorded while he was still chief scientist at OpenAI, before the boardroom drama that briefly ousted Sam Altman and ultimately led to Ilya's departure in 2024.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, neural, including: Since then, he's launched Safe Superintelligence, Inc., a new lab built around the idea that safety has to be the organizing principle of advanced AI.

1. 01Specialized domain-specific models in areas like cybersecurity, law, health, and media are growing faster than general chatbots and often beat larger foundation models on their hom
2. 02Like to give some context, the year was 2003
3. 03So in a nutshell I had the realization that if you train a large neural network on a large sorry large and deep because back then the deep part was still new if you train a large a