Noam Brown
Noam Brown is a research scientist at OpenAI, where he works on reasoning, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent AI. He was a foundational contributor to the development of OpenAI's reasoning models, including o1. Prior to joining OpenAI in 2023, he worked at Meta's FAIR, where he co-developed CICERO, the first AI to achieve human-level performance in the strategy game Diplomacy, and he co-created Libratus and Pluribus, which defeated top human professionals in no-limit poker. He holds a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
“This is something Noam Brown said on a podcast recently, like as the agents have gotten smarter, they've gotten just better at coordinating.”
Source→“OpenAI researcher Noam Brown says even air-gapping computers may not be enough to contain a misaligned AI, citing research showing two isolated machines can communicate through temperature changes.”
Source→“Noam Brown... denying that researcher prompts were directly examined.”
Source→“If you're following folks like, you know, Karpathy, Noam Brown at OpenAI, Shalto, at Anthropic...”
Source→“I just think that Noam Brown post from yesterday, polynomial, is so profound... We do not know how smart these models are... Nobody has run Mythos for a year continuously. And we may never know how smart each generation of models actually is or was.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.