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Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’

pivot-to-ai.com Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’

Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…

Fuck AI @lemmy.world

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I am jealous. I wish I had so much confidence in my speech that investors gave me billions on the promise of literally nothing

lemming investors be like:

What exactly qualifies as 'super intelligence' and what could it conceivably do that differentiates it from current AI? Sounds like another big ol' bucket of bullshit to me.
- Just a couple more GPUs bro, I’m sure it’s around the corner
- Oh, that’s easy. It just needs to be worth more than 100 billion dollars, which is the value threshold for regular artificial general intelligence.
- what exactly qualifies as super intelligence?
  Oy. This debate again?

MIRI outputs stealth science in the same way that United Aircraft Company makes Su-75. it can be only detected by careful analysis of their spending
- And like the Su-75, it's thoroughly unfit for purpose and exists to hype up the industry rather than actually serve a valuable role.

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