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Ilya Sutskever

Cofounder, Openai

Search every verified Ilya Sutskever interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and chief scientist of OpenAI, appeared on a podcast recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic. During the conversation, he discussed the state of artificial intelligence, stating that "the field of AI has been in a state of childhood and now it's exiting that state and it's entering a state of maturity." He added that AI is "very successful and also very impactful" and that its impact is growing, suggesting it would be wise to consider the impact of AI systems before releasing them. Sutskever also expressed confidence in deep learning, saying that "it's unwise to bet against deep learning" and that if a cognitive function can be performed by humans, "it doesn't take too long for some deep neural net to pop up that can do it, too." He discussed the generalization of neural networks, noting that over-parameterized networks may contain a small amount of information in their weights, which he said could explain their ability to generalize.

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