Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever | |
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איליה סוצקבר | |
Sutskever at Tel Aviv University in 2023 | |
| Born | Ilya Efimovich Sutskever 8 December 1986 Gorky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
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| Education | Open University of Israel University of Toronto (BSc, MSc, PhD) |
| Known for | AlexNet Co-founding OpenAI Founding SSI Inc. |
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| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Toronto Google Brain OpenAI |
| Thesis | Training recurrent neural networks (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Hinton |
| Website | www |
Ilya Sutskever FRS (Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; born 8 December 1986) is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning. He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. With Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, he co-invented AlexNet, a convolutional neural network.
Sutskever co-founded and was a former chief scientist at OpenAI. In 2023, he was one of the members of OpenAI's board that ousted Sam Altman from his position as the organization's CEO; Altman was reinstated a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. In June 2024, Sutskever co-founded the company Safe Superintelligence alongside Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy.