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Chat GPT's Creator Explains The Shocking Truth About How AI Understands the World | Ilya Sutskever
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Craig Smith sits down with Ilya Sutskever - Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Safe Superintelligence Inc. & former chief scientist at OpenAI and one of the primary minds behind GPT-3, GPT-4, and the deep learning revolution that preceded it - for a conversation that covers the intellectual history of deep learning and the hardest current questions simultaneously. Ilya's most important argument is one that most public discourse gets wrong: the critique that LLMs "just learn statistical patterns" misses what prediction at scale actually achieves. To predict text well - to truly compress it - a model must develop understanding of the true underlying processes that produced it. As models…