Ilya Sutskever
Person#11 trending in AI & Tech this week · most on Big Technology Podcast
Ilya Sutskever is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI). Previously, he served as the Chief Scientist of OpenAI, where he co-invented AlexNet and led pioneering research in deep learning and artificial intelligence.
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Mentions of Ilya Sutskever per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, ai & tech.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2 | 0.80‰ | 3 |
| Sep 10 | 0.30‰ | 1 |
| Sep 11 | 1.04‰ | 3 |
| Sep 25 | 0.23‰ | 1 |
| Oct 2 | 0.18‰ | 1 |
| Oct 7 | 0.94‰ | 4 |
Why is it trending?· Last 7 days
Ilya Sutskever’s views resurface in AI security and intelligence debates
Big Technology Podcast discussed Ilya Sutskever’s warning that vulnerable NeoClouds could be taken over by rogue agents to run more copies, and called for stronger cybersecurity.[1]
Sourcery’s Jonathan Siddharth cited Sutskever’s view that a good pretrained base model is “halfway to anywhere” while explaining how general-purpose models differ from task-specific systems.[2]
TBPN and its Diet edition both replayed Sutskever’s 2023 warning that valuing intelligence above other human qualities leads to trouble, arguing that the idea is playing out in real time.[3][4]
The shows therefore use Sutskever in different arguments: Big Technology focuses on AI infrastructure security, Sourcery on model generalization, and TBPN on the limits of intelligence as a human value.[1][3][5]
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- 1.Big Technology Podcast · Can AI Keep Growing Exponentially? Let’s Ask SemiAnalysis — With Dylan Patel and Jordan NanosAlex Kantrowitz · Oct 7 · Listen at 42:57 ↗
“Yep. Let's talk about security. because you know the first image in this report is a quote tweet of an Ilya Subskever post, which was made right after the Hugging Face incident. Ilya says, NeoClouds have limited cybersecurity. Next time age”
- 2.Sourcery · Frontier AI Is a Ferrari. Most Companies Need a Model Y | Turing CEOJonathan Siddharth · Oct 2 · Listen at 14:27 ↗
“a multi-turn conversation coherently. This is emergent behavior that generalizes, right? Pre-training is a little bit like you've trained a brain, this raw mass. And Ilya Sutskever used to say, like, a good pre-trained base model is like ha”
- 3.TBPN · Some Math Problems, Arsenal-2, Porsche Mission S | Walter Russell Mead, Kat Cole, Tarek Alaruri, Tyler Niday, Scott Morton, Josiah Meyer, Aarush SelvanJohn Coogan · Oct 7 · Listen at 21:27 ↗
“and don't think you're the smartest person in the room. No one really likes to know it all. But also, you're going to have a bad time if you value intelligence above all other human qualities. You're going to have a bad time. That was Ilya”
- 4.TBPN · OpenAI Math Breakthroughs, SpaceX’s $40B Nvidia Deal, Quant Firms Hiring Idea Guys | Diet TBPNJordi Hays · Oct 7 · Listen at 17:10 ↗
“very friendly and don't think you're the smartest person in the room no one really likes to know it all but also you're going to have a bad time if you if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you're going to have a bad ti”
- 5.Sourcery · Frontier AI Is a Ferrari. Most Companies Need a Model Y | Turing CEOJonathan Siddharth · Oct 2 · Listen at 14:09 ↗
“a multi-turn conversation coherently. This is emergent behavior that generalizes, right? Pre-training is a little bit like you've trained a brain, this raw mass. And Ilya Sutskever used to say, like, a good pre-trained base model is like ha”
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