Business | Thinking fast and slow

A new lab and a new paper reignite an old AI debate

Two duelling visions of the technological future 

Ilya Sutskever
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AFTER SAM ALTMAN was sacked from OpenAI in November of 2023, a meme went viral among artificial-intelligence (AI) types on social media. “What did Ilya see?” it asked, referring to Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of the startup who triggered the coup. Some believed a rumoured new breakthrough at the company that gave the world ChatGPT had spooked Mr Sutskever.

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