Jakub Pachocki serves as OpenAI's chief research scientist, a position he has held since May 2024. As a teenager, he felt uncertain about his career path until he read a Polish-translated version of Paul Graham's 'Hackers and Painters,' which greatly inspired him. Pachocki joined OpenAI in 2017, taking over from cofounder Ilya Sutskever as chief scientist. The book 'Hackers and Painters' includes essays that discuss the commonalities between hackers and painters, emphasizing their roles as makers who create innovative works.
"My dad gave me this book when I was, I think I was like 15, I was pretty unsure of what I wanted to do. It was a Polish version of a book by some author I didn't know called 'Hackers and Painters.'"
"What hackers and painters have in common is that they're both makers. Along with composers, architects, and writers, what hackers and painters are trying to do is make good things."
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