Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

Ilya Sutskever, one of the leading AI scientists behind ChatGPT, reflects on his founding vision and values. In conversations with the film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei as he was developing the chat language model between 2016 and 2019, he describes his personal philosophy and makes startling predictions for a technology already shaping our world. Reflecting on his ideas today, amid a global debate over safety and regulation, we consider the opportunities as well as the consequences of AI technology. Ilya discusses his ultimate goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a computer system that can do any job or task that a human does, but better', and questions whether the AGI arms race will be good or bad for humanity.

These filmed interviews with Ilya Sustkever are part of a feature length documentary on artificial intelligence, called iHuman

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