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Ilya Sutskever

Early Life and Education

Ilya Sutskever was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, then called Gorky, and emigrated with his family to Israel when he was five years old. At age 15, he moved to Canada with his family and attended the University of Toronto in Ontario. He received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Toronto in 2005, a Master of Science in computer science in 2007, and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 2013. His doctoral supervisor was Geoffrey Hinton.

Career

Early Career

Sutskever built AlexNet in collaboration with Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky in 2012. He then spent two months as a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University before returning to the University of Toronto to join Hinton's new research company DNNResearch, a spinoff of Hinton's research group. In 2013, Google acquired DNNResearch and hired Sutskever as a research scientist at Google Brain.

Google Brain

At Google Brain, Sutskever worked with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Viet Le to create the sequence-to-sequence learning algorithm and worked on TensorFlow. He is also one of the AlphaGo paper's many co-authors.

OpenAI

At the end of 2015, Sutskever left Google to become a co-founder and chief scientist of the newly founded organization OpenAI. He is considered to have played a key role in the development of ChatGPT. In 2023, he announced that he would co-lead OpenAI's new "Superalignment" project, which aims to solve the alignment of superintelligences within four years. In May 2024, Sutskever announced his departure from OpenAI.

Safe Superintelligence Inc.

In June 2024, Sutskever co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc., a new company with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. The company's focus is on creating safe superintelligence, with Sutskever stating that their "first product will be the safe superintelligence, and it will not do anything else up until then".

Awards and Recognition

In 2015, Sutskever was named in MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35. In 2018, he was the keynote speaker at Nvidia Ntech 2018 and AI Frontiers Conference 2018. In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).

Ilya Sutskever

Early Life and Education

Ilya Sutskever is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and AI researcher working in machine learning. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (then called Gorky) and emigrated with his family to Israel at age 5, where he lived until he was 15. He attended the Open University of Israel between 2000 and 2002 before moving to Canada with his family and enrolling at the University of Toronto in Ontario.

At the University of Toronto, Sutskever obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 2005, a Master of Science in Computer Science in 2007, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science in 2013. His PhD supervisor was Geoffrey Hinton, with whom he collaborated on several projects.

Career

Early Career

In 2012, Sutskever built AlexNet, a convolutional neural network, in collaboration with Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky. The same year, he spent two months as a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University.

DNNResearch

In 2012, Sutskever returned to the University of Toronto and joined Geoffrey Hinton's new research company DNNResearch, a spinoff of Hinton's research group. In March 2013, Google acquired DNNResearch and hired Sutskever as a research scientist at Google Brain.

Google Brain

At Google Brain, Sutskever worked with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Viet Le (also known as Quoc Le) to create the sequence-to-sequence learning algorithm and worked on TensorFlow. He was also one of the co-authors of the AlphaGo paper.

OpenAI

At the end of 2015, Sutskever left Google to become a co-founder and chief scientist of the newly founded organisation OpenAI. He played a key role in the development of ChatGPT and, in 2023, announced that he would co-lead OpenAI's "Superalignment" project, which aims to solve the alignment of superintelligences within four years.

In 2023, Sutskever was one of the members of the OpenAI board who fired CEO Sam Altman. Altman returned a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. In May 2024, he announced his departure from OpenAI, and the following month, he co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc., a new company focused solely on developing safe superintelligence.

Awards and Recognition

Youtube Videos

Youtube Title: Ilya Sutskever | AI will be omnipotent in the future | Everything is impossible becomes possible

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Youtube Channel Name: Me&ChatGPT

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Ilya Sutskever | AI will be omnipotent in the future | Everything is impossible becomes possible

Youtube Title: The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED

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The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED

Youtube Title: Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #94

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Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #94

Youtube Title: Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world

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Youtube Channel Name: The Guardian

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Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world

Youtube Title: Ilya Sutskever Breaks Silence: The Mission Behind SSI - Safe Superintelligence Explained

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Ilya Sutskever Breaks Silence: The Mission Behind SSI - Safe Superintelligence Explained

Youtube Title: Ilya Sutskever |AI will have a human brain that can think for itself |AI security be taken seriously

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Youtube Channel Name: Me&ChatGPT

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Ilya Sutskever |AI will have a human brain that can think for itself |AI security be taken seriously

Youtube Title: Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Spies, Microsoft, & Enlightenment

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Youtube Channel Name: Dwarkesh Patel

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Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Spies, Microsoft, & Enlightenment

Youtube Title: Geoffrey Hinton | On working with Ilya, choosing problems, and the power of intuition

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Geoffrey Hinton | On working with Ilya, choosing problems, and the power of intuition

Youtube Title: Season 1 Ep. 22 OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever: The man who made AI work

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Youtube Channel Name: The Robot Brains Podcast

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Season 1 Ep. 22 OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever: The man who made AI work

Youtube Title: Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI Meta-Learning and Self-Play | MIT Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

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Youtube Channel Name: Lex Fridman

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Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI Meta-Learning and Self-Play | MIT Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Youtube Title: Ilya Sutskever|AGI can create huge value |AGI can help humans explore a wider universe in the future

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Youtube Channel Name: Me&ChatGPT

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Ilya Sutskever|AGI can create huge value |AGI can help humans explore a wider universe in the future

Youtube Title: Ilya Sutskever | Natural language realizes the whole process of conscious AI | this is a milestone

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Youtube Channel Name: Me&ChatGPT

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Ilya Sutskever | Natural language realizes the whole process of conscious AI | this is a milestone

Youtube Title: OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever to Leave the Company

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OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever to Leave the Company

Youtube Title: Ex-OpenAI genius launches new “Super Intelligence” company

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Youtube Channel Name: Fireship

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Ex-OpenAI genius launches new “Super Intelligence” company

Youtube Title: What AI is Making Possible | Ilya Sutskever and Sven Strohband

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Youtube Channel Name: Khosla Ventures

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What AI is Making Possible | Ilya Sutskever and Sven Strohband

Youtube Title: The Mastermind Behind GPT-4 and the Future of AI | Ilya Sutskever

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The Mastermind Behind GPT-4 and the Future of AI | Ilya Sutskever

Youtube Title: NVIDIA NTECH 2018 - Ilya Sutskever Keynote Talk

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NVIDIA NTECH 2018 - Ilya Sutskever Keynote Talk

Youtube Title: How to Build AGI? (Ilya Sutskever) | AI Podcast Clips

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Youtube Channel Name: Lex Fridman

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How to Build AGI? (Ilya Sutskever) | AI Podcast Clips

Youtube Title: Highlights of the Fireside Chat with Ilya Sutskever & Jensen Huang: AI Today & Vision of the Future

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Youtube Channel Name: Xiao Yang

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Highlights of the Fireside Chat with Ilya Sutskever & Jensen Huang: AI Today & Vision of the Future

Youtube Title: BREAKING: Ilya Sutskever STUNNING new mission! "Superintelligence is within reach!"

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Youtube Channel Name: Wes Roth

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BREAKING: Ilya Sutskever STUNNING new mission! "Superintelligence is within reach!"