OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever to Leave the Company

OpenAI Chief Scientist and co-founder Ilya Sutskever will depart the artificial intelligence company, ending months of speculation about the future of a top AI researcher who played a key role in the brief ouster of Sam Altman last year. Tom Mackenzie reports on Bloomberg Television.
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[@muurlegacy4465]

Scary. He’s the moral compass behind the company.

[@smallpeople172]

Not really

[@rude_people_die_young]

Was. But silent for months.

[@bgill7475]

@@smallpeople172 yes really. Sam Altman has said before that Ilya is the one who takes safety most seriously and he’s the one he’s talked to most about it.

[@rosszhu1660]

@@smallpeople172 At this moment we don't know, but after a decade when we look behind it would be very clear.

[@imtuberick2183]

The most important story in the history of humanity and only some of us actually care at all, human stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

[@Juinea_pig99]

He’s been pushed out by Sam

[@djasniverajaona9163]

i don't think so. Such a brain is always needed

[@FJKMIsotryFitiavanaSiteWeb]

Rather the discomfort to work with people you tried to bring down and all the other employees behind their back. So almost alone vs everyone. Leaving is normal path ...

[@jediTempleGuard]

Ilya was the man behind all this. Not the only one, but definitely the most important one. I hope he'll find peace and continue to contribute to the industry.

[@user-gg8we2ot4b]

All the best for your future endeavors Ilya, Thank you!

[@rcingfever3882]

i really love illya i can't imagine open ai witout him

[@jsivonenVR]

I can. It’ll be full throttle towards dystopia. Sign up for your AI waifu today! 💦

[@mycollegeshirt]

I think it's pretty easy to tell tbh. He was going to leave after the whole ousting and reinstatement of Sam. If he had left at the time, it would have really damaged the company. So they'd agree he'd announce he's leaving in six months. Being that it's exactly six months time speaks to the fraught relationship and emotions that were being held, the ego's were growing too big to be held in one company.

[@senju2024]

So many unanswered questions. 1. What did Ilya see that spook him? 2. What is Star Q? 3. What is the REAL reason why he fired sam? 4. What has he been doing for the last six months? 5. Where is he going now? 6. He is a walking gold mine. Will elon musk, microsoft, deepmind grab him? If I was him, I would write a book and sell millions of copies of his life so far.

[@dr_flunks]

more like a gold asteroid.

[@raul36]

1.He saw absolutely nothing. He is a scientist, not a conspiracy theorist. 2. The Q* project is the A* algorithm plus optimization paths and greedy algorithms, along with energy-based models. 3. Conflict of interest, there is no more. By the time he tried to throw Altman, he had no business there. OpenAI employees are only interested in money and power. 4. Think about your next moves. 5. You will probably retire or start a company. 6. He is not a walking gold mine. There are thousands of scientists better than him. MUCH BETTER THAN HIM. He is being given too much credit just because he was a Hinton student.

[@Berkeli]

Maybe he wants to go do his own thing, where he has more control. He will have no issues finding backers

[@moviesfan5513]

@@raul36 How do you know there are thousands of scientists better than him ? Do you have a PhD in AI from a top university. If you don't have I seriously doubt you have capacity to judge if there are 1000 better than him.

[@raul36]

@@moviesfan5513 Because this is not about who is smarter in artificial intelligence, but, above all, in computing and engineering. Ilya was brilliant, but he was at the right time, at the right time and it is a reality that many find difficult to accept. He was not the inventor of ANYTHING like Hinton or Lecun were. He is a scientist who is terribly overrated. And the facts I refer. Hinton highlighted his skills with algorithms and data structures, which is what made him progress so quickly, because he had been programming since he was 14. Why do I know that there are more than 1,000 scientists and engineers capable of it? 1.He was not the only one to create and design chatgpt. 2.He did not create alphago. 3.Did not create tensorflow 4.He did not design the attention algorithms that Google made public in 2017. 5. He did not create mamba, nor the continuous neural architectures that emerge. 6. He did not create or design 99.999% of machine learning or computer vision. This is already more than a thousand people working on problems much more complicated than chatgpt. If you don't know what you're talking about, just don't say anything. I understand your love and passion for that guy, but there are people out there smarter than him. And I know this because I constantly surround myself with them. I appreciate and value them, but I don't put them on a pedestal like most do. Simply because you are not capable of understanding that immeasurable amalgamation of neurons.

