About the Speakers:

Terence Tao is a professor of Mathematics at UCLA; his areas of research include harmonic analysis, PDE, combinatorics, and number theory. He has received a number of awards, including the Fields Medal in 2006. Since 2021, Tao also serves on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Ilya Sutskever is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI, which aims to build artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity. He leads research at OpenAI and is one of the architects behind the GPT models. Prior to OpenAI, Ilya was a co-inventor of AlexNet and of Sequence to Sequence Learning. He earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

Daniel Selsam is a researcher at OpenAI. He completed his PhD at Stanford University in Computer Science in 2019, and has worked on many paradigms of AI reasoning including interactive theorem proving, probabilistic programming, neural SAT solving, formal mathematics, synthetic data generation, and now large language models.

Jakub Pachocki is the Principal of Research at OpenAI, where he led training of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five. He finished a PhD studying optimization methods.