Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Spies, Microsoft, & Enlightenment

Ilya is 100% signal, 0% noise. Really great interview.

Hearing his responses, I can’t help but admire his clarity and intellect

I've seen so many interviews with the top people at OpenAI and this is BY FAR the best one. You ask the important questions and resist all the boring traps. So good. More like this please.

Ilya can process and answer questions (super accurately) faster than I can figure out what the question is. And his answers are short elegant descriptions with loads of content. Happy that he is out there doing these interviews. Life as we know it, is about to go through a new doorway that we don't know what's on the other side. I am glad there are some people like Ilya at the front of the line.

Real brain behind OpenAI no doubt

Ilya answers that he doesn't know why he was the first and still a top researcher, he says these seem uncorrelated. One answer is that, Ilya continued to be a big a believer in Deep Learning when others weren't. Believing Deep Learning could work was a contrarian bet in 2012. Moreover, after it worked, that this paradigm would remain powerful and wouldn't hit a wall was still contrarian among ML researchers in academia. So there is some correlation, I think.

Ilya is so fucking awesome to listen to. He is such a genius and so creative. He really is the GOAT

Man, this interview is just amazing. The interviewer asks the most interesting questions and Ilya has no difficulty in answering and also explain the hard terms and topics.

For a non-native the interviewer speaking 2x by default was a bit hard to keep catching but Ilya's answers were very clear and informative. Thanks!

Always a pleasure to listen to Ilya. Thanks for the interview!

Ilya is genuinely a genius. His insights and contributions are unparalleled. Truly remarkable work!

you gotta work on asking questions that more closely expand on a previous topic. instead of asking random follow up questions that hardly relate. ilya said hes tempted to become part AI and you just move right past it.

Illya speaks very carefully and clearly. The hosts run their words together and lack logical progression.

I learned a lot from your interview. Thank you! I appreciate all the hard work that went into preparing the questions and editing the video.

This is honestly the best interview I have seen in years, and I'm a first time watcher. These are great questions and they follow the conversation perfectly. Subscribed and can't wait for more!

Dude just blew past so many key insights like it was breakfast. 41:32 so many people don't realize what it means for the AI to have an IO channel to humans. How it can act on the "real" world through us. Ilya is super impressive. Glad to listen to him. I just think it would be interesting to hear what he thinks about fast takeoff or sudden capabilities jump. Like sure maybe for now alignment is keeping pace with capabilities (press X to doubt but whatever), why would anyone think this trend will continue seeing how the state of the field is.

People like Ilya amaze me. Dedicate what seems to me an entire life to solve and work with just one subject.

Super thanks for inviting Ilya! He deserves all due respect for creating the most impactful technology in human history!

Ilya slays with FACTS. I am so pleased that there is no boring fluff to pad this interview to 2h. Thank you!

Brilliant video. Structured, logical, systemic, cold blooded reasoning, , and informative with conclusions. Plus with good humor. Great content. Thanks!