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Radford attended [[Cistercian Preparatory School]], graduating in 2011.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2012/05/01/cistercian-preparatory-school-s-literary-magazine-won-gold-crown-award/|title=Cistercian Preparatory School's literary magazine won Gold Crown Award|first=Deborah|last=Fleck|date=May 1, 2012|website=Dallas News}}] While in high school, he became an [[Eagle Scout]].[{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2010/12/14/at-cistercian-preparatory-school-eagle-scout-tradition-thrives/|title=At Cistercian Preparatory School, Eagle Scout tradition thrives|date=December 14, 2010|website=Dallas News}}] He attended [[Olin College]]. There he and fellow students Slater Victoroff, Diana Yuan, and Madison May formed the startup Indico in their dorm room. Radford dropped out of college in August 2014. They were joined by Luke Metz in 2015.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/10/business/how-couple-olin-college-students-helped-spark-ai-chatbot-revolution/|title=How a couple of Olin College students helped spark the AI chatbot revolution|first=Aaron|last=Pressman|date=2023-06-10|website=Boston Globe}}] |
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Radford attended [[Cistercian Preparatory School]], graduating in 2011.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2012/05/01/cistercian-preparatory-school-s-literary-magazine-won-gold-crown-award/|title=Cistercian Preparatory School's literary magazine won Gold Crown Award|first=Deborah|last=Fleck|date=May 1, 2012|website=Dallas News}}] While in high school, he became an [[Eagle Scout]].[{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2010/12/14/at-cistercian-preparatory-school-eagle-scout-tradition-thrives/|title=At Cistercian Preparatory School, Eagle Scout tradition thrives|date=December 14, 2010|website=Dallas News}}] He attended [[Olin College]]. There he and fellow students Slater Victoroff, Diana Yuan, and Madison May formed the startup Indico in their dorm room. Radford dropped out of college in August 2014. They were joined by Luke Metz in 2015.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/10/business/how-couple-olin-college-students-helped-spark-ai-chatbot-revolution/|title=How a couple of Olin College students helped spark the AI chatbot revolution|first=Aaron|last=Pressman|date=2023-06-10|website=Boston Globe}}] That year Indico and the Facebook AI research lab in New York, used [[Generative adversarial networks]], where a system creates fake data to fool another part of it into taking it for real training data, to create realistic low pixel images.[https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28548-computers-learn-to-create-photos-of-bedrooms-and-faces-on-demand/] |
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Radford joined [[OpenAI]] around 2016. There he worked on natural-language processing.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-gpt-4/674764/|title=Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating?|first=Ross|last=Andersen|date=July 24, 2023|via=The Atlantic}}][{{cite web |last=Woo |first=Erin |last2=Palazzolo |first2=Stephanie |title=Senior OpenAI Researcher Radford Departs |website=The Information |date=2024-12-19 |url=https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/senior-openai-researcher-radford-departs |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-07-13}}] |
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Radford joined [[OpenAI]] around 2016. There he worked on natural-language processing.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-gpt-4/674764/|title=Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating?|first=Ross|last=Andersen|date=July 24, 2023|via=The Atlantic}}][{{cite web |last=Woo |first=Erin |last2=Palazzolo |first2=Stephanie |title=Senior OpenAI Researcher Radford Departs |website=The Information |date=2024-12-19 |url=https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/senior-openai-researcher-radford-departs |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-07-13}}] |