[@gooodreason]

Welcome to Resistance, Ilya! ✊

[@spysr]

Ilya should get the Turing Award

[@nobu1730]

i love illya, he's the reason why i'm in the ai research world. a true genius and an incredible mind, hope him the best!

[@chillip9074]

This dude needs to start shaving his head

[@sfmediaapps]

You'd think with all the private shares of OpenAI this guy has worth Millions possibly Billions he could get some decent hair plugs.

[@UnknownDino]

@@sfmediaapps you don't need hair plugs when you have billions in shares.

[@donnieamz2938]

​@@sfmediaapps hair transplant is a tedious process. nobody should do it just for the sake of cosmetics. they should have been banned just like plastic surgeries like silicone boobs lol

[@joekavalauskas8767]

@@donnieamz2938 check out the Tosh Show hair plug guy, just aired 2 weeks ago

[@leomajor88]

@@donnieamz2938 then don’t get it for yourself and be done with it lol. But you don’t get to make that decision for others 🙃

[@mindful_minipods]

Was deeply respected.

[@sleepingbee101]

It's about time

[@TheLandAndSky]

Let’s not make a big deal of this

[@carloscampo9119]

That's what Sam would say

[@vctris]

Very short sighted, hopefully you’re right though and in 10 years we don’t look back at it as a big deal.

[@eklim2034]

He will start Truely Open & Safe AI

[@kimster9998]

crazy

[@riverland0072]

What if he goes to Microsoft? I wonder what his relationship with Satya looks like now after that saga

[@PhoChampion88]

He should work with Google. Best platform and backing for his projects and legacy.

[@riverland0072]

@@PhoChampion88 google? Google is no longer a serious place

[@jacqdanieles]

Possibly going to work with Musk

[@riverland0072]

@@jacqdanieles musk? Hmmm no. Andrew will advise him against it.

[@riverland0072]

@@PhoChampion88 go back to Google? Don’t see him doing that

[@TheDozman]

He says its safe or he won't get his exit package. Standard procedure

[@Letsflipingooo98]

no stopping skynet now .. welp AI, I love you.

[@valboolin3538]

Goodluck

[@radoslavdodnikov6743]

His a great person and a great mind. I hope he will find another place where his genius will be appreciated.

[@brootalbap]

Now Ilya will either go to Google, Microsoft or work under Musk ? Any other options? Robotic AI maybe?

[@OmarSerajKazi]

He's been against AI progress for a while now. Plus, I get the feeling he wanted Sam's job.

[@mindful_minipods]

When it comes to these guys. I doubt its about the money.

[@synclavier5405]

Sam is the one creating ClosedAI with Microsoft. Maybe that's why there is tension. Sam is reneging on the agreements set up for OpenAI, which is why Musk (as an investor of OpenAI) is suing him. Sam sounds like the threat here

[@just_another_nerd]

🤔Will Ilya finally start talking?... What is Q*?

[@iro4201]

NDA don't convey much to you?

[@just_another_nerd]

@@iro4201 depending on how important the answer is to "what did Ilya see?", NDA may not be enough to keep ppl's mouths shut... After all some ppl may still have conscience and a genuine desire to do the right thing regardless of the consequences

[@iro4201]

@@just_another_nerd Conscience is hard to come by when you're threatened with billions of dollars for each instance of "damage" or liability to the company. Speaking from experience

[@just_another_nerd]

@@iro4201 Depends on how he makes choices: like a cynic, just weighing gain&loss, or like someone with principles, moral values, true convictions, and then it's "do what you must and come what may". Rarely the truth of someone character is tested so publicly and so obviously... I don't envy him

[@iro4201]

@@just_another_nerd So your moral values and conviction is that "humanity" and "society" is worth above family? I now keep it simple and assume no absolutes.

[@BodhiTreeCIO]

Great so we are officially screwed.

[@nholmes86]

I think he's work here is done!

[@eat_ze_bugs]

Elon Musk and the OpenAI board doesn't like Sam Altman, it's safe to say there's something sinister about his plans about AGI.

[@lameiraangelo]

Hopefully he goes to Apple.

[@User-actSpacing]

He will move to Apple

[@Sunnykhatnani]

The main brain behind openai

[@mochutasull739]

Bloomberg admits Elon was one of the early investors that recruited Illa. If it wasn't for Elon insight and problem solving talent, AI would not have happened. Hope Illa reunite with Elon.

