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TOP 10 05 Ilya Sutskever
Mustafa Suleyman

TOP 10 05 Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder and chief scientist at Open AI
Open AI

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Mustafa Suleyman

VP of artificial intelligence policy
Google
Mustafa Suleyman grew up in the London borough of Islington . At the age of 19 , Suleyman dropped out of college to pursue mental health work and later become the policy officer on human rights for the mayor of London , Ken Livingstone .
Suleyman co-founded British Artificial Intelligence firm , DeepMind , which was bought by Google in 2014 . He is prominent in the debate over the ethics of AI and has spoken widely about the need for organisations to join in holding technologists accountable for the impacts of their work .
After graduating from the University of Toronto ’ s Department of Computer Science , in 2012 , Sutskever spent two months as a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University . Following on from this , Sutskever co-invented the software developments AlphaGo and Tensorflow as well as the Alexnet , convolutional neural network .
He went on to work for Google Brain , to create the sequence to sequence learning algorithm . In 2015 he left Google to become the director of the OpenAI institute and was the keynote speaker for Nvidia NTECH 2018 and AI Frontiers Conference 2018 .
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