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OpenAI’s Chief AI Wizard, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company

One day after OpenAI showed off an all-new, emotional, version of ChatGPT, the company announced that chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company. He voted to fire CEO Sam Altman in November.

The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial” under its current leadership team, he wrote. With Hinton and fellow grad student Alex Krizhevsky he co-created an image recognition system called AlexNet that stunned the world of AI with its accuracy and helped set off a flurry of investment in the then unfashionable technique of artificial neural networks. In 2015 Altman invited him to dinner with Elon Musk and Greg Brockman to talk about the idea of starting a new AI lab to challenge corporate dominance of the technology.

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