Nathan is a machine learning researcher who works on building, understanding, and advocating for open language models and other responsible autonomous systems. He is currently a post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI.

PapersGoogle Scholar, my CV, Semantic Scholar, see PhD Thesis.
Talks
YouTube channel or CV.
NewsletterInterconnects.ai
BookRLHF Book

Recent: Building American Truly Open Models (ATOM Project - atomproject.ai), finished the web version of my RLHF book, coming to print soon!

Upcoming: The Curve (Oct 3-5), COLM (Oct 6-10), PyTorch Conference (Oct 21-24), NeurIPS (Dec 10-15)


Podcast appearances

I host two podcasts (sporadically).

  1. Interconnects Interviews cover the latest technical trends in AI.
  2. (On hold) The Retort covers the political economy and stakes of AI.

Otherwise, I sometimes appear on friends' podcasts:

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Guides

Some useful links for graduate students and academics.

Popular Posts

Some of my most popular posts before transitioning to Substack (Top Posts there).

Other

  • Office Hours - I (sometimes) hold regular office hours through the ML Collective.
  • Contact - Get in touch with me.
  • Bookshelf - Books I've read and recommend.
  • Buy me a ☕️ - Support my work.
  • RLHF Book - My upcoming book on reinforcement learning from human feedback.