Ilya Sutskever

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#	Date	Post	↓ Outlier	Views	Likes	Reposts	Bookmarks
1	Nov 20, '23	I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the compa	268×	28.9M	31k	3.4k	3.5k
2	Oct 7, '23	if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time	91.9×	9.9M	24k	3.5k	4.5k
3	Jun 19, '24	I am starting a new company:	69.3×	7.5M	30k	3k	3.2k
4	May 14, '24	After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is	55.1×	5.9M	25k	2.2k	2.7k
5	May 14, '24	View post on X	44.6×	4.8M	9.5k	421	593
6	Dec 15, '22	Machine learning is just statistics. On steroids. Lots and lots of steroids.	39.2×	4.2M	13k	998	424
7	Nov 22, '23	There exists no sentence in any language that conveys how happy I am:	26.8×	2.9M	11k	471	550
8	Sep 4, '24	Mountain: identified. Time to climb	26.1×	2.8M	10k	772	958
9	Sep 4, '25	a revolutionary breakthrough if i've ever seen one	23.4×	2.5M	23k	909	1.4k
10	Mar 27, '22	wake up from the deep dream	22.8×	0	16k	587	74
11	Jul 3, '25	I sent the following message to our team and investors: — As you know, Daniel Gross’s time with us has been winding down, and as of June 29 he is officially no longer a part of SSI	22.4×	2.4M	14k	739	1.5k
12	Jun 19, '22	i find it both obvious and incredible that a neural network is a digital brain that lives inside a computer (and that actually kinda works)	22×	0	15k	647	185
13	Sep 29, '23	Ego is the enemy of growth	19.9×	2.1M	4k	513	447
14	Oct 14, '25	truly the greatest day ever🎗️	17.4×	1.9M	16k	669	882
15	Dec 1, '23	❤️	14.8×	1.6M	6.6k	205	185
16	Sep 12, '22	seeing reality as it is and not the way we want it to be is hard work, actually	14.3×	0	9.4k	614	148
17	Sep 27, '23	In the future, once the robustness of our models will exceed some threshold, we will have wildly effective and dirt cheap AI therapy. Will lead to a radical improvement in people	14.3×	1.5M	2.4k	231	373
18	Sep 5, '22	Gotta teach the AGI to love	10.9×	0	5.4k	761	417
19	Feb 9, '22	it may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious	10.7×	0	3.9k	616	696
20	Sep 30, '23	Just stumbled upon a pretty good abbreviation to “just ask chatgpt”: chask it!	10.5×	1.1M	1.2k	76	82
21	Sep 14, '22	it's really hard to do, but it's so important to put yourself in the shoes of the other person	10.1×	0	6.9k	324	75
22	Jun 19, '24	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 t	9.4×	1M	6.2k	478	575
23	Oct 8, '24	Congratulations to @geoffreyhinton for winning the Nobel Prize in physics!!	8.9×	964k	12k	589	361
24	Jun 27, '20	Epilepsy causes seizures: the brain gets so overexcited that it malfunctions. One way to “cure” extreme epilepsy is to sever the connection between the hemispheres, making the brai	8.9×	0	5.2k	664	131
25	May 2, '22	less judgement, more forgiveness	8.2×	0	5.1k	530	55
26	Oct 10, '24	And congratulations to @demishassabis and John Jumper for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry!!	7.6×	818k	6.5k	190	216
27	Aug 13, '23	It’s a mistake to let an uncertain future ruin the present	5.8×	630k	2.1k	218	174
28	Dec 31, '17	The ML wish of 2018: may all your local minima be global, your variance bounded, your labelled data plentiful, and your compute massive!	4.3×	0	1.9k	654	16
29	Feb 16, '22	Crypto made no sense to me; now it does	4.2×	0	2.5k	208	100
30	Sep 23, '23	Wagmi	4.1×	447k	1.2k	147	76
31	Sep 1, '23	Little known fact: Many of OpenAI’s key results, including the Dota 2 bot and the pre-training of GPT-4, are thanks to the brilliant Jakub Pachocki @merettm	4.1×	442k	855	202	97
32	Dec 16, '18	Studying math must be so much easier now that ML is popular. Derivatives, high-d spaces, probability, statistics, and eigenvectors all become alive in ML. Beats computing planetary	4.0×	0	2.2k	345	58
33	Feb 13, '22	the bitter lesson, illustrated:	3.5×	0	2.2k	183	68
34	Sep 25, '23	Empathy in life and business is underrated	3.5×	374k	1.7k	236	129
