内容来源：https://blog.samaltman.com/jakub-and-szymon

内容总结：

聚焦幕后英雄：OpenAI崛起路上的两匹“黑马”

近年来，人工智能技术突飞猛进，ChatGPT等产品凭借其惊人的能力，已然成为我们日常生活中习以为常的存在。这背后，不仅是人类科技进步的必然趋势，更凝聚了无数科研人员的智慧与汗水。然而，在AI光鲜亮丽的外表下，许多幕后英雄的身影却鲜为人知。近日，一篇引发广泛关注的博文，将两位对OpenAI举足轻重、却长期“隐身”的科学家推向台前，揭示了他们为AI发展所做出的卓越贡献。

文章指出，这两位关键人物便是Jakub Pachocki和Szymon Sidor。如果没有他们，OpenAI的成就或将大打折扣。这对搭档以其将理论研究与工程实践完美结合的能力而闻名，屡次攻克被业界视为“不可能”的难题。尽管他们尚未获得与贡献相匹配的公开荣誉，但他们的工作深刻影响了OpenAI的发展轨迹。

据透露，在深度强化学习领域，当主流观点普遍认为其无法有效扩展时，正是Jakub和Szymon大胆尝试将其作为基线进行规模化测试，从而取得了Dota项目上的突破性成果。不仅如此，他们还主导搭建了大部分支撑OpenAI诸多科学发现的基础设施，并引领了GPT-4的预训练工作。更值得一提的是，他们与Ilya Sutskever和Lukasz Kaiser等人共同提出了最初的设想，最终促成了AI推理能力的飞跃。目前，他们仍在积极探索新的范式，持续推动AI技术的边界。

文章特别提到，Jakub Pachocki已担任OpenAI的首席科学家一职。他曾用“不知疲倦”来形容Szymon Sidor，这恰如其分地描绘了这位搭档的特质。据内部人士透露，迄今为止，OpenAI没有遇到他们无法解决的问题。这对搭档的合作模式，让人联想到昔日顶尖实验室中两名学者珠联璧合的佳话，他们的默契配合与不懈努力，正是OpenAI能够取得今日成就的深层动力。

在AI浪潮席卷全球的当下，这些幕后英雄们的付出，无疑为我们理解人工智能的飞速发展提供了新的视角。他们的故事提醒我们，在享受科技便利的同时，也应关注并致敬那些默默耕耘、推动人类进步的科学家和工程师们。

英文原文：

AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for granted. This is as it should be, and is the story of human progress. But behind the blinking circle, nicely abstracted away, is the greatest story of human ingenuity I have ever seen. A lot of people have worked unbelievably hard to discover how to build something that most experts thought was impossible on this timeframe, and to build a company to deliver products at massive scale to let people benefit from it. Most people who use ChatGPT will never think about the people that put so much work into it, which is totally ok, but just to take a minute of your time…
There are two people I'd like to mention that OpenAI would not be OpenAI without: Jakub Pachocki and Szymon Sidor. Time and again, they combine research and engineering to solve impossible problems. They have not gotten enough public credit, but they decided to scale up RL as a baseline to see where it broke when the conventional wisdom was that it didn't scale which led to our Dota result, built much of the infrastructure that enabled a lot of our scientific discoveries, led GPT-4 pretraining, drove together with Ilya and Lukasz the initial ideas that led to the reasoning breakthrough, and have made significant progress exploring new paradigms.
There are two people I'd like to mention that OpenAI would not be OpenAI without: Jakub Pachocki and Szymon Sidor. Time and again, they combine research and engineering to solve impossible problems. They have not gotten enough public credit, but they decided to scale up RL as a baseline to see where it broke when the conventional wisdom was that it didn't scale which led to our Dota result, built much of the infrastructure that enabled a lot of our scientific discoveries, led GPT-4 pretraining, drove together with Ilya and Lukasz the initial ideas that led to the reasoning breakthrough, and have made significant progress exploring new paradigms.
Jakub is our chief scientist. He once described Szymon as “indefatigable”, which is as perfect of a use of that word as I have ever heard. OpenAI has not yet thrown a problem at them they have not been able to solve; I have heard about partnerships like there is research labs of the past where two people are able to complement each other so well, but it is very special to get to watch it unfold over the years.