Defending Ilya: from AlexNet to CoT, why calling Sutskever a grifter misses his track record
FoundTheCode · x · 2026-11-04
Responding to claims that Ilya Sutskever is a "grifter," FoundTheCode counters with his record: co-building AlexNet, Seq2Seq at Google, major AlphaGo contributions, early validation of the scaling hypothesis at OpenAI, and pioneering CoT/test-time compute.
- Conclusion: "He basically invented AI as we know it" — and invites specifics to debate
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