35	Mar 15, '22	AI engineering (as opposed to AI science) is underrated, even today	3.1×	0	1.9k	124	80
36	Nov 19, '18	I’ve been upgraded to Chief Scientist of OpenAI	3.1×	0	2.2k	37	12
37	May 5, '23	It’s not a religion if it’s true	3.1×	331k	803	90	77
38	Jan 20, '23	View post on X	3.0×	327k	976	68	53
39	Mar 21, '22	In the future, it will be obvious that the sole purpose of science was to build AGI	3.0×	0	1.4k	204	118
40	Feb 8, '23	Many believe that great AI advances must contain a new “idea”. But it is not so: many of AI’s greatest advances had the form “huh, turns out this familiar unimportant idea, when do	2.9×	317k	1.6k	215	198
41	Aug 2, '23	Great Potential: You!	2.7×	296k	708	66	42
42	Jun 17, '23	There’s an amusing anti correlation between networking and actually working	2.7×	291k	1.6k	143	159
43	Jan 27, '22	Alchemy exists; it just goes under the name “deep learning”	2.7×	0	1.5k	208	66
44	Feb 10, '21	Real progress in AI can only be achieved through a very intense work ethic	2.5×	0	1.3k	144	114
45	Oct 22, '25	@karinanguyen Really cool project!!	2.4×	263k	726	9	43
46	Oct 20, '22	Children are the ultimate expression of skin in the game in the future	2.4×	0	1.6k	92	50
47	Jul 5, '21	if you believe in deep learning, deep learning will believe in you!	2.4×	0	1.3k	150	39
48	Sep 26, '19	Really enjoyed the (non OpenAI) ICLR submission that trained a transformer on symbolic math. The surprise: it beat Mathematica on symbolic integration and diff eq solving by a _ver	2.1×	0	978	210	112
49	Jul 22, '21	Deep learning is a free lunch	2.1×	0	1.3k	94	33
50	Sep 7, '23	Congratulations to my cofounder @gdb for being featured in the Time 100 AI list! It’s been a massive privilege to have worked together with you all these years!	2.1×	223k	670	27	29
51	Jul 31, '23	Criticizing a decision is, to a first order approximation, 100x easier than making one	2.1×	222k	1.4k	119	116
52	Jul 22, '19	Super exciting news: Microsoft is investing $1B into OpenAI, and we're partnering to build giant NN computers within Azure that will train giant NNs!	2.0×	0	1k	202	28
53	Feb 20, '22	To understand the danger of aggressively censoring misinformation, imagine your worst political enemies doing so to ideas you hold sacred	2.0×	0	1.2k	98	30
54	Apr 4, '20	View post on X	2.0×	0	1.1k	153	37
55	May 1, '22	it is in fact a big deal to make a small but real contribution that's 100% not fake	2.0×	0	1.3k	68	25
56	May 17, '20	the brain may as well be deterministic for all intents and purposes, yet it feels like we have free will. a possible reason is that our model of ourselves is not ourselves, so our	2.0×	0	1k	118	104
57	Apr 4, '22	An AI engineer is the point of contact between magic and reality	2.0×	0	1.1k	141	55
58	Apr 2, '23	Powerful and non obvious scientific ideas, once internalized, usually become blindingly obvious. This makes it hard to appreciate just how innovative a well known idea has been in	2.0×	212k	880	70	60
59	Jun 23, '23	A one sentence articulation (of existing ideas) for why AI alignment need not be straightforward: humans can lie, hide their intent (alignment), and do so for years. Why not AGI? T	1.9×	203k	753	98	80
60	Jul 30, '23	The biggest trick our brains play is to create the illusion of understanding what’s going on, both around us and in the world	1.8×	197k	1.5k	188	161
61	Mar 20, '20	the most stunning advance in graphics that i’ve seen in a long while: just infer the voxel grid with an MLP. Of course it’ll work!	1.8×	0	748	182	139
62	Mar 27, '22	Machine learning is the physics of emergence	1.8×	0	1k	92	70
63	Jul 20, '23	Beware of ideas that, as a consequence of believing in them, make you feel superior to other people	1.8×	191k	1.8k	238	226
64	Jun 27, '22	View post on X	1.7×	0	919	104	76
65	Nov 29, '22	The transformer is well named, as it transformed everything	1.6×	0	1.1k	52	29
66	Apr 10, '22	the biggest lesson from deep learning is that you just gotta believe	1.6×	0	934	100	39
