Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company
Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company
Safe Superintelligence, Inc. seeks to build hypothetical AI far beyond human capability.
Their "manifesto":
Superintelligence is within reach.
Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
We have started the world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
It's called Safe Superintelligence
SSI is our mission, our name, and our entire product roadmap, because it is our sole focus. Our team, investors, and business model are all aligned to achieve SSI.
We approach safety and capabilities in tandem, as technical problems to be solved through revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs. We plan to advance capabilities as fast as possible while making sure our safety always remains ahead.
This way, we can scale in peace.
Our singular focus means no distraction by management overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security, and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures.
We are an American company with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, where we have deep roots and the ability to recruit top technical talent.
We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world's best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.
If that's you, we offer an opportunity to do your life's work and help solve the most important technical challenge of our age.
Now is the time. Join us.
Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy
This honestly looks like a grift to get a nice salary for a few years on VC money. These are not random sales goons peddling shit they don't understand. They don't even bother to define "superintelligence", let alone what they mean by "safe superintelligence" .
I find it hard to believe this wasn't written with malicious intent. But maybe I am too cynical and they are so used to people kissing their asses, that they think their shit doesn't smell. But money definitely plays some role in this, they would be stupid to not cash in while the AI hype is hot.
There are very little people in the world that understand llms on such a deep technological level as Ilya.
I honestly don’t think there is much else in the world he is interested in doing other then work on aligning powerful ai.
Wether his almost anti commercial style end up accomplishing much i don't know but his intention are literal and clear.
What do you mean by anti-commercial style? I am not from North America, but this seems like pretty typical PR copytext for local tech companies. Lot's of pomp, banality, bombast and vague assertions of caring about the world. It almost reads like satire at this point, like they're trying to take the piss.
If his intentions are literal and clear, what does he mean by “superintelligence” (please be specific) and in what way is it safe?
He better watch out for the piledriver
He was careful not to mention AI...
I don't know about y'all, but a company called "safe super intelligence" sure doesn't sound like it could ever do anything sinister. Should probably go ahead and let this one train on government databases.
My not involved in human trafficking t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
The amount of AI companies is slowly passing the amount of cryptocurrencies. What's gonna be the new flavor of the year?
Just noticed that the cropped image makes it look like he is doing a nazi salute and then the first sentence of their "manifesto" is "Superintelligence is within reach." :)
Call me skeptical, but haven't you guys watched Terminator 2?
These guy will end up exploding their own facility with a hand detonator, when skynet becomes our overlords. You want to join that crowd?
I'm always going to Selfhosted my shit. Tell you that right now.
Unfortunately Terminator 2 is bit childish and naive in its script.
More realistically, these individuals will try and fly away with oligarch Peter Thiel to his end of the world bunker in New Zealand.
If in some fucked up reality this ever happens (IMO there are far more pressing problems in the world), I hope the New Zealanders will have a very long and unpleasant surprise in store for these individuals.