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Sam Altman
American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. Born on April 22, 1985, in St. Louis, Missouri, and a Stanford University alumnus. He co-founded Loopt, a mobile location-based service. Altman is notably the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator
"I expect AI to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes."
"What we launch today is going to look very quaint relative to what we're busy creating for you now."
"I actually don’t think we’re all going to go extinct. I think it’s going to be great. I think we’re heading towards the best world ever. But when we deal with a dangerous technology as a society, we often say that we have to confront and successfully navigate the risks to get to enjoy the benefits."
“Humans know what other humans want. Humans are going to have better tools. We've had better tools before, but we're still very focused on each other.”
“AGI will be developed in the reasonably reasonably close-ish future and it will change the world much less than we all think and it will change jobs much less than we all think.”
"I have a lot of empathy for the general nervousness and discomfort of the world towards companies like us... We have our own nervousness, but we believe that we can manage through it and the only way to do that is to put the technology in the hands of people.”
(Reflecting on Elon Musk’s comment about changing OpenAI's name to "ClosedAI" as a condition to drop a lawsuit") “I think that speaks to the seriousness with which Elon means the lawsuit — and it's an astonishing thing to say." "I think this whole thing is unbecoming of the builder. I respect Elon as one of the great builders of our time and I know he knows what it's like to have haters attack him, and it makes me extra sad he's doing it to us. It makes a lot of people sad. There's a lot of people that looked up to him."
(pointing to an iPhone): “What you really want, is just this thing that is off helping you,” a “super-competent colleague that knows absolutely everything about my whole life, every email, every conversation I’ve ever had, but doesn’t feel like an extension.” “I don’t think it will require a new piece of hardware,” “I think you’ll be happy to have [a new device].”
“The thing I’m most worried about right now is, the sort of, the speed and magnitude of the socioeconomic change may have, and what the impacts on what that will be”
(On the impact of GPT-4 to job replacements and the economy) “I have a fear that we just won’t take that one seriously enough going forward, and it’s a massive, massive issue.”
“People are going to go use these tools to invent the future that we all collectively live in,” … “by the time we get to GPT-6 or -7, what one person can do will be incredibly increased. And I’m very excited for that, like I think that is the story of the world getting better.”
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher and a leading thinker in the realm of artificial intelligence ethics and existential risk, is renowned for his work on the implications of future technologies. Educated at the University of Gothenburg, Stockholm University, and King’s College London, he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy. Bostrom co-founded the World Transhumanist Association and later established the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, focusing on the long-term outcomes of human and artificial intelligence. His influential book, “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,” discusses the potential risks and challenges posed by the development of highly intelligent machines.
“Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.”
Jeff Bezos
Founder and CEO of Amazon, the e-commerce giant and one of the most valuable companies in the world. Originally from New Mexico, Bezos studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton before working on Wall Street. He started Amazon out of his garage in Seattle in 1994, quickly growing it into an online bookseller and later expanding into many other product categories.
"It’s interesting to me that large language models in their current form are not inventions, they’re discoveries….Large language models are much more like discoveries. We’re constantly getting surprised by their capabilities. They’re not really engineered objects."
“Our generative AI business is growing very, very quickly. Almost by any measure it's a pretty significant business for us already. And yet I would also say that companies are still in the relatively early stages”
Imran Chaudhri
British-American designer and the CEO of Humane Inc., which he co-founded with his wife, Bethany Bongiorno. He is renowned for his contributions to the user interface and interaction designs for the iPhone
"We really believe that we're only beginning to scratch the surface of what's possible. Embed advancements of AI, like in our device that's actually built to disappear and allow experiences to come forward, and we open up entirely new possible ways of how you interact with technology and how you interact with the world around you."
Bill Gates
Visionary computer programmer, co-founded Microsoft and revolutionized the technology industry with his innovations. His work at Microsoft not only made him one of the richest men in the world but also a highly influential philanthropist.
"AI is about to completely change how you use computers. The most exciting impact of AI agents is the way they will democratize services…. (they) will make therapy much more affordable…. (they) will supplement teachers' work and liberate them from paperwork…. (they) will replace search sites and e-commerce sites."
"The work that will be done over the next year (2024) is setting the stage for a massive technology boom later this decade."
"I actually think in mental counseling AIs will play a role, but boy, we're going to have to be very careful about that. That's going to require a lot of work that has not been done yet.”
