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Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’

pivot-to-ai.com Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’

Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…

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I am jealous. I wish I had so much confidence in my speech that investors gave me billions on the promise of literally nothing

What exactly qualifies as 'super intelligence' and what could it conceivably do that differentiates it from current AI? Sounds like another big ol' bucket of bullshit to me.
- Oh, that’s easy. It just needs to be worth more than 100 billion dollars, which is the value threshold for regular artificial general intelligence.
- Just a couple more GPUs bro, I’m sure it’s around the corner
- what exactly qualifies as super intelligence?
  Oy. This debate again?