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Ilya Sutskever on AI: Transitioning from Scaling to Research, Generalization, and the Future of Superintelligence

Nov 26, 2025 · 00:34:59
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  • Ilya Sutskever declares 'age of scaling' is ending and marks return to 'age of research,' identifying severe lack of generalization compared to human learning as fundamental bottleneck
  • Paradox highlighted: models 'seem smarter than their economic impact would imply,' possibly due to researchers inadvertently 'reward hacking' evaluations rather than genuine capability gains
  • Future AI development requires continual learning systems that rapidly acquire knowledge like humans rather than finished minds, with emotions functioning as evolutionary value function for decision-making

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