OpenAI co-founder: The era of AI pre-training is coming to an end, and trends such as agent AI will give rise to super intelligence

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, recently gave a speech at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024 conference in Vancouver, Canada, in which he believes that the era of AI pre-training is coming to an end and predicts the rise of AI superintelligence. Sutskever said that the speed of improving computing power through better hardware, software and machine learning algorithms exceeds the total amount of data available for training AI models. He compared data to fossil fuels, which will eventually run out. He said: "Data is not growing because we only have one Internet. You can even say that data is the fossil fuel of AI. It was created in a certain way, and now we use it. We have achieved peak data and there will be no more-we have to deal with the data we have." Sutskever predicts that agent AI, synthetic data and inference time computing are the next development direction of artificial intelligence, which will eventually give birth to super AI. (Cointelegraph)