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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever left his company in May after a failed impeachment attempt Sam Altman.
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He announced on June 19 that he would start a new AI project called “Safe Superintellgence Inc.”
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Sutskever’s previous work sparked the “big bang of deep learning.”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had high praise for Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder of OpenAI who left his company after a chaotic attempt to oust its CEO, Sam Altman.
During a speech on June 14 at the California Institute of Technology, the Nvidia co-founder cited Sutskever and two other renowned computer scientists for their groundbreaking work on a convolutional neural network (CNN) called AlexNet, a program that can perform image recognition.
The CNN relied on Nvidia’s graphics processing units, or GPUs — the chips that turned the tech company into a multibillion-dollar business amid the AI boom — to successfully recognize more than a million high-resolution images in 2012, the investigative article said. on AlexNet. The model was designed by Alex Krizhevksy, Geoffrey E. Hinton and Sutskever.
“Geoff Hinton, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever used Nvidia CUDA GPUs to train AlexNet and shocked the computer vision community by winning the 2012 ImageNet challenge,” said Jensen, referring to the challenge, in which teams of researchers compete to see which of their two programs can recognize images most accurately. “This was the big moment, the big bang of deep learning. A pivotal moment that marked the beginning of the AI revolution.”
A 2017 article from Quartz described the 2012 competition as the “single event” that sparked the artificial intelligence boom as AlexNet defeated its competitors.
“Well, I second his comment, that’s all I can say :)” Krizhevsky said in a brief email to Business Insider.
Sutskever and Hinton did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent after hours.
Three years after AlexNet, Sutskever started OpenAI with Altman, Elon Musk and a team of researchers.
His tenure as OpenAI’s chief scientist ended in May, six months after he and the company’s board members pushed for Altman’s ouster in November.
Business Insider reported that his role in the chaotic effort to remove Altman clouded his future at OpenAI. Sutskever later said he regretted his decision to support Altman’s dismissal.
In June, a month after announcing he would leave the company he co-founded, Sutskever said he would start a new artificial intelligence venture: Super Safeintelligence Inc., a research laboratory.
The laboratory stated in a press release that Super Safeintelligence Inc. “has one purpose and one product: a safe superintelligence.”
A spokesperson for Super Safeintelligence did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent after hours.
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