"I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman," computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said on Tuesday.Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images; Kent Nishimura via Getty ImagesGeoffrey Hinton isn't a fan of Sam Altman's leadership.Hinton said in a press conference on Tuesday that he thought Altman valued profits over safety.Hinton's protégé, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, played a key role in Altman's brief ouster.Newly minted Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton says he's proud that one of his former students had a part to play in Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI in November.Hinton, who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, was speaking at a press conference on the same day when he weighed in on Altman and OpenAI."I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman," Hinton said, referencing his protégé and OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.Sutskever graduated with his Ph.D.

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