EP. 146 · 24.06.2026 · 24:00
A DECADE OF DEEP LEARNING, AND WHAT COMES NEXT
with Ilya Sutskever
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EPISODE BRIEF — EP. 146 · A DECADE OF DEEP LEARNING, AND WHAT COMES NEXT Guest: Ilya Sutskever · Published: 24.06.2026 · Duration: 24:00 【OVERVIEW】 Ilya Sutskever revisits the decade that began with sequence-to-sequence learning and ended with frontier language models — what the original bet got right, why pretraining as we know it has limits, and what the next era of agentic, reasoning systems may require. 【KEY TAKEAWAYS】 1. Looking back at sequence-to-sequence learning 2. What the original scaling bet got right 3. The limits of pretraining as we know it 4. Agents, reasoning and superintelligence 【CHAPTERS】 00:00 — Looking back at sequence-to-sequence learning 06:00 — What the original scaling bet got right 13:00 — The limits of pretraining as we know it 18:00 — Agents, reasoning and superintelligence 【TOPICS】Deep Learning · Research History · Superintelligence · SSI · Scaling 【WATCH】https://thedaopod.com/episodes/ep-146-ilya-sutskever-a-decade-of-deep-learning
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Ilya Sutskever revisits the decade that began with sequence-to-sequence learning and ended with frontier language models — what the original bet got right, why pretraining as we know it has limits, and what the next era of agentic, reasoning systems may require.
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EP. 146 · A DECADE OF DEEP LEARNING, AND WHAT COMES NEXT
Ilya Sutskever revisits the decade that began with sequence-to-sequence learning and ended with frontier language models — what the original bet got right, why pretraining as we know it has limits, and what the next era of agentic, reasoning systems may require.
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Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence · Former Chief Scientist, OpenAI
Co-founder and former Chief Scientist of OpenAI, co-author of AlexNet and of the sequence-to-sequence paper that helped launch modern deep learning. He now leads Safe Superintelligence Inc.
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