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Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever is a computer scientist who is cofounder and chief scientist of the artificial general intelligence research and development company OpenAI.

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cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/
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Email Address
ilya@cs.utoronto.ca
ilya@openai.com
Founder of
OpenAI
OpenAI
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Birthdate
1986
Birthplace
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod
Location
San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
Educated at
Open University of Israel
Open University of Israel
Stanford University
Stanford University
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University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Occupation
Computer scientist
Computer scientist
Scientist
Scientist
Mathematician
Mathematician
Invested in
Rosebud AI
Rosebud AI

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Canada
Canada
Doctoral Advisor
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
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Doctoral Thesis Title
Training recurrent neural networks
Doctoral Thesis URL
cs.utoronto.ca/~ilya/p...is.pdf
Google Scholar ID
x04W_mMAAAAJ
Wikidata ID
Q21712134
Overview

Ilya Sutskever is a computer scientist who is cofounder and chief scientist of the artificial general intelligence research and development company OpenAI. Born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Sutskever was raised in Jerusalem before moving to Canada with his family at age sixteen. Based on his studies at the Open University of Israel, Sutskever was admitted into a math program at the University of Toronto while in grade 11. He went on to complete three degrees—BSc (2005), MSc (2007), and PhD (2012). Sutskever sought out Geoffrey Hinton early in his time at the University of Toronto, becoming a part of his machine learning group.

After completing his thesis under Hinton, Sutskever took a postdoc in Andrew Ng's research group at Stanford University. Sutskever returned to Toronto, cofounding the startup DNNResearch with Hinton and another of his students, Alex Krizhevsky. In March 2013, Google acquired DNNResearch, with Krizhevsky and Sutskever moving to Google and Hinton splitting his time between university research and Google. Sutskever became a research scientist within the Google brain team. While at Google, Sutskever implemented a neural-network-driven approach to language translation that produced fewer errors than competing efforts. His work provided the basis for a major upgrade to Google Translate.

In 2015, Sutskever was invited to a dinner in Palo Alto with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Greg Brockman. This led to a new initiative described by Sustkever as:

a large-scale project where many researchers and engineers come together.

Two days after the dinner, Sutskever emailed Altman, stating his desire to be involved. On December 11, 2015, OpenAI was formed as a nonprofit research laboratory with Sutskever as cofounder and research director. Sutskever would go on to become chief scientist and a member of the OpenAI Nonprofit board during the restructuring that saw the creation of the for-profit company, OpenAI LP, in 2019. In July 2023, it was announced that Sutskever would co-lead (alongside Jan Leike) a new superalignment team within OpenAI to work on the scientific and technical breakthroughs needed to control future, smarter than human, AI systems.

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