OpenAI Scholars 2018: Meet our Scholars

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July 25, 2018

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OpenAI Scholars 2018: Meet our Scholars

Our first class of OpenAI Scholars is underway, and you can now follow along as this group of experienced software developers becomes machine learning practitioners.

2019 Scholar Yuhao Wan. Photo: Blake Tucker

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Our first class of OpenAI Scholars⁠ is underway, and you⁠ can⁠ now⁠ follow⁠ along⁠ as⁠ this⁠ group⁠ of experienced software developers becomes machine learning practitioners. We had over 700 applicants for the 8 OpenAI Scholars slots and reviewed each application on a standardized list of criteria for maximal fairness. We hope this group inspires many other developers to make the transition to machine learning too.

OpenAI Scholars began their studies on June 1st, blogging weekly about their progress and culminating in an open-source final project. The scholars have written about model-based RL⁠, audio classification with softmax⁠, deep learning in simple English⁠, the k-nearest neighbors algorithm⁠, and attention⁠.

Meet the scholars:

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We selected Scholars with strong technical aptitude, interesting personal stories, and demonstrated self-starter initiative - important for a self-directed program like this one. They are all entering the field as newcomers, and we hope their progress shows how accessible machine learning is. After this first round of the Scholars program is complete, we’ll share their final projects, in addition to a case study about the program.

Thanks to AWS for providing compute credits to the scholars.

• 2018
• Culture & Careers

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Larissa Schiavo, Greg Brockman

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