“AI is absolutely the most important thing going on and it’ll shape humanity in a very dramatic way. It’s at the same time that we have synthetic biology and robotics being controlled by the AIs. So we have to keep in mind those other things. But the dominant change agent will be AI.”
“This technology in terms of its capability will reach superhuman levels.”
“The barrier to change isn’t caring too little, it’s too much complexity”
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis, born on July 27, 1976, is a British AI researcher, neuroscientist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded DeepMind, an AI company acquired by Google in 2015. Hassabis excelled in chess and academics, earning a degree in Computer Science from Cambridge and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London.
Before DeepMind, he co-designed the game “Theme Park” and founded Elixir Studios. DeepMind’s notable achievements under his leadership include AlphaGo, the first AI to defeat a human world champion in Go, and AlphaFold, which made significant advances in protein folding. Hassabis is a Fellow of the Royal Society, recognized for his influential work in AI.
“Many artificial intelligence start-ups are set to fail because they will not be able to manage the technology's demands for computing power”
"I think we'll be able to get down drug discovery from years to maybe months"
“But as we get closer to AGI, I think as a society, we need to start thinking about the types of architectures that get built.” “I think government and civil society and academia and all parts of society have a critical role to play here to shape, along with industry labs,” “a flourishing of many different types of systems that are perhaps sharded off those safe architectures that ideally have some mathematical guarantees or at least some practical guarantees around what they do.”
“And so we managed to actually fold, using AlphaFold (protein 3D structure prediction), in one year, all those 200 million proteins known to science. So that's a billion years of PhD time saved.” “which is what is needed for biologists to use it, and for drug design and for disease understanding,” and “We open-sourced AlphaFold and gave everything away on a huge database”
“One of the big things AI can do, and I've always thought about, is we're getting, you know, even back 20, 30 years ago, the beginning of the internet era and computer era, the amount of data that was being produced and also scientific data, just too much for the human mind to comprehend in many cases.” “And I think one of the uses of AI is to find patterns and insights in huge amounts of data and then surface that to the human scientists to make sense of and make new hypotheses and conjectures. So it seems to me very compatible with the scientific method.”
"If you imagine all the knowledge that exists in the world as a tree of knowledge, and then maybe what we know today as a civilization is some, you know, small subset of that. And I see AI as this tool that allows us, as scientists, to explore, potentially, the entire tree one day"
“I realized, in the last, sort of 20, 30 years, we haven't made much progress in understanding some of these fundamental laws. So I thought, why not build the ultimate tool to help us, which is AI. And at the same time, we could also maybe better understand ourselves and the brain better, by doing that too. So not only was it incredible tool, it was also useful for some of the big questions itself.”
“Some of that (the amount of investments brought to technology) has now spilled over into AI, which I think is a bit unfortunate. And it clouds the science and the research, which is phenomenal. In a way, AI’s not hyped enough but in some senses it’s too hyped. We’re talking about all sorts of things that are just not real.”
"I think what the ChatGPT moment did that changed was, and fair play to them to do that, was they demonstrated, I think somewhat surprisingly to themselves as well, that … the general public were ready to embrace these systems and actually find value in these systems. And so that was an interesting update on maybe the convergence of products and the science that actually, all of these amazing things we've been doing in the lab, so to speak, are actually ready for prime time for general use, beyond the rarefied world of science."
"Once AGI is built, what I'd like to use it for is to try and use it to understand the fundamental nature of reality."
"If we get this right, then I think we could be, you know, in this incredible new era of radical abundance, curing all diseases, spreading consciousness to the stars. You know, maximum human flourishing."
Geoff Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, is renowned for his pioneering work in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). He is particularly noted for his contributions to the development of deep learning algorithms. Hinton’s research has significantly advanced the understanding and application of neural networks, a key technology in AI. His work has been foundational in various practical applications of deep learning, such as in speech recognition, computer vision, and language understanding.
"I've come to the conclusion that the kind of intelligence we're developing is very different from the intelligence we have. "We're biological systems and these are digital systems. And the big difference is that with digital systems, you have many copies of the same set of weights, the same model of the world."
"One of the ways these systems might escape control is by writing their own computer code to modify themselves. And that’s something we need to seriously worry about."
