University of Warsaw
Carnegie Mellon University
Giambattista ParascandoloResearch Fellow · OpenAIResearcher↗
Researcher
Jakub Pachocki
OpenAIChief Scientist
🇵🇱 PolishBorn 1991
Pachocki led development of GPT-4, which handles language and images[1], and OpenAI Five, which defeated world champions in the team game Dota 2[2]. His research helped scale AI systems and improve how they learn through trial and error; he succeeded Ilya Sutskever as OpenAI’s chief scientist in 2024.
Career & education
Current roleOpenAIMay 2024-presentChief Scientist
OpenAIMay 2024-presentPreviouslyOpenAI2017-2024Research Lead -> Director of Research
Harvard University2016-2017Postdoc
OpenAI2017-2024Harvard University2016-2017Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Selected contributions
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
- OpenAI Five defeats Dota 2 world championsopenai.com
Victory against world champion OG in April 2019.
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