Ilya Sutskever
Canadian-Israeli AI researcher · Israel · On the map · Academics · Born 1986 · age 39
Ilya Sutskever is a Soviet-born Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning. He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning, including sequence-to-sequence learning, reasoning models, GPT models, and contributions to CLIP, DALL-E, and AlphaGo.
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, There was a period of time when we were starting OpenAI when I wasn’t exactly sure how the progress would continue.
I’ve always been inspired and motivated by the idea. It wasn’t called AGI back then, but you know, like, having a neural network do everything.
... the safeguards he wants to design: a machine that looks upon people the way parents look on their children. “In my opinion, this is the gold standard,” he says.
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With Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, he co-created AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. One of the most highly cited computer scientists in history, he has won the NeurIPS Test of Time Award for his lasting impact on AI research three times in a row (2022-2024) and received the National Academy of Sciences Award for the Industrial Application of Science in 2026.
