Chris Olah

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Chris Olah

Summary

Chris Olah is a human[1]. He worked as a researcher[2] and programmer[3]. He ranks in the top 0.65% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,247 views/month, #6,525 of 1,000,298).[4]

Key Facts

  • Chris Olah's professions included researcher[2].
  • Chris Olah's professions included programmer[3].
  • Chris Olah's field of work was natural language processing[5].
  • Chris Olah's field of work was deep learning[6].
  • Chris Olah's field of work was mechanistic interpretability[7].
  • Chris Olah was employed by Google[8].
  • Chris Olah was employed by OpenAI[9].
  • Chris Olah was employed by Anthropic[10].
  • Chris Olah is recorded as male[11].
  • Chris Olah's instance of is recorded as human[12].
  • Chris Olah's residence is recorded as United States[13].
  • Chris Olah's given name is recorded as Christopher[14].
  • Chris Olah's official website is recorded as https://colah.github.io.[15].
  • Chris Olah's Google Scholar author ID is recorded as 6dskOSUAAAAJ[16].
  • Chris Olah's X is recorded as ch402[17].
  • Chris Olah's Facebook username is recorded as christopherolah9[18].
  • Chris Olah's GitHub account is recorded as colah[19].
  • Chris Olah's YouTube channel ID is recorded as UCN0k-SUscpT7tnBpa0edqMw[20].
  • Chris Olah's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11f04tppbt[21].
  • Chris Olah's LinkedIn personal profile ID is recorded as christopher-olah-b574414a[22].
  • Chris Olah's Hacker News username is recorded as colah3[23].
  • Chris Olah's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+57821'}[24].
  • Chris Olah's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+51350'}[25].
  • Chris Olah's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+65021'}[26].
  • Chris Olah's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+73700'}[27].

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Career and Affiliations

Recorded occupations include researcher[2] and programmer[3]. Fields of work include natural language processing[5], an academic discipline[28]; deep learning[6]; and mechanistic interpretability[7]. Employers include Google[8], a business[29], in United States[30], founded in 1998[31], headquartered in Mountain View[32]; OpenAI[9], an enterprise[33], in United States[34], founded in 2015[35], headquartered in San Francisco[36]; and Anthropic[10], a company[37], in United States[38], founded in 2021[39], headquartered in San Francisco[40].

Why It Matters

Chris Olah ranks in the top 0.65% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,247 views/month, #6,525 of 1,000,298).[4] He is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

FAQs

What did Chris Olah do for work?

Chris Olah worked as researcher[2] and programmer[3].

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  10. [10] . time.com. time.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . gayanvoice / top-github-users. wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . news.ycombinator.com. news.ycombinator.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

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  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [4] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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