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Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Their "manifesto":

Superintelligence is within reach.

Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.

We have started the world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.

It's called Safe Superintelligence

SSI is our mission, our name, and our entire product roadmap, because it is our sole focus. Our team, investors, and business model are all aligned to achieve SSI.

We approach safety and capabilities in tandem, as technical problems to be solved through revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs. We plan to advance capabilities as fast as possible while making sure our safety always remains ahead.

This way, we can scale in peace.

Our singular focus means no distraction by management overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security, and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures.

We are an American company with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, where we have deep roots and the ability to recruit top technical talent.

We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world's best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.

If that's you, we offer an opportunity to do your life's work and help solve the most important technical challenge of our age.

Now is the time. Join us.

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (8 children)

What do you mean by anti-commercial style? I am not from North America, but this seems like pretty typical PR copytext for local tech companies. Lot's of pomp, banality, bombast and vague assertions of caring about the world. It almost reads like satire at this point, like they're trying to take the piss.

If his intentions are literal and clear, what does he mean by “superintelligence” (please be specific) and in what way is it safe?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Our singular focus means no distraction by management overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security, and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures.

This is the guy who turned against Sam for being to much about releasing product. I don't think he plans on delivering much product at all. The reason to invest isn't to gain profit but to avoid losing to an apocalyptic event which you may or may not personally believe, many Silicon Valley types do.

A safe Ai would be one that does not spell the end of Humanity or the planet. Ilya is famously obsessed with creating whats basically a benevolent AI god-mommy and deeply afraid for an uncontrollable, malicious Skynet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't think he plans on delivering much product at all

Well good news. If the product you're imagining is 'Skynet' or a 'god-mommy' both of those are science fiction and we don't need whatever this bullshit is to save us

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Your entitled to that opinion, so are others. Sutsekeva may be an actual loony.. or an absolute genius. Or both, that isn't up to debate here.

I am just explaining what this about because if you think this is “just another money raiser” you obviously havent paid enough attention to who this guy is exactly.

Super intelligence in Artificial intelligence is a wel defined term btw, in case your still confused. You may have seen them plaster on stuff like buzzwords but all of these definitions precede AI hype of last years.

ML = machine learning, algorithms that improve over time.

AI = artificial intelligence, machine learning with complex logic, mimicking real intelligence. <- we are here

AGI = artificial general intelligence. An Ai agent that functions intelligently at a level indistinguishable from a real human. <- expert estimate this will be archived before 2030

ASI = Artificial Super Intelligence Agi that transcends human intelligence and capacities in every wat.

It may not sound real to you but if you ever visited the singularity sub on reddit you will see how a great number of people do.

Also everything is science fiction till its not. Horseless chariots where science fiction so where cordless phones. The first airplane went up in 1903, 66 years later we landed in the moon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

The point is not that we can't imagine speculative technologies. The point is that this is a grift which distracts from the real and present threat of AI like the threats to privacy, artists' livelihoods and the internet itself which is being poisoned by LLM generated content

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