Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

Ilya & I discuss SSI’s strategy, the problems with pre‑training, how to improve the generalization of AI models, and how to ensure AGI goes well. 00:00:00 – Explaining model jaggedness 00:09:39 – Emotions and value functions 00:18:49 – What are we scaling? 00:25:13 – Why humans generalize better than models 00:35:45 – Straight‑shotting superintelligence 00:46:47 – SSI’s model will learn from deployment 00:55:07 – Alignment 01:18:13 – “We are squarely an age of research company” 01:29:23 – Self‑play and multi‑agent 01:32:42 – Research taste