Wojciech Zaremba is a Polish

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, a co-founder of

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(2016–now), where he leads both the

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research and language teams. The teams actively work on AI that writes computer code and creating successors to

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respectively. The mission of OpenAI is to build safe

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(AI), and ensure that its benefits are as evenly distributed as possible.

Early life

Zaremba was born in

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, Poland. At a young age, he won local competitions and awards in mathematics, computer science, chemistry and physics. In 2007, Zaremba represented Poland in the

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in Vietnam, and won a silver medal. Zaremba studied at the

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and

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mathematics and computer science, and graduated in 2013 with two master's degrees in mathematics. He then began his PhD at New York University (NYU) in deep learning under the supervision of

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and Rob Fergus. Zaremba graduated and received his PhD in 2016.

Career

During his bachelor studies, he spent time at

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during the pre deep learning era (2008). His PhD was divided between

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where he spent a year, and Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research where he spent another year. During his stay at Google, he co-authored work on adversarial examples for neural networks. This result created the field of adversarial attacks on neural networks. His PhD is focused on matching capabilities of neural networks with the algorithmic power of programmable computers. In 2015, Zaremba became one of the co-founders of

, a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company. The aim of the project is to create safe artificial intelligence. In OpenAl, Zaremba works as robotics research manager. Zaremba sits on the advisory board of Growbots, a

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startup company aiming to automate sales processes with the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Honors and awards

* 30 the most influential Polish before 30's, Polish edition of magazine "Forbes" 2017 * Google Fellowship 2015 * Silver Medal in 48th

, Vietnam

References

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