Noam Brown recalls the poster session that led to collaboration with @ssokota
Noam Brown met @ssokota 5 years ago at a conference poster session, offered him an internship after hearing his explanation, and continued collaborating with him; @ssokota now works with Brown at @OpenAI. Later, @ssokota told Brown he had been the only person to stop by his poster during the entire session. In the quoted post, @ssokota describes their Nature paper introducing the first superhuman Stratego AI, built using general techniques they developed for RL and test-time compute under imperfect information.
Why it matters: Brown’s recollection provides a concrete example of how a conference poster conversation led to an internship, continued research collaboration, and eventually a shared workplace.