OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Leaves OpenAI
The team in YooCare reported that on May 15, OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever announced his departure. Ilya Sutskever, who was instrumental in leading the coup against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, ousting the CEO from the company and then changing his mind, said on Platform X, “Ilya is one of the greatest thinkers of his generation, a guiding light in the field, and a close friend.” Jakub Pachocki, who will take over as Chief Scientist, was previously responsible for the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five, and has considerable expertise in large-scale reinforcement learning and deep learning optimization. Ilya revealed on the X platform that he will be working on a new project of great personal significance to him. In addition, Jan Leike, the head of the SuperAligned team, has resigned and been replaced by another co-founder, John Schulman. These changes signal a rift within OpenAI.
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