Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI speak on a variety of topics at NeurIPS, the annual AI conference, on Friday afternoon before accepting an award for his contributions to the field.
Sutskever gave his predictions for a “superintelligent” AI, an AI more capable than humans at many tasks, which he believes will be achieved at some point. Superintelligent AI will be “qualitatively different” from the AI we have today, Sutskever said, and in some ways unrecognizable.
“[Superintelligent] The systems are actually going to be agents in a real way,” Suktsever said, unlike the current crop of “very lightly agentic” AIs. They will “reason” and become more unpredictable as a result. They will understand things from limited data. And they will be self-aware, Sutskever believes.
In fact, they may want rights. “It’s not a bad end result if you have AI and all they want is to coexist with us and just have rights,” Sutskever said.
After leaving OpenAI, Sutskever founded a lab, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), focused on general AI safety. SSI raised $1 billion in September.