67	Apr 28, '22	many great deep learning advances are so obvious in hindsight that it’s hard to tell what was big deal all about	1.6×	0	927	84	44
68	Aug 1, '23	Wrong motivation -> wrong results	1.5×	158k	721	90	69
69	Apr 18, '22	the long term goal is to build AGI that loves people the way parents love their children	1.4×	0	656	74	60
70	May 19, '22	i continue to find it incredible that unsupervised learning went from utterly intractable to trivial seemingly without anyone batting an eye	1.4×	0	824	64	54
71	May 19, '22	Given that the brain is just a bunch of big matrix vector products, linear algebra deserves more appreciation	1.4×	0	702	53	48
72	May 8, '20	Had a lot of fun chatting with @lexfridman!	1.4×	0	832	78	44
73	Nov 1, '20	The only thing I find more amazing than the rate of progress in AI is the rate in which we get accustomed to it	1.4×	0	854	84	21
74	Sep 17, '23	I feel fortunate that a place like the Bay Area exists	1.4×	148k	635	19	28
75	Mar 21, '19	To me the Boltzmann Machine is the most elegant model ever by far, so I'm happy we made progress on its close cousin -- the Energy-Based Model:	1.4×	0	663	138	65
76	Aug 24, '22	Congratulations to my PhD adviser @geoffreyhinton for winning the Royal Medal! Totally unsurprising :)	1.4×	0	838	62	41
77	Apr 1, '21	symbolic AI feature engineering is the future	1.3×	0	723	71	54
78	Jun 29, '21	powered by OpenAI Codex: a large neural network that can code pretty well!	1.3×	0	706	87	56
79	Oct 31, '19	I asked my brother Noam to draw an OpenAI-themed painting, and you won't believe what happened next	1.3×	0	803	67	27
80	Oct 1, '20	The Bitter lesson does not say to not bother with methods research. It says to not bother with methods that are handcrafted datapoints in disguise.	1.3×	0	593	44	145
81	Jan 6, '23	If an explanation is long, there’s a high chance that it’s wrong	1.3×	136k	681	57	54
82	Oct 21, '20	It can be hard to tell where memorization ends and generalization begins	1.3×	0	760	53	35
83	Apr 24, '19	Evolutionary prior knowledge is the dark matter of human intelligence	1.2×	0	692	109	16
84	Jan 5, '21	Synthetic capybaras in different styles	1.2×	0	648	84	22
85	Aug 14, '22	View post on X	1.2×	0	614	64	80
86	Jul 1, '23	What do people and artificial neural networks agree on? That attention is all you need	1.2×	127k	874	91	60
87	Sep 4, '20	the problem with academia is that its main contact with reality is through reviewer #2	1.2×	0	714	68	19
88	Apr 15, '22	philosophy breakthrough	1.1×	0	642	100	29
89	Apr 1, '22	I feel neural networks are getting a bit too large these days	1.1×	0	704	31	23
90	Apr 15, '22	Jokes aside, this is the correct solution to impossible problems of this kind: find the hidden flaw in the assumption	1.1×	0	620	76	43
91	Jan 30, '19	ML is like alchemy, turning silicon into spirits and ghosts	1.1×	0	595	96	26
92	Feb 4, '21	Today, telling someone that they speak like a language model is an insult. But in the future, it'll be a compliment.	1.1×	0	639	49	27
93	Sep 19, '22	The massive positive benefits of competition are invisible and are often taken for granted	1.0×	0	588	47	24
94	May 6, '23	The meaning of life is neural net training (parenting is a special case)	1.0×	110k	682	67	68
95	Nov 3, '20	“What I cannot create, I do not understand“ - Richard Feynman, making an early case for likelihood-based generative models	1.0×	0	600	57	30
96	Nov 2, '22	View post on X	1.0×	0	626	42	20
97	Dec 31, '22	Happy new year! May all our AGIs love humanity	1.0×	108k	646	78	20
98	Dec 27, '18	Congratulations to Geoff Hinton for being named the highest Canadian honor that exists! Been truly great being his student.	1.0×	0	621	55	4
99	Sep 27, '22	I bet that when communism first came out it was utterly unstoppably convincing	0.9×	0	573	18	20
100	Mar 16, '23	One of life’s great pleasures is to work with brilliant and kind colleagues	0.7×	77k	587	44	32

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