Polish researchers praised for breakthroughs by OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has praised two Polish researchers for their pivotal roles in the company’s advances in artificial intelligence.
In a recently published blog post, Altman described the development of large-scale AI as “the greatest story of human ingenuity I have ever seen” and credited Poles Jakub Pachocki and Szymon Sidor with work that repeatedly “defied expectations.”
Altman added that the two “have not gotten enough public credit.”
“Impossible problems”
He praised Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, and Sidor, a veteran researcher at the company, for combining research and engineering to solve “impossible problems.”
Altman said that they had built much of the infrastructure supporting OpenAI’s scientific breakthroughs.
One milestone he pointed to was their decision to expand trial-and-error learning, despite skepticism from experts, a bold step that enabled OpenAI’s system to eventually master the highly complex video game Dota 2.
“OpenAI has not yet thrown a problem at them they have not been able to solve,” Altman said.
Other Poles at OpenAI
Altman also acknowledged the wider role of Polish talent in OpenAI’s history.
He mentioned Łukasz Kaiser, known for advancing the theoretical foundations of large language models, and Wojciech Zaremba, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, who helped steer the company’s early research in robotics and reinforcement learning.
Polish researchers, Altman emphasized, have been integral to OpenAI’s success from its earliest days.
Source: TVP World
