Aaron DefazioMember of Technical Staff · OpenAIResearcher↗Both at OpenAI
Researcher
Christopher Hesse
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Career & education
Current role
Member of Technical Staff
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations163,228As of Nov 1, '26
citations+5,892Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
With Tom Brown, Ben Mann, Nick Ryder, Melanie Subbiah, Jared Kaplan, Prafulla Dhariwal, Arvind Neelakantan and others ·GPT-3 performs tasks from prompts and a few examples without task-specific training.
GPT-4 Technical Report
With OpenAI, Joshua Achiam, Steven Adler, Sandhini Agarwal, Lama Ahmad, Ilge Akkaya, Florencia Leoni Aleman and others ·Reported GPT-4's capabilities, limitations and safety evaluations as a text-and-image input model.
References
- GPT-4 Contributionsopenai.com
OpenAI credits Hesse on compute scaling and as a co-lead for infrastructure usability.
- Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learningopenai.com
OpenAI credits Hesse on its report about the system that learned through self-play and defeated the reigning Dota 2 champions.
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