Alec Radford

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First author on the original GPT paper, on GPT-2, on CLIP and on Whisper — an unusual concentration of foundational work in one person. DCGAN before that. Whisper was released openly with weights and remains the default speech recognition model for anyone who does not want to send audio to an API.

Curator’s note

Four papers, four subfields. Almost no public profile.

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Painted from a photograph of Alec Radford by Alec Radford, supplied by the subject.

Sources

• 01Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training (2018) cdn.openai.com
• 02Whisper on GitHub github.com