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Ilya on deep learning in 2015 – by Nathan Lambert

Ilya Sutskever is renowned for his vision when it comes to deep learning. A lot of his now popular quotes come from his 2023 appearance on the Dwarkesh Podcast. I was recently sent this clip of him discussing deep learning in 2015 and was taken aback by how correct he was so long ago, and particularly by how little has changed. With this, I wanted to share an annotated transcript with my thoughts.

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Europe AI’s reckoning: Reinventing industries for a new era

In The Future of European Competitiveness, former European Central
Bank chief Mario Draghi sounded the alarm about this region’s economic
health. Finding solutions has only become more urgent as geopolitical
tensions rise. In this report, we explore the potential of artificial
intelligence (AI) to boost productivity and help Europe rediscover its
competitive edge.

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