| | | | | | | | “I am starting a new company,” said Sutskever. The company, headquartered in Palo Alto with offices in Tel Aviv, is led by Sutskever, alongside entrepreneur and investor Daniel Gross, and former OpenAI employee Daniel Levy. Gross previously co-founded the AI startup Cue, which Apple acquired in 2013 for $40-60 million. | | | | | | | Developing safe superintelligence | | | | | “Ilya Sutskever’s new company is guaranteed to succeed because superintelligence that is never achieved is guaranteed to be safe,” quipped Pedro Domingos, a Professor Emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. Jokes aside, SSI claims to have set up the world’s first lab dedicated solely to developing safe superintelligence. “We will pursue safe superintelligence in a straight shot, with one focus, one goal, and one product. We will do it through revolutionary breakthroughs produced by a small cracked team,” said Sutskevar. The company emphasised that safety and capabilities will be addressed simultaneously as technical problems require revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs. SSI aims to advance capabilities rapidly while ensuring that safety remains paramount. With a business model insulated from short-term commercial pressures, SSI is designed to maintain focus on safety, security, and progress, allowing for efficient scaling without distractions from management overhead or product cycles. Unpopular opinion: Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia recently told AIM that the AI industry’s reliance on scaling through more data and compute is yielding diminishing returns, noting that doubling training costs only increases quality by around 1%. Read more here. | | | | | | | Will SSI develop AGI before OpenAI? | | “The singular mission that Ilya has dedicated his life to – Safe Superintelligence – is the most important challenge in our lifetimes,” said investor and entrepreneur Mei Z, adding that he is a kind and compassionate human being who is building superintelligence that can behave kindly and compassionately to human beings. Further, Mei said that today, most thinking is done by humans, but soon, most of it will be done by machines. “Over the next few years, humans will build powerful machines that can reason and act. The chatbots we use today are nothing compared to the superintelligences we are about to train,” he added. He further said that superintelligences will very soon win gold medals in maths olympiads, make fundamental discoveries in maths and science, and act agentically in our multimodal world over long horizons. “We're at the steepest inflection point in the history of compute: we're racing to bring trillion-dollar clusters online to train billions of recursively self-improving superintelligent agents. We will arrive at a takeoff point,” said Mei. | | | | | | | Mei believes that no one has contributed to AGI more than Sutskever. He catalysed two major advancements: demonstrating GPUs' capability to train models like AlexNet, which revitalised AI research, and supporting Alec Radford’s scaling of GPT as an early proponent of Ashish Vaswani’s Transformers. “Ilya and Alex Krizhevsky proved to the world that we could use GPUs to train state-of-the-art models like AlexNet, bringing a beacon of hope to the field of AI which was withering in an AI winter, opening the floodgates for thousands of PhDs to feel inspired to enter the field of AI,” he added, saying that NVIDIA’s $3 trillion valuation is merely a byproduct of AlexNet’s decade-long legacy. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ola chief Bhavish Aggarwal recently announced Ola’s annual event, to be held on Independence Day this year, where all three of his companies—Ola Cabs, Ola Electric, and Krutrim—will be making certain announcements. | | | | | | | A new IBM Institute for Business Value study revealed that 49% of Indian CEOs are hiring for generative AI roles that didn’t exist last year. AI-native sales operating system, OrbitShift, recently secured $7 million in funding from Peak XV’s Surge and Stellaris Venture Partners to expand its footprint and customer base in the US. Tata Communications recently announced the launch of its unified/ single-vendor hosted Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) for global enterprises. Pure Storage unveiled advanced GenAI-powered storage solutions, including Evergreen//One, to enhance data centre security and performance for AI workloads. | | | | | | | Intuit's WiDS 2024: Celebrating Women's Achievements in Data Science | | | | | | | WiDS 2024 by Intuit is all set to empower and elevate women working in data science. Attend this one-day in-person conference to learn from and network with peers. | | | | | | | | | Cypher 2024 marks a significant expansion as it celebrates its 8th edition by branching out to the USA in addition to its already established presence in India. Browse through the links below to learn more about the different editions of Cypher 2024. These links will guide you to comprehensive event information, including agendas, speakers, registration details, and more. | | | | | Enjoying Sector 6 (formerly AIM Daily XO)? Share it with colleagues or friends – they can sign up here. We love hearing from our readers! Have thoughts on our new format? Questions, comments, or ideas are always welcome. If there’s a specific topic in AI or analytics that you're curious about, tell us! Reach out to us at info@analyticsindiamag.com. Stay tuned for more insights in our next edition!
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