Jeff Clune
UBC professor and Recursive co-founder; former OpenAI research manager and Senior Research Advisor to DeepMind
Jeff Clune is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, and a co-founder of Recursive; Clune's research focuses on deep learning, including deep reinforcement learning. Clune was previously a Senior Research Advisor to DeepMind, a research manager at OpenAI, a Senior Research Manager and founding member of Uber AI Labs, the Harris Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Wyoming, and a Research Scientist at Cornell University. Clune co-authored the Video PreTraining (VPT) paper, whose openai/Video-Pre-Training repository is MIT-licensed, and "The AI Scientist" (2024).12345
Work
Video PreTraining (VPT) (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author of "Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos" (2022), which trains a behavioral prior from online videos of Minecraft play labeled by an inverse dynamics model. The openai/Video-Pre-Training repository is MIT-licensed.34
The AI Scientist (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery" (2024), a framework in which language models generate research ideas, run experiments and write papers.5
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