Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever is a Canadian-Israeli-Russian computer scientist who co-founded and was previously the Chief Scientist at OpenAI, a research organization focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity. Known for his expertise in deep learning, Sutskever co-invented AlexNet with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, a convolutional neural network that significantly impacted computer vision after winning the 2012 ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. He also contributed to sequence-to-sequence learning, which has been pivotal for tasks like machine translation and speech recognition. Sutskever has been recognized with several awards, including being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021.

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Sutskever was one of the six board members of the non-profit entity overseeing OpenAI until his departure. In November 2023, he was part of the board's decision to dismiss Sam Altman as CEO, reportedly due to concerns over Altman's candor in communications with the board and differing views on the company's commitment to AI safety. Following this event, Sutskever publicly expressed regret for his involvement in Altman's ouster. Altman was reinstated within a week, and Sutskever then stepped down from the board.

In May 2024, Sutskever announced his departure from OpenAI to pursue a project that he described as personally meaningful, later revealed to be a new company named Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), co-founded with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy. SSI, which has offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, aims to develop superintelligent AI safely, focusing solely on this goal without the distractions of commercial products. By September 2024, SSI had raised $1 billion in funding from venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, and SV Angel, reflecting significant investor interest in Sutskever's vision for AI safety.

Sutskever's recent activities reflect his ongoing dedication to advancing AI in a manner that prioritizes safety and ethical considerations, contrasting with the more commercially driven approach sometimes seen in the broader tech industry.

 

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Here is something cool that happened … this image was actually featured in a video about Ilya Sutskever. Goes to show how careful we will have to be in future about what we see.

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We tasked Midjourney to generate some more “photos” of Ilya with varying emotions, facial hair, and head hair. AI is not quite there yet, but it is getting quite good at this.

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