“I am very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs”. “I was consulted by people in Downing Street and I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea,”
Jensen Huang
Co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, a leader in artificial intelligence and gaming. He founded NVIDIA in 1993 and holds BSEE and MSEE degrees. Huang was named Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year in 2017.
"I would say 12 years (ago) nobody expected the results where we get and I think anybody who would have said so back then would have over-exaggerated, you know, our understanding of the of the the rate of progress. There's no question that the rate of progress is high."
"If we define AGI as a piece of software, a computer that can take a whole bunch of tests and these tests reflect basic intelligence tests … that are fairly competitive to a normal human, I would say that within the next five years you're going to see AIs that can that can achieve those tests."
"You can't solve this new way of doing Computing by just designing a chip. Every aspect of the computer has fundamentally changed and so everything from networking to the switching to the way the computers are designed to the chips and self all of the software that sits on top of it in the methodology that pulls it all together. It's It's a big deal because it's a complete reinvention of the computer industry. … That's the amazing thing. We're in the beginning of a brand new generation of computing. It hasn't been reinvented in 60 years. This is why (it is) such a big deal. It's hard for people to wrap their head around it, but that's the great observation that we made is it includes the chip, but it’s not about the chip."
"Generative AI is the single most significant platform transition in computing history. In the last 40 years, nothing has been this big. It’s bigger than PC, it’s bigger than mobile, and it’s gonna be bigger than the internet, by far."
"Software Is Eating the World, but AI Is Going to Eat Software."
“If I gave an AI … every single test that you can possibly imagine, you make that list of tests and put it in front of the computer science industry, and I’m guessing in five years time, we’ll do well on every single one”
"Almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you it is vital that your children learn computer science, everybody should learn how to program. In fact, it's almost exactly the opposite. It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program and that the programming language is human. Everybody in the world is now a programmer this is the miracle this is of artificial intelligence.”
“I think that people ought to learn all kinds of skills,” (however) “programming is not going to be essential for you to be a successful person...but if somebody wants to learn to do so (program), please do - because we’re hiring programmers.”
"We (Nvidia) are now creating new types of electrons, tokens, using infrastructure we call AI factories to generate this new incredibly valuable thing called artificial intelligence. A new industry has emerged."
"Accelerated Computing has reached the tipping point. General Purpose Computing has run out of steam, we need another way of doing computing, so that we can continue to scale, drive down the cost of computing, and be sustainable."
"We’re going to train it on texts, images, graphs, and charts, just as we learn, watching TV. These models will have common sense by watching a lot of the world’s video combined with a lot of the world’s languages."
(The Blackwell platform) "will likely be the most successful product in our history”
“The next wave of AI is set to automate the $50 trillion in heavy industries.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Former chairman of Walt Disney Studios, co-founder and chairman of DreamWorks Animation, and co-founder of tech investment firm WndrCo. Known for reviving Disney’s animation business in the 1990s with hits like The Lion King. Later launched DreamWorks Animation, known for franchises like Shrek and Kung Fu Panda. Recently focused on mobile entertainment and investing in tech startups.
"I don’t know of an industry that will be more impacted (by AI) than any aspect of media, entertainment, and creation. In the good old days, you might need 500 artists and years to make a world-class animated movie. I don’t think it will take 10% of that three years from now.”
Sal Khan
Sal Khan, born on October 11, 1976, is an American educator and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Khan Academy, a non-profit educational organization offering free online courses, lessons, and practice in various subjects. Khan, who holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School, started Khan Academy in 2008 by creating YouTube videos to tutor his cousins. His engaging teaching style and accessible content have since reached millions of students worldwide. Khan Academy has transformed online education, making quality learning resources freely available to anyone with an internet connection. Sal Khan continues to advocate for accessible education for all.
"We’re at the cusp of using AI for probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen. And the way we're going to do that is by giving every student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor." "Just to put that in plain language, that could take your average student and turn them into an exceptional student. It can take your below-average student and turn them into an above-average student."
"I think all of us together have to fight like hell to make sure that we put the guardrails, we put in -- when the problems arise -- reasonable regulations. But we fight like hell for the positive use cases."
"Not only can it (AI) explain the answer, it can explain how you might want to teach it. It can help prepare the teacher for that material. It can help them create lesson plans... It’ll eventually help them create progress reports and help them, eventually, grade."
