# Superintelligence Is What the Field Is Building by Ilya Sutskever > “I want to talk a little bit about superintelligence, just a bit, because that is obviously where this field is headed; this is obviously what’s being built here. The thing about superintelligence is that it will be different qualitatively from what we have, and my goal in the next minute is to try to give you some concrete intuition of how it will be different, so that you yourself could reason about it.” > **— Ilya Sutskever**, *NeurIPS Test of Time talk, December 13, 2024* ## Sources and Context - **Primary source:** [recording of Sutskever’s NeurIPS 2024 Test of Time talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bafYZGklSQg) — verifies the wording, attribution and immediate source setting. - **Interpretive context:** Sutskever moves from a retrospective on sequence-to-sequence learning into a forward account of superintelligence. The expanded passage preserves both the destination and his reason for discussing it: he expects a qualitative, not merely quantitative, discontinuity from present systems. - **Editorial treatment:** The complete contiguous passage at approximately 14:36–15:02 is reproduced with punctuation supplied from the recoverable recording transcript. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Ilya Sutskever|Ilya Sutskever]] - [[wiki/Superintelligence|Superintelligence]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/Technological Evolution|Technological Evolution]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “I want to talk a little bit about superintelligence, just a bit, because that is obviously where this field is headed; this is obviously what’s being built here. The thing about superintelligence is that it will be different qualitatively from what we have, and my goal in the next minute is to try to give you some concrete intuition of how it will be different, so that you yourself could reason about it.” — Ilya Sutskever, NeurIPS Test of Time talk, December 13, 2024 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ilya-sutskever-superintelligence-field-building ```