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Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder of Safe Superintelligence; formerly chief scientist at OpenAI.
b. 1986🇺🇸United StatesCo-founder, Safe Superintelligence
Hinton's student and a co-author of AlexNet, the result that restarted deep learning. Chief Scientist at OpenAI through the GPT era, then left in 2024 to found SSI.
Known for
AlexNetSequence to sequence learningGPT series
4 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 2024–now2 yrsSafe SuperintelligenceCo-founder
- 2015–20249 yrsOpenAICo-founder & Chief Scientist
- 2013–20152 yrsGoogle BrainResearch Scientist
- 2012–20131 yrDNNresearchCo-founder
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No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.
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