Finite Data, Infinite Consequences: The Rise of Agentic AI
Today I would like to briefly share a few thoughts on Ilya Sutskever’s predictions and assumptions. Here are a few of his statements from this week:
“Next-generation models, he predicted, are going to “be agentic in a real way.”
“We’ve achieved peak data and there’ll be no more,”
“Pre-training as we know it will unquestionably end,”
Next-generation models, he predicted, are going to “be agentic in a real ways.”
You can read the whole article here: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/13/24320811/what-ilya-sutskever-sees-openai-model-data-training (The Verge)
The idea that we have reached the “data peak” seems somewhat paradoxical in a world drowning in information. And yet it is true: the internet is not infinite; it is just a vast mirror of ourselves. What we call “data” is a finite reflection of human experience — our knowledge, mistakes, beauty, and biases, all compressed into searchable bytes. The question is not what we do with infinite amounts of data but how we extract meaning from what is already there. The absolute scarcity is not data, it is wisdom.
And now we are on the verge of something even more profound: agent-based models. These will not only process data but also react to it, adapt to it, and decide with it in their own programmed way. This is no longer comparable to reflection but rather to emergence. A next-generation AI agent won’t ask what it should do; it might suggest what should be done based on patterns we haven’t noticed. The human-machine dynamic shifts from tool to collaborator, follower to independent agent.
Whose values will shape these agents?
When the Internet becomes the only teacher, we risk a self-referential loop in which we teach machines our mistakes and get them back on a large scale. The future of intelligence will not consist of data but of decisions.
The key question is: whose decisions will it be?
Which aspects will play a decisive role in this?
The future of intelligence will not be measured by the volume of data we collect but by the values embedded in the decisions we allow machines to make.
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Deutsche Ausgabe: Jenseits des Algorithmus: Ein Versuch, den menschlichen Geist im Zeitalter der künstlichen Intelligenz zu würdigen (Wittgenstein Reloaded)
