Ilya Sutskever | |
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איליה סוצקבר Илья Суцкевер | |
Born | Илья Ефимович Суцкевер Ilya Efimovich Sutskever 8 December 1986 [4] |
Citizenship | Canadian, Israeli |
Alma mater | |
Known for |
AlexNet Co-founding OpenAI |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Machine learning Neural networks Artificial intelligence Deep learning [1] |
Institutions |
University of Toronto Stanford University Google Brain OpenAI |
Thesis | Training Recurrent Neural Networks (2013) |
Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Hinton [2] [3] |
Website |
www |
Ilya Sutskever FRS ( /ˈɪljə ˈsuːtskɪvər/; Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; Russian: Илья́ Суцке́вер [ɪˈlʲja sʊtsˈkʲevʲɪr] born 1985/86) [4] is a Russian-born computer scientist working in machine learning. [1] Sutskever is a co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI. [7] He holds citizenship in Russia, Israel, and Canada.
He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. [8] [9] [10] 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. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. [11] Sutskever is also one of the many co-authors of the AlphaGo paper. [12]
Sutskever was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, then called Gorky, at the time part of the Soviet Union, and at age 5 immigrated with his family to Israel, [13] where he lived until age 15. [14]
Sutskever attended the Open University of Israel between 2000 and 2002. [15] After that, he moved to Canada with his family and attended the University of Toronto in Ontario.
From the University of Toronto, Sutskever received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics in 2005, [15] [16] [6] [17] a Master of Science in computer science in 2007, [16] [18] and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 2013. [3] [19] [20] His doctoral supervisor was Geoffrey Hinton. [2]
In 2012, Sutskever built AlexNet in collaboration with Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky. To support the computing demands of AlexNet, Sutskever bought many GTX 580 GPUs online. [21]
From November to December 2012, Sutskever spent about two months as a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University. He then returned to the University of Toronto and joined Hinton's new research company DNNResearch, a spinoff of Hinton's research group. Four months later, in March 2013, Google acquired DNNResearch and hired Sutskever as a research scientist at Google Brain. [22]
At Google Brain, Sutskever worked with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Viet Le to create the sequence-to-sequence learning algorithm, [23] and worked on TensorFlow. [24]
At the end of 2015, he left Google to become cofounder and chief scientist of the newly founded organization OpenAI. [25] [26] [27]
In 2023, he announced that he will co-lead OpenAI's new "Superalignment" project, which tries to solve the alignment of superintelligences in 4 years. He wrote that even if superintelligence seems far off, it could happen this decade. [28]
Sutskever was formerly one of the six board members of the non-profit entity which controls OpenAI. [29] The Information speculated that the firing of Sam Altman in part resulted from a conflict over the extent to which the company should commit to AI safety. [30] In a company all-hands meeting shortly after the board meeting, Sutskever stated that firing Altman was "the board doing its duty", [31] though in the following week, he expressed regret at having participated in Altman's ousting. [32] The firing of Altman and resignation of Brockman led to resignation of three senior researchers from OpenAI. [33] Following these events, Sutskever stepped down from the board of OpenAI. [34]
OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, composed of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.
Ilya Sutskever | |
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איליה סוצקבר Илья Суцкевер | |
Born | Илья Ефимович Суцкевер Ilya Efimovich Sutskever 8 December 1986 [4] |
Citizenship | Canadian, Israeli |
Alma mater | |
Known for |
AlexNet Co-founding OpenAI |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Machine learning Neural networks Artificial intelligence Deep learning [1] |
Institutions |
University of Toronto Stanford University Google Brain OpenAI |
Thesis | Training Recurrent Neural Networks (2013) |
Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Hinton [2] [3] |
Website |
www |
Ilya Sutskever FRS ( /ˈɪljə ˈsuːtskɪvər/; Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; Russian: Илья́ Суцке́вер [ɪˈlʲja sʊtsˈkʲevʲɪr] born 1985/86) [4] is a Russian-born computer scientist working in machine learning. [1] Sutskever is a co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI. [7] He holds citizenship in Russia, Israel, and Canada.
He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. [8] [9] [10] 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. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. [11] Sutskever is also one of the many co-authors of the AlphaGo paper. [12]
Sutskever was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, then called Gorky, at the time part of the Soviet Union, and at age 5 immigrated with his family to Israel, [13] where he lived until age 15. [14]
Sutskever attended the Open University of Israel between 2000 and 2002. [15] After that, he moved to Canada with his family and attended the University of Toronto in Ontario.
From the University of Toronto, Sutskever received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics in 2005, [15] [16] [6] [17] a Master of Science in computer science in 2007, [16] [18] and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 2013. [3] [19] [20] His doctoral supervisor was Geoffrey Hinton. [2]
In 2012, Sutskever built AlexNet in collaboration with Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky. To support the computing demands of AlexNet, Sutskever bought many GTX 580 GPUs online. [21]
From November to December 2012, Sutskever spent about two months as a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University. He then returned to the University of Toronto and joined Hinton's new research company DNNResearch, a spinoff of Hinton's research group. Four months later, in March 2013, Google acquired DNNResearch and hired Sutskever as a research scientist at Google Brain. [22]
At Google Brain, Sutskever worked with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Viet Le to create the sequence-to-sequence learning algorithm, [23] and worked on TensorFlow. [24]
At the end of 2015, he left Google to become cofounder and chief scientist of the newly founded organization OpenAI. [25] [26] [27]
In 2023, he announced that he will co-lead OpenAI's new "Superalignment" project, which tries to solve the alignment of superintelligences in 4 years. He wrote that even if superintelligence seems far off, it could happen this decade. [28]
Sutskever was formerly one of the six board members of the non-profit entity which controls OpenAI. [29] The Information speculated that the firing of Sam Altman in part resulted from a conflict over the extent to which the company should commit to AI safety. [30] In a company all-hands meeting shortly after the board meeting, Sutskever stated that firing Altman was "the board doing its duty", [31] though in the following week, he expressed regret at having participated in Altman's ousting. [32] The firing of Altman and resignation of Brockman led to resignation of three senior researchers from OpenAI. [33] Following these events, Sutskever stepped down from the board of OpenAI. [34]
OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, composed of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.