--- title: After winning Nobel for foundational AI work, Geoffrey... description: Geoffrey Hinton, known as the 'godfather of AI,' received a Nobel Prize for his fundamental work on artificial neural networks. During his acceptance speech,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/after-winning-nobel-for-foundational-ai-work-geoffrey-hinton-says-he-s-proud-ilya-sutskever-fired--sux8bfzxl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: After winning Nobel for foundational AI work, Geoffrey Hinton says he’s proud Ilya Sutskever ‘fired Sam Altman’ | daily.dev og:description: Geoffrey Hinton, known as the 'godfather of AI,' received a Nobel Prize for his fundamental work on artificial neural networks. During his acceptance speech,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/after-winning-nobel-for-foundational-ai-work-geoffrey-hinton-says-he-s-proud-ilya-sutskever-fired--sux8bfzxl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sux8bFZxL.png og:image:alt: After winning Nobel for foundational AI work, Geoffrey Hinton says he’s proud Ilya Sutskever ‘fired Sam Altman’ og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # After winning Nobel for foundational AI work, Geoffrey Hinton says he’s proud Ilya Sutskever ‘fired Sam Altman’ **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Geoffrey Hinton, known as the 'godfather of AI,' received a Nobel Prize for his fundamental work on artificial neural networks. During his acceptance speech, he praised Ilya Sutskever for firing OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman, viewing it as a victory for AI safety. However, despite the firing, Altman has since regained even more control over OpenAI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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