I’m not sure how the world will define the ‘creator’ of ChatGPT in time but Ilya Sutskever was the chief scientist at OpenAI when it was created and was behind the deep learning breakthroughs that made GPT possible.
He is also one of the most-credible voices around where it’s headed and profoundly concerned about its effects, as shown by his attempts to push out Sam Altman.
He’s now working on a safe-AGI product, largely in secret though he’s raised $1 billion to do it.
“Slowly but surely—or maybe not so slowly—AI will keep getting better. And the day will come when AI will do all of the things that we can do—not just some of them, but all of them,” he said Friday getting an honorary degree from the University of Toronto.
He said the challenge with AI is ‘really unprecedented and really extreme’.
The challenge that AI poses, in some sense, is the greatest challenge of humanity ever. And overcoming it will also bring the greatest reward. And in some sense, whether you like it or not, your life is going to be affected by AI to a great extent. And so, looking at it, paying attention, and then generating the energy to solve the problems that will come up—that’s going to be the main thing.
I would also say this is good advice for life, as well as for trading:
A useful state of mind… is to accept reality as it is, try not to regret the past, and try to improve the situation. Whenever I do this myself, everything works out so much better. But it’s hard—it’s a constant struggle with one’s emotion.
All these comments are a reminder that in the big picture the trade war, the Presidency, the turmoil in the world..
