What will happen to OpenAI now that OpenAI’s Chief Scientist has departed?
The NewYorkTimes.com reported “Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist who in November joined three other board members to force out Sam Altman, the company’s high-profile chief executive, before saying he regretted the move, is leaving the San Francisco A.I. company.” The May 14, 2024 article entitled “OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company” (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/technology/ilya-sutskever-leaving-openai.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) included these comments:
In a statement, Dr. Sutskever said: “I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build A.G.I. that is both safe and beneficial.” A.G.I., or artificial general intelligence, is an as-yet-unbuilt technology that can do anything the brain can do.
Dr. Sutskever, 38, added that he was starting a new project, but did not elaborate.
Last year, Dr. Sutskever helped create a Super Alignment team inside OpenAI to explore ways of ensuring that future versions of the technology would not do harm. Like others in the field, he had grown increasingly concerned that A.I. could become dangerous and perhaps even destroy humanity.
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