Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI) - Inside OpenAI

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Ilya Sutskever is the co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, which aims to build artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity. He leads research at OpenAI and is one of the architects behind the GPT models. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Sutskever explains his approach to making complex decisions at OpenAI and for AI companies in general, and makes predictions about the future of deep learning.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:05.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
0:09.0	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:13.0	Welcome YouTube and Stanford communities to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar.
0:19.0	Brought to you by STVP, the Entrepreneurship Center in the School of Engineering at Stanford, and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
0:28.6	Today, we are so honored to have Ilya Sutskiver here at ETL.
0:33.6	Ilya is the co-founder and chief scientist of Open AI, which aims to build artificial
0:40.6	general intelligence for the benefit of all humanity. Elon Musk and others have cited that
0:47.4	Ilya is the foundational mind behind the large language model generative pre-trained Transformer
0:52.9	3 or GPT3 and its public-facing product,
0:57.0	chat GBT. A few product releases have created as much excitement, intrigue, and fear as the
1:04.0	release of chat GBT in November of 2022. Ilya was, Ilya is another example of how the U.S. and the world has been the beneficiary
1:14.6	of amazing talent from Israel and Russia. Ilya was born in Russia. And then when he was five,
1:20.5	he moved to Israel where he grew up. And he spent the first half of undergrad even in Israel.
1:26.9	And then he transferred and went to the University
1:29.0	of Toronto to complete his bachelor's degree in mathematics. He went on to get a master's in
1:34.0	in Ph.D. and computer science from the University of Toronto, and then came over here to the farm
1:38.9	and did a short stint with Andrew Ng before returning back to Toronto to work under his advisor Jeffrey Hintz research
1:46.4	company, DNN Research.
1:48.9	Google then acquired DNA research shortly thereafter in 2013, and Ilya became a research
1:54.9	scientist as part of Google Brain.
1:57.8	And in 2015, he left Google to become a director of the then newly formed Open
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