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Ilya Sutskever
Also known as: Ilya
Co-founder of OpenAI and SSI; co-inventor of the sequence-to-sequence model and AlexNet; key figure in the deep learning revolution
Expert Positions3 topics
| Topic | View | Estimate | Confidence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGI Timelines | Medium | 5-20 years to superintelligence | medium | Nov 2025 |
| Current Approaches Scale | Insufficient — new paradigm needed | Scaling alone won't reach AGI | high | Nov 2025 |
| How Hard Is Alignment? | Hard but solvable | Alignment as a generalization problem | medium | Nov 2025 |
Career History4
Research Scientist
Google Brain
Nov 2012 – Dec 2015
PhD Student & Researcher
University of Toronto / DNNresearch
2009 – 2012
Education
PhD in Machine Learning, University of Toronto (advisor: Geoffrey Hinton)
Publications & Resources3
Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners (GPT-2)
→2019PaperAI Capabilities
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
→2014PaperML Foundations
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (AlexNet)
→2012PaperML Foundations
Links
Organization Roles2
Facts8
People
Employed BySafe Superintelligence Inc
Role / TitleCo-founder & Chief Scientist
Biographical
Birth Year1,985
EducationPhD in Machine Learning, University of Toronto (advisor: Geoffrey Hinton)
Notable ForCo-founder of OpenAI and SSI; co-inventor of the sequence-to-sequence model and AlexNet; key figure in the deep learning revolution
Social Media@iabornamore
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x04W_mMAAAAJ