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Co-founder, Interpretability
as of Jan 2021
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Employed BymK9pX3rQ7nJan 20213 pts▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2021 | Anthropic | anthropic.com | f_PbzJNYhoQQ |
| 2018 | OpenAI | — | f_RewqjBXgsA |
| 2015 | Google DeepMind | — | f_fUPJ9kzk8w |
Role / TitleCo-founder, InterpretabilityJan 2021▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2021 | Co-founder, Interpretability | anthropic.com | f_ITucptJN5g |
Background
EducationAttended University of Toronto (did not complete degree); Thiel Fellow—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Attended University of Toronto (did not complete degree); Thiel Fellow | colah.github.io | f_cO1aB2cD3e |
GitHubhttps://github.com/colah—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | https://github.com/colah | — | f_qzkd7k85wt |
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vKAKE1gAAAAJ—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vKAKE1gAAAAJ | — | f_s2rmoloko5 |
Notable ForPioneer of neural network interpretability and visualization; co-founder of Anthropic; creator of Distill.pub and the Circuits thread at Transformer Circuits—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Pioneer of neural network interpretability and visualization; co-founder of Anthropic; creator of Distill.pub and the Circuits thread at Transformer Circuits | colah.github.io | f_cO4fG5hI6j |
General
Websitehttps://colah.github.io—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | https://colah.github.io | — | f_pdsb5nkkx7 |
Career History
3| Organization | Title | Start | End | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Brain | Research Scientist | 2015 | 2018 | colah.github.io | Published influential neural network visualization work; co-founded Distill.pub |
| openai | Research Scientist | 2018 | Jan 2021 | colah.github.io | Continued interpretability research; decided to leave to co-found Anthropic |
| anthropic | Co-founder; Research Lead, Mechanistic Interpretability | Jan 2021 | — | anthropic.com | Leads mechanistic interpretability research; Transformer Circuits thread; scaling monosemanticity work |
▶Internal Metadata
| ID | Tz48rTriBg |
| Stable ID | Tz48rTriBg |
| Numeric ID | E59 |
| Type | person |
| YAML Source | packages/kb/data/things/chris-olah.yaml |
| Facts | 10 structured |
| Records | 3 in 1 collection |
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