The exciting, perilous journey toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever

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🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Just weeks before the management shakeup at OpenAI rocked Silicon Valley and made international news, the company's cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever explored the transformative potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI), highlighting how it could surpass human intelligence and profoundly transform every aspect of life. Hear his take on the promises and perils of AGI — and his optimistic case for how unprecedented collaboration will ensure its safe and beneficial development.

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0:14.0	Well, it's safe to say it's been a turbulent time in tech of late, but just weeks
0:18.9	before the management shake up at Open AI Rock Silicon Valley and made international news.
0:24.0	The company's co-founder and chief scientist Ilia Sutzkova spoke at the TED AI conference.
0:29.8	In his talk he explores the transformative potential of artificial general intelligence
0:34.0	and shows that the stakes for the world really couldn't be any higher.
0:37.7	Enjoy and thanks for listening.
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0:47.0	Stay tuned after this talk to hear a sneak peek of this week's episode.
0:51.0	You've all experienced the of this week's episode.
0:52.8	You've all experienced the progress of artificial intelligence.
0:59.3	Many of you may have spoken with a computer
1:02.3	and a computer understood you and spoke back to you.
1:06.3	With the rate of progress being that it is, it's not difficult to imagine that at some point in the future our intelligent computers will become as smart or smarter than people.
1:20.0	And it's also not difficult to imagine that when that happens, the impact of such artificial intelligence is going to be truly vast.
1:34.0	And you may wonder, is it going to be okay
1:38.0	when technology is so impactful?
1:41.0	And here my goal is to point out the existence of a force that many of you may have not noticed.
1:48.0	That gives me hope that indeed we will be happy with the result.
1:56.0	So artificial intelligence, what is it and how does it work.
2:02.8	Well, it turns out that it's very easy to explain
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