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**[Ilya Sutskever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever "w:Ilya Sutskever")** (1985/86) is a Russian-born Israeli-Canadian [computer scientist](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Computer_scientist "Computer scientist") working in [machine learning](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Machine_learning "Machine learning"), who co-founded and serves as Chief Scientist of [OpenAI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI "w:OpenAI"). He has made several major contributions to the field of [deep learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/deep_learning "w:deep learning"). He is the co-inventor, with [Alex Krizhevsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Krizhevsky "w:Alex Krizhevsky") and [Geoffrey Hinton](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton "Geoffrey Hinton"), of [AlexNet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlexNet "w:AlexNet"), a [convolutional neural network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/convolutional_neural_network "w:convolutional neural network").

## Quotes

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- There was a period of time when we were starting OpenAI when I wasn’t exactly sure how the progress would continue. But I had one very explicit belief, which is: **one doesn’t bet against deep learning**. Somehow, every time you run into an obstacle, within six months or a year researchers find a way around it.

  - [Exclusive: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/26/1082398/exclusive-ilya-sutskever-openais-chief-scientist-on-his-hopes-and-fears-for-the-future-of-ai/) (in en). MIT Technology Review.

- I’ve always been inspired and motivated by the idea. It wasn’t called AGI back then, but you know, like, having a neural network do everything. I didn’t always believe that they could. But it was the mountain to climb.
  - [Exclusive: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/26/1082398/exclusive-ilya-sutskever-openais-chief-scientist-on-his-hopes-and-fears-for-the-future-of-ai/) (in en). MIT Technology Review.

- ... the safeguards he wants to design: a machine that looks upon people the way parents look on their children. “In my opinion, this is the gold standard,” he says. “It is a generally true statement that people really care about children.” (Does he have children? “No, but I want to,” he sa

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