A few days ago,OpenAI Former Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever Returned to his alma mater, the University of Toronto, to deliver a personal address upon receiving an honorary doctorate.
Ilya opened by sharing his personal mindset: accepting reality, trying not to regret the past, and trying to improve the situation. He then states that we are all in a truly extraordinary time - as AI The emergence of the
Ilya admits that today's AI has already changed what it means to be a 'student' in a big way, and much more. Ilya says that AI is capable of doing more than we ever imagined, and that the immediate challenge is 'how AI will affect our jobs and careers', but also a deeper one - the future of AI is going to be unprecedented and extremely dramatic. The future of AI will be unprecedented and dramatic.
The question "What happens when AI can do all our work?" is one that Ilya believes needs to be taken seriously. is a question that Ilya believes needs to be taken seriously. You may not care about AI, but AI will care about you," he cautions.
Therefore, Ilya suggests that in the age of AI, once you start using AI to understand what the most advanced AI can do, you will gradually build up an intuition. Slowly, we'll get a sense of what AI is capable of, so we'll stop being afraid of AI and be able to take control of it and realize the power that the new technology can bring to us.
Finally, Ilya emphasized:
The challenges posed by AI are the greatest in human history. But if we meet them well, the rewards will also be the greatest in human history.