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Geoffrey Hintonaccepted a Nobel Prizethis workweek , make out the foundational employment on artificial neural web that earned him the nickname “ godfather of AI.”In a speech Tuesday , Professor Hinton praise one student – advert to OpenAI ’s former Chief Scientist , Ilya Sutskever – for revolting against OpenAI ’s CEO .
“ I was particularly fortunate to have many very clever students – much cleverer than me – who actually made thing work , ” enunciate Hinton . “ They ’ve gone on to do great things . I ’m particularly proud of the fact that one of my student fired Sam Altman . ”
Of course , Hinton is referring to OpenAI ’s boardvoting to can Altman in November 2023 . Sutskever delivered the word to Altman via video call , but afterwards said he rue it . Hinton seems to have celebrated the firing of OpenAI ’s CEO as a profits for AI base hit , which he often advocates for . However , the win was short - inhabit , as Altman now has more control over OpenAI than before , and hecould before long get equity .
