Spotify
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University of Michigan
New York University
Aaron DefazioMember of Technical Staff · OpenAIResearcher↗
Researcher
Jong Wook Kim
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Kim helped create CLIP, which connects images with written descriptions, and Whisper, a speech-recognition system trained across many languages and recording conditions.[1] He also contributed to GPT-4's visual abilities, helping bring image, text, speech, and voice into the same generation of AI products.
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Selected contributions
Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
With Alec Radford, Chris Hallacy, Aditya Ramesh, Gabriel Goh, Sandhini Agarwal, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell and others ·CLIP learns from image-caption pairs to recognize categories described in words.
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.
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
Whisper learns speech transcription and translation from large amounts of paired audio and text.
References
- Jong Wook Kim — personal websitejongwook.kim
Kim helped create CLIP, which connects images with written descriptions, and Whisper, a speech-recognition system trained across many languages and recording conditions.
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