Ilya Sutskever: "Alchemy exists; it just goes under the name 'deep learning'"
k7agar · x · 2026-10-27
Ilya Sutskever tweeted that "Alchemy exists; it just goes under the name ‘deep learning’." The quip revives the long-running debate comparing deep learning to alchemy — it works, but nobody fully understands why — now delivered with self-deprecating humor by the OpenAI co-founder.
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