Jared Kaplan
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer; first author of the 2020 scaling-laws paper
Jared Kaplan co-founded Anthropic and is its Chief Science Officer, heading the company's technical research; Kaplan is also an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University. Anthropic's leadership page says Kaplan spent the first 15 years of their career as a theoretical physicist and, before Anthropic, helped build GPT-3 and Codex at OpenAI. Kaplan is first author of "Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models" (2020), whose contribution statement says Kaplan and Sam McCandlish led the research, and last author of the Constitutional AI paper (2022). Claude's constitution credits Kaplan with creating the Claude Character project with Amanda Askell in 2023.1256
Work
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Equal-contribution first author of the 2020 paper on power-law scaling of language-model loss with model size, dataset size and compute; its contribution statement says Kaplan and Sam McCandlish led the research.2
HumanEvalOpen data
Equal-contribution author of the 2021 Codex paper that introduced HumanEval; the paper lists Kaplan with Anthropic AI and notes the work was performed while at OpenAI.34
Constitutional AI (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Last-listed author of "Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback" (2022).5
Claude's constitution (external site: anthropic.com)Published research
The document's acknowledgements say Kaplan worked with Amanda Askell to create the Claude Character project in 2023 and set the direction for the new constitution, which Anthropic released under a CC0 1.0 deed.6
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