How did this AI scientist end up having a salary of $1.9 million?

A dive into the singular life of Ilya Sutskever

In 2015, Ilya Sutskever was a young computer scientist that was specializing in Deep Learning.

That year, Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator (the biggest startup accelerator in the world) emailed him:

Hey, let’s get dinner with some cool people.

Ilya ended up having dinner with Greg Brockman (co-founder of Stripe), Elon Musk, and other influential personalities. In the meeting, they explained they wanted to create a new AI lab. The timing was perfect for him, as he had been daydreaming about creating his own AI company.

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They founded the lab that years later became a world leader in AI research.

Creating advanced and scary technologies like the famous GPT, a deep learning model that’s capable of creating disturbingly real conversations. Like in this example, where GPT (as Norn) is introducing the programmer to a mystical world:

Norn, a virtual entity created with GPT-3 that’s capable of creating mystical stories.

In this article, we’re going to discover how this young scientist born in Russia ended up being one of the…