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OpenAI announces new hires to help achieve company goals
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The new hires, including Dario Amodei, Filip Wolski, Jack Clark, and Scott Gray, bring diverse expertise in AI research, engineering, and communications to help OpenAI achieve its goals, benefiting the research, engineering, and communications teams
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💡 OpenAI is expanding its team with experts in AI research, engineering, and communications to drive progress towards its goals
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OpenAI announces new hires to help achieve company goals
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# Team update
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We’ve[hired](https://openai.com/careers/)more great people to help us achieve our[goals](https://openai.com/index/openai-technical-goals/). Welcome,everyone!
## Full-time
* **Dario Amodei**.[Dario(opens in a new window)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934)was one of the lead authors of[Deep Speech 2(opens in a new window)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02595), a speech system which achieved near-human performance on many speech tasks. He is also a main co-author of “[Concrete Problems in AI Safety(opens in a new window)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565)”, which highlights issues related to accidents in machine learning systems. Prior to OpenAI, he worked at Google Brain.
* **Filip Wolski**.[Filip’s(opens in a new window)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/filip-wolski-a7273728)recent background is in “practical” modeling, having spent the last few years working in the high-frequency trading space. In the past he enjoyed problem-solving in programming competitions, and won the[IOI(opens in a new window)](http://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/768)and[ACM ICPC(opens in a new window)](https://icpc.baylor.edu/community/history-icpc-2007).
* **Jack Clark**.[Jack(opens in a new window)](https://twitter.com/jackclarksf)has spent the past few years writing about artificial intelligence and distributed systems, most recently at Bloomberg and BusinessWeek. His articles have covered technologies like[memory networks(opens in a new window)](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-06-09/the-future-of-computers-is-the-mind-of-a-toddler),[image generation(opens in a new window)](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-02/computers-learn-how-to-paint-whatever-you-tell-them-to), and[reinforcement learning for robots(opens in a new window)](http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-preschool-for-robots/), and issues like[diversity within AI(opens in a new window)](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-23/artificial-intelligence-has-a-sea-of-dudes-problem). As our Strategy and Communications Director, he will help with community outreach, policy, communications, and strategy.
* **Scott Gray**.[Scott(opens in a new window)](https://twitter.com/scottgray76)was previously an engineer at[Nervana Systems(opens in a new window)](https://www.nervanasys.com/author/scott-g/)where he focused on optimizing the performance of deep networks on GPUs. His[assembly-level optimizations(opens in a new window)](http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09308)for dense linear algebra and convolution remain the fastest available. When not[writing software(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/scott-gray)he’s usually spending his time reading up
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# Team update
We’ve hired more great people to help us achieve our goals. Welcome, everyone!
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We’ve[hired](https://openai.com/careers/)more great people to help us achieve our[goals](https://openai.com/index/openai-technical-goals/). Welcome,everyone!
## Full-time
* **Dario Amodei**.[Dario(opens in a new window)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934)was one of the lead authors of[Deep Speech 2(opens in a new window)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02595), a speech system which achieved near-human performance on many speech tasks. He is also a main co-author of “[Concrete Problems in AI Safety(opens in a new window)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565)”, which highlights issues related to accidents in machine learning systems. Prior to OpenAI, he worked at Google Brain.
* **Filip Wolski**.[Filip’s(opens in a new window)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/filip-wolski-a7273728)recent background is in “practical” modeling, having spent the last few years working in the high-frequency trading space. In the past he enjoyed problem-solving in programming competitions, and won the[IOI(opens in a new window)](http://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/768)and[ACM ICPC(opens in a new window)](https://icpc.baylor.edu/community/history-icpc-2007).
* **Jack Clark**.[Jack(opens in a new window)](https://twitter.com/jackclarksf)has spent the past few years writing about artificial intelligence and distributed systems, most recently at Bloomberg and BusinessWeek. His articles have covered technologies like[memory networks(opens in a new window)](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-06-09/the-future-of-computers-is-the-mind-of-a-toddler),[image generation(opens in a new window)](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-02/computers-learn-how-to-paint-whatever-you-tell-them-to), and[reinforcement learning for robots(opens in a new window)](http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-preschool-for-robots/), and issues like[diversity within AI(opens in a new window)](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-23/artificial-intelligence-has-a-sea-of-dudes-problem). As our Strategy and Communications Director, he will help with community outreach, policy, communications, and strategy.
* **Scott Gray**.[Scott(opens in a new window)](https://twitter.com/scottgray76)was previously an engineer at[Nervana Systems(opens in a new window)](https://www.nervanasys.com/author/scott-g/)where he focused on optimizing the performance of deep networks on GPUs. His[assembly-level optimizations(opens in a new window)](http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09308)for dense linear algebra and convolution remain the fastest available. When not[writing software(opens in a new window)](https://github.com/scott-gray)he’s usually spending his time reading up
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