[@0mnicris]

Bro saw something for sure. Or at least had a moral compass recheck.

[@Dragonblood94]

What did he saw?

[@MorbiusBlueBalls]

baseless fear mongering

[@0mnicris]

@@MorbiusBlueBalls how? In addition to Ilya leaving, another person from their team has left as well

[@user-rk9kb2sd9b]

He will go to Microsoft, who in return will dump OpenAI and let them vent on their own.

[@henrikploug]

Elon will hire him - again.

[@abhishekborkar9004]

what are you doing on the terminal btw, or its just for flexing 🤔

[@AlbyTheMovieCreator]

They show their bloomberg paid subscription platform

[@abhishekborkar9004]

@@AlbyTheMovieCreator lol

[@underscore2002]

AI replaced him

[@sp123]

bruh got enough money from this grift and decided to take his golden parachute before it falls down.

[@manvsmachine1]

If I had that hair, I would leave too

[@pigeon-fd5zq]

He is getting more salary from Google or Apple

[@QueenetBowie]

Ilya was the brains while Sam is the charisma. That’s a pretty big loss for OpenAI.

[@howmathematicianscreatemat9226]

One out of 1000 people have an IQ above 140. Those are hundreds of thousands of Americans. They can easily find a new one with such an IQ

[@RoqueMatusIII]

In my uninformed opinion he started to see something he doesn't like, maybe a threat to his own job lol

[@haroldpierre1726]

Sutskever is renowned as a scientist, but he became a liability with his crazy talk and coup attempt. He reminds me of how Thomas Edison thought that AC power was dangerous and campaigned against it, despite the technology's potential benefits. If they can keep his mouth shut, Google really needs some direction and he might be a good fit.

[@Landgraf43]

What exactly did he say that was crazy talk?

[@haroldpierre1726]

@@Landgraf43 Watch his presentation with Sam Altman in Tel Aviv. You can tell every time he went off the deep end how uncomfortable Sam was and how he had to spin them out of the statements Ilya stated. There is a point where Ilya truly frightened the audience and there was complete silence. I remembered watching this and saying, "WTF." "If this thing is so potentially dangerous, why are you working on it."

[@Landgraf43]

@@haroldpierre1726 I did watch the presentation a few months ago. Nothing he said there was crazy talk. In fact he is absolutely correct. There is a decent chance AI could get out of control and lead to human extinction. Thats a position held by most leading AI researchers and by no means a controversial take among them. And to your question why they are working on it if its so dangerous. What do you think is the alternative? Letting someone else who might have worse intentions develope it? The technology is too valuable there is no way to stop the developement, if they don't do it someone else will. I hope this answers your question.

[@haroldpierre1726]

@@Landgraf43 This argument really depends on your beliefs. If you think AI could get out of control and lead to human extinction, you'll find Ilya's position reasonable. But if you see neural networks as just statistical math equations predicting the next word based on billions of examples, you'll think Ilya is fear mongering. Both views are held by top AI researchers. For example, Yann LeCun has a much more reserved view of AI and doesn't think it's the threat that some people make it out to be. Although AI is crucial to the functioning of my business, I take a skeptical view of the doomers and the AI hypers. Humans are terrible at making predictions. I focus on what can AI do for me now and what are the current proof of concepts.

[@Landgraf43]

@@haroldpierre1726 I do see neural networks as statistical math equations and so do people like geoffrey hinton or ilya that who literally created the technology. They understand the technology way better than you and me and still worry about existential risks. So tell me how exactly does that disprove anything? Also people aren't scared of something like chatgpt but true AGI. Can you give an actual argument why it is fear mongering? Why can't statistical math equations lead to superhuman intelligence? Also lecuns takes have aged like milk multiple times and I watched a debate between him, hinton and bengio where he brought absolutely terrible arguments so I wouldn't really base my opinion on only his reasoning.

[@AlgoNudger]

This guy's highly overrated. 🤭

[@kimster9998]

is he going to deepmind?

[@vimalcurio]

Nope, xai

[@takyon7814]

@@vimalcurio cap

[@dr_flunks]

he's the smartest guy in AI, maybe the smartest in the world. the math he'd have to understand to have built gpt would have been mind boggling.

[@MorbiusBlueBalls]

🧢

[@user-wo3iw7zv1t]

Hello everyone ? Thank you very much. ~