OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever received an award for his contributions to the field after speaking on a variety of topics Friday afternoon at NeurIPS, the annual AI conference.
Sutskever made predictions about “superintelligent AI.” AI is more capable than humans at many tasks, and I believe this will one day be achieved. Superintelligent AI will be “qualitatively different” from current AI and in some respects unrecognizable, Sutskever said.
Sutskever said that unlike today’s “very slightly agentic” AI, “(superintelligence) systems will actually be agents in a practical way.” They “reason” and become more unpredictable as a result. They will understand things through limited data. And they will become self-aware, Sutskever believes.
In fact, they may want rights. “If we have AI and all they want is to coexist with us and have rights, that’s not a bad end result,” Sutskever said.
After leaving OpenAI, Sutskever founded Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a research lab focused on general AI safety. SSI raised $1 billion in September.
