Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly, with ChatGPT delivering capabilities once thought far off. While these achievements are widely recognised, the enormous effort and innovation behind them often remain unseen. Among those who played a pivotal role are Jakub Pachocki and Szymon Sidor. Their blend of research and engineering talent enabled breakthroughs that many considered impossible.
By scaling reinforcement learning systems when others doubted it would work, they helped drive OpenAI’s Dota project, built critical infrastructure for scientific discovery, and co-led the pretraining of GPT 4. Together with colleagues, they also introduced ideas that resulted in improved reasoning abilities, and they continue to explore new AI paradigms. The close partnership between these two researchers exemplifies the collaboration that fuels AI progress.
Original article: https://blog.samaltman.com/jakub-and-szymon