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla, born on January 28, 1955, in Pune, India, to a Punjabi family, is an Indian-American businessman and prominent venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems and established Khosla Ventures, focusing on technology-based disruptive companies. A significant figure in alternative energy and cleaner technology investments, Khosla is also a philanthropist involved in numerous non-profit endeavors, including The Indus Entrepreneurs and the Give India Foundation. His wife, Neeru, co-founded the CK-12 Foundation, aiming to provide affordable K-12 education in America and abroad.
"My bet is that we'll have more than a million in less than 10 years. I do think that in years to come, we'll have free doctors, free tutors for everybody, free lawyers, so they can access the legal system.”
"AI should be hugely deflationary over twenty five years. Capital should be scarce for a while, current measures of GDP and the economy will be less relevant but goods and services should be in great abundance. The key question is what are the right measures and the right question.”
“AI in 2024 is way more than nuclear in 1943 or even today… national cyber help and protection should be given and required for all SOTA AI. AI is not just cyber defense but also about winning economically and politically globally. The future of the world's values and political system depends on it.”
Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee, a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence and the tech industry, is renowned for his role in shaping the AI landscape in China. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Lee pursued his education in computer science at Columbia University and later earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He held key positions at Apple, SGI, Microsoft, and Google, significantly impacting the development of speech recognition technology and natural language processing. In 2009, he founded Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on developing Chinese high-tech companies. Lee has also authored several influential books on AI and its impact on society.
“This moment in AI is an inflection moment” “I believe AI is going to change the world more than anything in the history of humanity. More than electricity.”
Fei-Fei Li
Pioneer in the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence. Li is a professor at Stanford who has published groundbreaking research in image recognition. She led the development of ImageNet, a key dataset used to train AI systems. Li was the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and a vice president at Google, focused on AI initiatives. She co-founded AI4ALL to increase diversity in AI education.
"No matter where you come from, what background you have, if you’re passionate about this, you have a place [in AI],” “people from diverse backgrounds should try to ignore the way the field is portrayed by the media, which is to say very pale and male.”
Andrew McAfee
Andrew McAfee, an American researcher, author, and speaker, is notable for his work in the fields of digital economy and the impact of technology on business and society. A graduate of MIT, where he also earned his doctorate, McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management. He co-founded the Initiative on the Digital Economy at MIT and has authored several influential books, including “The Second Machine Age” and “Machine, Platform, Crowd.” His research delves into how digital technologies are transforming businesses, economies, and societies, emphasizing the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
“Once in a while, a technology comes along that is so powerful and so broadly applicable that it accelerates the normal march of economic progress. And like a lot of economists, I believe that generative AI belongs in that category. And these are called general-purpose Technologies and they have three characteristics … it's improving rapidly, it's diffusing rapidly, and it's already generating lots of complimentary Innovations”
Chamath Palihapitiya
Venture capitalist, engineer, and the CEO of Social Capital, known for his focus on technology and healthcare investments. Originally from Sri Lanka, he moved to Canada as a child and later graduated from the University of Waterloo. Palihapitiya joined AOL, followed by a significant tenure at Facebook as VP of User Growth. His move into venture capital has been marked by investments in companies like Slack and Yammer, and he is also known for his outspoken views on social issues and economic policies.
(AI productivity gains:) "If you think about a world where there's a million little companies (or 50 million companies, or 500 million companies) that exist because they're one in two person teams, that can build stuff, that seems pretty reasonable and logical as the outcome." "There's a lot of sort of like Financial engineering that kind of goes away in that world (a world of AI-powered two-person startups), …. I think the job of the venture capitalist changes really profoundly. I think there's a reasonable case to make that it doesn't exist."
Elon Musk
South African-born entrepreneur, renowned for founding SpaceX and Tesla, marking significant advances in electric vehicles and space travel. He started his entrepreneurial journey with X.com in 1999, which later became PayPal, and went on to establish SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003.
"There will come a point where no job is needed. You can have a job if you want to have a job for personal satisfaction, but the AI will be able to do everything.”
“AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined.”
“Any company not spending at this level, and doing so efficiently, cannot compete”
(In the future) "Probably none of us will have a job,", "If you want to do a job that’s kinda like a hobby, you can do a job,", “But otherwise, AI and the robots will provide any goods and services that you want.”
Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella, an Indian-American business executive, currently serves as the CEO and executive chairman of Microsoft. Born in Hyderabad, India, Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 and rose through the ranks to become CEO in 2014. Under his leadership, Microsoft has seen significant growth in cloud computing revenue and market capital, marked by his alternative approach to leadership.
"I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity. And then distilling a set of principles. Algorithmically, for example, how can AI be programmed to care for humans — not have bias built in? How can it be trustworthy?”
“I think [a global regulatory approach to AI is] very desirable, because I think we’re now at this point where these are global challenges that require global norms and global standards.” “Otherwise, it’s going to be very tough to contain, tough to enforce, and tough to quite frankly move the needle even on some of the core research that is needed.” “But that said, I must say, that there seems to be broad consensus that is emerging.”
“I don't think the world will put up anymore with any of us (in the tech industry) coming up with something that has not thought through safety, trust, equity. These are big issues."
“We are building Azure as the world’s computer, with more than 60 data center regions around the globe, and we continue to expand with a focus on sustainability.”
"We’ve always been a platform company, and our goal is to build the most complete end-to-end stack—from infrastructure to foundation models, to data, to developer tools, to extensibility—so you can apply the power of this new generation of AI to build your own applications."
“I think the mistake we make is to think of these AIs as human. They’re not human. They’re machines that can reason over data, and they can perform specific tasks incredibly well.”
Andrew Ng
Renowned computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He co-founded Google Brain, served as Chief Scientist at Baidu, and co-founded Coursera, an online education platform. Ng has also been a professor at Stanford University, focusing on AI and machine learning, and has significantly contributed to the development of deep learning and its application in the real world.
"Just as electricity and the Internet transformed the world, I think the rise of modern A.I. technology will create a lot of opportunities both for new startups and for incumbent companies to transform. With the rise of the Internet, older companies like Microsoft and Apple transformed, even though they weren’t Internet companies before. But there were also startups: Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Baidu.”
"I would say the most scarce resource today is actually talent, because AI needs to be customized for your business context. You can’t just download an open-source package and apply it to your problem”
“I think that there is no clear path to how AI can become sentient,” he says. If it does, it might take hundreds or thousands of years. “Worrying about evil AI killer robots today is a little bit like worrying about overpopulation on the planet Mars.”
“Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it’s still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is”
"There are emerging new AI development platforms that shift the focus from asking you to write lots of code to asking you to focus on providing data. And this turns out to be much easier for a lot of people to do." “Building AI systems has been out of reach for most people, but that does not have to be the case. In the coming era for AI, we’ll empower everyone to build AI systems for themselves, and I think that will be incredibly exciting future.”
"Today, AI is in the hands of the high priests and priestesses. These are the highly skilled AI engineers, many of whom work in the big tech companies. And most people have access only to the AI that they build for them. I think that we can build a much richer society if we can enable everyone to help to write the future."
Barack Obama
Served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. First African American president; originally from Hawaii and graduate of Columbia and Harvard Law. Served as Illinois state senator before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. Defeated John McCain in 2008 election on themes of hope and change, then reelected in 2012. Presided over economy recovery, healthcare reform, end of Iraq War, and initiatives on climate change and social justice.
"I talked to one executive .... I asked him, “Well, when you say this technology (AI) you think is going to be transformative, give me some analogy.” He said, “I sat with my team, and we talked about it. After going around and around, we decided maybe the best analogy was electricity.” And I thought, “Well, yeah, electricity. That was a pretty big deal."
Hadi Partovi
Hadi Partovi, an influential entrepreneur and advocate for computer science education, has made significant contributions to the tech industry and education sector. Born in Tehran, Iran, he immigrated to the United States as a child, later studying computer science at Harvard University. Partovi co-founded the education non-profit Code.org, renowned for its global “Hour of Code” initiative, aiming to expand access to computer science education in schools. He has also played key roles in the success of various tech companies, including co-founding Tellme Networks and serving as an early advisor and investor in Facebook, Dropbox, and Airbnb. His work focuses on bridging the gap in computer science education and promoting diversity in the tech field.
"It's losing their job to somebody else who knows how to use AI. That is going to be a much greater displacement.” "It's not that the worker gets replaced by just a robot or a machine in most cases, especially for desk jobs, it's that some better educated or more modernly educated worker can do that job because they can be twice as productive or three times as productive." “The imperative is to teach how AI tools work to every citizen, and especially to our young people."
Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google, has been a pivotal figure in the tech industry. Born in Tamil Nadu, India, Pichai earned his degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering, later obtaining an M.S. from Stanford University in Material Sciences and Engineering, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Joining Google in 2004, he made significant contributions to products like Google Chrome and Android, ascending to CEO of Google in 2015 and Alphabet Inc. in 2019, steering the companies through major expansions and innovations.
“In my personal experience, access to technology was an important driver of opportunity. .... With AI, it’s even more important to democratize access to what will be one of the most profound technologies we have worked on. So I’m deeply motivated to make sure we develop this technology in a way that the entire world benefits.”
"One of the ways you can do the wrong thing is by listening to noise out there and playing to someone else's dance music," in response to Nadella's remark: "And I want people to know that we made them dance, and I think that'll be a great day," February 2023 after the revamped Bing search engine launch.
"I think language does encode a lot of intelligence, probably more than people thought. It explains the successes of large language models to a great extent. But my intuition tells me, as humans, there’s a lot more to the way we consume information than language alone."
"I hope the web is much richer in terms of modality. Today, I feel like the way humans consume information is still not fully encapsulated in the web. Today, things exist in very different ways — you have webpages, you have YouTube, etc. But over time, I hope the web is much more multimodal, it’s much richer, much more interactive. It’s a lot more stateful, which it’s not today."
Ilya Sutskever
Canadian AI researcher and computer scientist. Born in Russia, Sutskever immigrated to Canada at a young age and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under Geoffrey Hinton. He co-founded OpenAI, where he serves as Chief Scientist, and has made significant contributions to the development of deep learning, including work on neural networks and language models like GPT. Prior to OpenAI, he was part of the Google Brain team, contributing to the advancement of AI technologies.
"We've identified a mountain that's a bit different from what I was working on... Once you climb to the top of this mountain, the paradigm will change. Everything we know about AI will change once again." [Context: Sutskever describes the transformative potential of his work at SSI and how it represents a new phase in AI development.]
"The world is going to change so much when we get to this point that to offer you the definitive plan of what we'll do is quite difficult. I can tell you the world will be a very different place." (Context: Sutskever explains the profound and unpredictable changes AI will bring)
"Everyone just says 'scaling hypothesis'. Everyone neglects to ask, what are we scaling?" (Context: Sutskever critiques the common assumptions about AI scaling, hinting at a shift in the foundational understanding of AI's potential.)
"At this point, all AI companies are not open-sourcing their primary work. The same holds true for us. But I think that hopefully... there will be many opportunities to open-source relevant superintelligence safety work."
Stephen Wolfram
British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman known for his work in computational science. He is the creator of Mathematica, a powerful computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields, and the principal designer of the Wolfram Language, which is integral to Mathematica. Wolfram has also authored several books, including “A New Kind of Science,” where he explores cellular automata and complex systems, proposing that simple computational programs can model and explain the complexity of the universe. His unique approach to computational science has influenced various scientific and technological fields.
"Aristotle founded or discovered logic by observing the world. ChatGPT thinks logically. Why? Because it notices all the logic in the data in its training set.”
“...the thing that people should be doing is to learn how to think broadly…learn what types of questions to ask…much of (today’s) education is based on industrial age thinking of learning to build specific things...”
“Education needs to move to teaching people how to ask the right questions”
“The first thing to realize is AIs will be suggesting all kinds of things that one might do just as a GPS gives one directions for what one might do. And many people will just follow those suggestions. But one of the features it has is you can't predict everything about what it will do. And sometimes it will do things that aren't things we thought we wanted.”
“Throughout human history, the one thing that's progressively changed is the development of technology. And technology is often about automating things that we used to have to do ourselves. I think the great thing technology has done is provide this taller and taller platform of what becomes possible for us to do. And I think the AI moment that we're in right now is one where that platform just got ratcheted up a bit.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook), is a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. As the driving force behind the world’s largest social media platform, Mr. Zuckerberg has revolutionized how people connect and share information globally. His vision for an open, digitally connected world has had a profound impact on modern communication and community building. Despite his immense success, the billionaire remains dedicated to using his influence and resources to advance initiatives in education, science, and human rights through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative he co-founded with his wife.
(In response to a someone asking who Huang’s is): “He's (Jensen Huang) like Taylor Swift, but for tech”