Reasoning Models & the AGI DebateIlya Sutskever (Reuters)Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever says results from scaling up pretraining have plateaued

Said that results from scaling up pretraining have plateaued

Why it matters

The first public statement of skepticism about pretraining scaling

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Pressmalaymail.comhttps://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2024/11/12/openai-and-rivals-seek-new-path-to-smarter-ai-as-current-methods-hit-limitations/156551

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