Did you know Ilya Sutskever (
@ilyasut) was a
@Tesla shareholder in 2015?
Here he is asking
@elonmusk about self-driving cars. That same year, Musk helped recruit him from Google to co-found OpenAI.
When Google published the Transformer paper in 2017, Ilya immediately saw what almost nobody else did:
“Drop everything! Start working on the transformer! It’s going to be amazing,”
@scmallaby recounts in The Infinity Machine.
The bet was simple: if a model could predict the next word well enough, it wouldn’t just learn grammar. It would start to learn the world.
That bet became GPT. Then ChatGPT.
Nice hair, btw 😂