Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever started the deep learning revolution

Co-founder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, quit during a rough patch with the company’s CEO. Nvidia’s CEO praises Sutskever for making AI breakthroughs with AlexNet.

Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI who left his company after a chaotic attempt to fire its CEO, Sam Altman, got high marks from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

A co-founder of Nvidia praised Sutskever and two other well-known computer scientists in a commencement speech at the California Institute of Technology on June 14.

He discussed their groundbreaking work on a convolutional neural network (CNN) called AlexNet, a program that can recognize images.

CNN used Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs), the chips that made the tech company a multi-trillion dollar giant during the AI boom, to correctly identify more than a million high-resolution images in 2012.

This is according to the research paper on AlexNet. Alex Krizhevksy, Geoffrey E. Hinton, and Sutskever came up with the model.

Jensen said, “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.”

The challenge is when researchers compete to see which programs can recognize images the best.” This was the big event, the beginning of deep learning.” This significant event initiated the AI revolution.

Quartz wrote in 2017 that the competition in 2012, in which AlexNet beat all of its competitors, was the “single event” that started the AI boom.

Along with Altman, Elon Musk, and several researchers, Sutskever founded OpenAI in the third year following the launch of AlexNet.

Former OpenAI chief scientist launches super safeintelligence lnc

He was OpenAI’s chief scientist until May, six months after he and other board members tried to eliminate Altman in November.

According to Business Insider, his involvement in the chaotic attempt to get rid of Altman made it difficult for him to get a job at OpenAI in the future. Later, Sutskever said he felt awful about supporting Altman’s firing.

A month after saying he was leaving the company he co-founded, Sutskever announced in June that he was starting a new artificial intelligence business: a research lab called Super Safeintelligence Inc.

In a press release, the lab said that Super Safeintelligence Inc. has “one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.”

A Super Safeintelligence spokesperson did not respond right away to a message sent outside of business hours asking for comment.