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Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’ (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

I am jealous. I wish I had so much confidence in my speech that investors gave me billions on the promise of literally nothing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

What exactly qualifies as 'super intelligence' and what could it conceivably do that differentiates it from current AI? Sounds like another big ol' bucket of bullshit to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Oh, that’s easy. It just needs to be worth more than 100 billion dollars, which is the value threshold for regular artificial general intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Just a couple more GPUs bro, I’m sure it’s around the corner

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

what exactly qualifies as super intelligence?

Oy. This debate again?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

lemming investors be like:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

MIRI outputs stealth science in the same way that United Aircraft Company makes Su-75. it can be only detected by careful analysis of their spending