# Digital Brains Will Become Better Than Biological Brains by Ilya Sutskever > “The day will come when the digital brains that live inside our computers will become as good, and even better, than our own biological brains. We call such an AI an AGI—Artificial General Intelligence.” > **— Ilya Sutskever**, *TEDAI, “The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI,” October 2023* ## Sources and Context - **Primary source:** [Ilya Sutskever’s TEDAI talk and recording](https://www.ted.com/talks/ilya_sutskever_the_exciting_perilous_journey_toward_agi) — verifies the wording, attribution and immediate source setting. - **Interpretive context:** Sutskever first defines artificial intelligence as digital brains inside large computers, then names the threshold at which those systems match and exceed biological brains as artificial general intelligence. The second sentence is retained because it identifies the category created by the predicted comparison. - **Editorial treatment:** The two consecutive spoken sentences are reproduced with punctuation normalized from the recording. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host Is Reusable and the Person Is the Delta]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Digital Minds|Digital Minds]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Ilya Sutskever|Ilya Sutskever]] - [[wiki/Digital Brain|Digital Brain]] - [[wiki/Machine Intelligence|Machine Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The day will come when the digital brains that live inside our computers will become as good, and even better, than our own biological brains. We call such an AI an AGI—Artificial General Intelligence.” — Ilya Sutskever, TEDAI, “The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI,” October 2023 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ilya-sutskever-digital-brains-better-biological-brains ```