Ilya Sutskever
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Ilya Sutskever is a machine-learning researcher.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Current role: Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (CEO from mid-2025) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 1986, Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), Soviet Union; grew up in Jerusalem, moved to Canada at 16 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: University of Toronto: BSc in mathematics (2005), MSc (2007) and PhD (2013) in computer science, advised by Geoffrey Hinton (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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28 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Models look far better on evals than they are in the world because researchers, inadvertently, take inspiration from the evals when they build RL environments. (opens korrents.com)
“And one of the one thing you could do, and I think that's something that is done inadvertently, is that people take inspiration from the evals.”
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Today's models are the student who drilled 10,000 hours for the programming contest, which is exactly why what they learn does not carry anywhere else. (opens korrents.com)
“The models are much more like the first student but even more because then we say okay so the model should be good at competitive programming so let's get every single competitive programming problem ever and then…”
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There is no human analogue to pre-training — neither childhood nor evolution is the same thing as it. (opens korrents.com)
“I don't think there is a human analog to pre-training.”
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Models look far better on evals than they are in the world because researchers, inadvertently, take inspiration from the evals when they build RL environments. (opens korrents.com)