@Atenov_D: OpenAI co-founder helped fire Sam Altman, lost, left - then raised $3B in silence and finally broke it in this intervie…

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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever discusses his new $3B venture and critiques current AI models in a rare interview. He argues that existing approaches generalize poorly compared to humans and hints at a different technical direction.

OpenAI co-founder helped fire Sam Altman, lost, left - then raised $3B in silence and finally broke it in this interview - he says every AI company including OpenAI is building toward a dead end, and he has a different technical approach he won't fully disclose > you will watch the man who co-authored AlexNet, GPT-3, and the transformer era explain why current models "generalize dramatically worse than people" and why that's the most fundamental unsolved problem in AI Bookmark & watch - filmed by the same podcaster Karpathy chose. This is only Ilya's second public interview since leaving OpenAI.

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