Ilya Sutskever

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Ilya Sutskever is a Canadian computer scientist who co-founded and serves as Chief Scientist of OpenAI, a research organization that aims to create artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity. He is one of the leading experts in deep learning, a branch of machine learning that uses neural networks to learn from data. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network that won the 2012 ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge and revolutionized computer vision. He also developed sequence-to-sequence learning, a technique that enables neural networks to perform tasks such as machine translation and speech recognition. He has received several awards and honors for his work, including being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021.

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Sutskever serves as one of the six board members of the non-profit entity overseeing OpenAI. According to speculations by The Information, the dismissal of Sam Altman as CEO may have been partly due to disagreements regarding the company's commitment to AI safety. Following the board meeting, Sutskever mentioned in a company all-hands meeting that the decision to remove Altman was a reflection of the board fulfilling its responsibilities. However, in the week that followed, Sutskever conveyed his remorse for having played a role in Altman's removal.

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• Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever

• Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/people/ilya-sutskever-35834/