Ilya Sutskever’s guess for AI: an internal value function that enables lifelong learning
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-07-29
He sketches a loop of experience → internal judgment → self-correction → lifelong learning → transfer → repeat.
The underlying guess is that humans don’t wait until a 10,000-step task ends to know they failed; emotions and intuition provide ongoing feedback. He speculates that the corresponding AI ingredient may be some kind of internal value function.
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