Connor Leahy
| Connor Leahy | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 1995 (age 31)[1] |
| 🏳️ Nationality | German-American |
| 💼 Occupation | Entrepreneur, Artificial Intelligence Researcher |
| 🏢 Organization | EleutherAI, Conjecture |
| Known for | Co-founder and co-lead of EleutherAI, founder of Conjecture |
| Notable work | GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, BLOOM, VQGAN-CLIP, Stable Diffusion, OpenFold |
Connor Leahy is a German-American entrepreneur and artificial intelligence researcher. He is best known as a co-founder and co-lead of EleutherAI, a grassroots non-profit organization focused on advancing open-source artificial intelligence research.[2][3] Leahy is also the founder of Conjecture,[4][5][6][7] a startup working on AI alignment, the task of making machine learning models controllable.[8]
EleutherAI
Leahy co-founded EleutherAI during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, along with Leo Gao and Sid Black.[3] Originally a Discord server for discussing GPT-3, EleutherAI evolved into a leading non-profit research institute focusing on interpretability and alignment of large models. The organization has developed or helped develop many powerful publicly available models, such as GPT-J, GPT-NeoX,[9] BLOOM, VQGAN-CLIP, Stable Diffusion, and OpenFold. With over 25 million downloads, EleutherAI has enabled cutting-edge research on interpretability, ethics, training dynamics, and more.[3][8]
Conjecture
Leahy co-founded Conjecture in 2022 with Sid Black and Gabriel Alfour, a startup that aims to scale AI alignment research.[2] Conjecture is located in London and is supported by notable investors, including Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Patrick and John Collison, Arthur Breitman, Andrej Karpathy, and Sam Bankman-Fried.[8][2] The founders and early staff are mainly EleutherAI alumni and independent researchers, such as Adam Shimi.[2]
Influence
Connor Leahy is often consulted in podcasts and articles on AI alignment, and large language models.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ "Conjecture Ltd". Retrieved April 30, 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Leahy, Connor. "We Are Conjecture, A New Alignment Research Startup". Retrieved April 30, 2023 – via www.lesswrong.com.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "About". EleutherAI.
- ↑ "The New AI-Powered Bing Is Threatening Users. That's No Laughing Matter". time.com. 17 February 2023. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
- ↑ "AI Researcher: There's more regulation on selling sandwiches than on 'God-like' tech". cnn.com. 2 May 2023. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
- ↑ "Tech CEO warns AI risks 'human extinction' as experts rally behind six-month pause". foxnews.com. April 2023. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
- ↑ "Elon Musk & Steve Wozniak Sign Open Letter Calling For Moratorium On Some Advanced A.I. Systems". yahoo.com. 29 March 2023. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Smith, Tim. "'We are super, super fucked': Meet the man trying to stop an AI apocalypse". Retrieved April 30, 2023.
- ↑ Black, Sid (14 Apr 2022). "GPT-NeoX-20B: An Open-Source Autoregressive Language Model". arXiv:2204.06745 [cs.CL].
 | This article about a United States businessperson is a stub. You can help EverybodyWiki by expanding it. |
This article "Connor Leahy" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Connor Leahy. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
