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Ilya Sutskever: The Mastermind Behind GPT-4 and the Future of AI

Eye On A.I.

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How Did You Become Interested in Artificial Intelligence?

I was born in Russia, I grew up in Israel and then as a teenage year my family immigrated to Canada. My parents say I was interested in AI from a pretty early age. In 2003 we took it for granted that computers can't learn. The biggest achievement of AI back then was deep blue, the chess plane engine. But there it was like you have this game and you have this simple way of determining if one position is better than another. It really did not feel like that could possibly be applicable to the real world because there is no learning and learning was this big mystery. And so I was really, really interested in learning."

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