Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton's 2003 meeting at the University of Toronto led to AlexNet and the rise of OpenAI

In 2003, at the University of Toronto, 17-year-old Ilya Sutskever met Professor Geoffrey Hinton, who mentored him. Together with Alex Krizhevsky, they created AlexNet, a neural network that brought them to Silicon Valley and contributed to the rise of OpenAI. The film 'Artificial' by Luca Guadagnino chronicles this journey, focusing on the conflict between Sutskever, who urged caution, and Sam Altman, who pushed for rapid AI development. The film highlights a corporate coup that led to Sutskever's ouster. The creators emphasize that AI is a human story and a warning about potential extinction or magic.