Who is on the OpenAI Board that fired Sam Altman? Take a look
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as chief technology officer (CTO), has been appointed as the company's interim CEO with immediate effect as the company seeks a permanent replacement. Murati's appointment comes after OpenAI in a recent statement announced the departure of co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman. The company said an internal review highlighted Altman's lack of consistent transparency in communications with the board of directors.
Consequently, the board lost confidence in his ability to lead OpenAI effectively. OpenAI’s board of directors consists of OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, independent directors Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner. We take a look Born around 1985/86, Sutskever is a Russian-born Israeli-Canadian computer scientist specialising in machine learning.
He co-founded OpenAI and holds a prominent role within the organisation. Known for his contributions to deep learning, Sutskever is credited as a co-inventor, alongside Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of the neural network, AlexNet. He is also among the co-authors of the AlphaGo paper.
Also Read: What OpenAI's new CEO Mira Murati thinks about AI, ChatGPT & more He has a BSc in mathematics and computer science from the University of Toronto under the mentorship of Geoffrey Hinton. His professional trajectory includes a brief postdoctoral stint with Andrew Ng at Stanford University, followed by a return to the University of Toronto to join DNNResearch, a venture stemming from Hinton's research group. Google later acquired DNNResearch, appointing Sutskever as a research scientist at Google Brain, where he contributed to significant developments,
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