Ilya Sutskever is a name that many of us are just starting to hear about. However, when we dig deeper into the matter, we understand better how key a name OpenAI is in reaching these days. So who is Sutskever, who is thought to have fired the company’s CEO?
One of the most famous companies working with artificial intelligence, which is perhaps one of the most popular fields of recent years. OpenAI, has been in chaos for a while. CEO of the company Sam Altman, He was fired from the company by the decision of the founding partners and the board of directors on Friday. Investors then tried to get OpenAI to rehire Sam Altman over the weekend, but this did not happen. In fact, OpenAI’s largest shareholder, Microsoft, announced that it had hired Sam Altman to lead a new artificial intelligence research department. As of today, it has been announced that Sam Altman has been reappointed as the CEO of OpenAI with a new board of directors.
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There is still no definitive explanation as to what was the reason behind Sam Altman’s dismissal from his position at OpenAI, but after a closer look, he was one of the co-founders of the company and thought to be the main brain in the artificial intelligence developed. Ilya Sutskever appears before us. It is known that Altman, like every CEO, fell into conflict with the board of directors and was removed from his post because he aimed to make quick profits and expand the company based on the technology developed. So who exactly is Ilya Sutskever, who is thought to be the key figure in making this decision? Let’s get to know this genius name more closely.
What was Sutskever’s reason behind approving Altman’s firing?
First of all, Altman returned to his former position, but there are some possible reasons for this process. Especially Sutskever When we look at it from the perspective; Especially the statements he made before explain the reasons for this process to some extent. Sutskever is a very important name in artificial intelligence development, but while doing so, he is also afraid of the point this new technology can reach.
Sam Altman’s plans to rapidly grow OpenAI appear to have spooked Sutskever. Because if the development of artificial intelligence occurs at uncontrollable speeds, we may not be able to control this technology. war industry For example, it has already started to use this technology. Maybe not in the near future, but we may even wake up to a Matrix-like world in the future. These fears of Sutskever led to Altman’s dismissal. However, he later shared in a Tweet that he regretted this. This will be discussed later in our content. Now let’s take a closer look at who this genius is.
Sutskever has a lifeline that we are not used to seeing very often.
Soviet Union’Sutskever, who is known to have been born between 1985 and 1986 (the exact year of birth is unknown), moved to Israel with his family when he was only 5 years old. Sutskever, who studied at university here between 2000 and 2002, later moved to Canada and started studying at the University of Toronto. Sutskever, who graduated from the department of mathematics in 2005, is doing a master’s degree in computer science and immediately completed a doctorate in the same department.
The life of Sutskever, who will play a major role in the development of artificial intelligence, especially in recent years, changed greatly during his doctorate because during this period, he started his consultancy “deep learning” Geoffrey Hinton, one of the most competent names in the field, did it.
The first projects started to arrive in 2012.
In 2012, Sutskever participated in the Imagenet competition with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton and became the first in the field of deep learning.“AlexNet”He introduced. AlexNet, one of the first successful artificial neural networks in this field, came first in the competition by outperforming its competitors and an important step was taken in deep learning. Hinton even won the Turing Award in 2018 thanks to AlexNet.
Ilya Sutskever is thought to be the real brains behind OpenAI.
Sutskever is an engineer dedicated to the field of deep learning. Sutskever started working at Google with the success he achieved with AlexNet, and after working at the Big Tech company for about 3 years, he joined OpenAI as a founding member. Yoshua Bengio, the world’s leading artificial intelligence expert, said, “I don’t think there could be a better candidate to be OpenAI’s chief scientist than Sutskever.” he said. Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI, said about Sutskever: “The cornerstone of OpenAI’s success.” he said.
Sutskever, who paved the way for the development of artificial intelligence, is also afraid of them.
Speaking about artificial intelligence in The Guardian’s documentary published in recent weeks, Sutskever said, “artificial intelligenceâ an awesome thing. It will solve all the problems we have today. Unemployment, disease and poverty will be solved.” he said, but in the continuation of these words, he also talked about the scary aspects of artificial intelligence.”But this will also create new problems. The fake news problem will be a million times worse. Cyber attacks will become more extreme. Fully automated artificial intelligenceâ We will have their weapons.” said Sutskever, ChatGPT It focuses on whether OpenAI has remained true to its mission of benefiting humanity without profit since its launch.
Sutskever; A genius who is afraid of what he creates, or a misguided name in the business world?
When we look at Ilya’s career and his statements, we see that he has achieved great things and that the things that have been achieved are We see that he is afraid of his speed and potential. Maybe that’s why he wanted Altman to be removed from the company. Because Altman; He was an actor who enabled OpenAI to grow very quickly. But this is where we need to step in. Sutskever stated in his Twitter post that he was deeply saddened by Altman’s firing. Shortly after this announcement, we saw that Sam Altman was reappointed as the CEO of OpenAI. It seems that Sutskever had a hand in this decision.
“I deeply regret participating in the board’s actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we have built together and will do everything in my power to reunite the company.”
Elon Musk also asked Sutskever a completely different question.
Elon Musk, one of the founding partners of the company, wrote under Sutskever’s post: “Why did you take such drastic action? If OpenAI is doing something potentially dangerous to humanity, the world needs to know” he made a statement.
The problem seems to be solved in OpenAI for now.
In fact, Sutskever later stated in his statement that he regretted this dismissal. This firing took place without the knowledge of even the company’s important shareholders. It could also cause great damage to the company. We expect OpenAI to be on the agenda with new events in this process. Let’s see what will happen, we will see together.
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