OpenAI

Aidan currently works at OpenAI on model design and capabilities.

Topology

Aidan McLaughlin led the Topology Research Corporation which runs an AGI-themed long-only investment fund.

Topology is backed by Starship Ventures.

Leela Chess Zero

Aidan anonymously worked with the Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) team from 2018 to 2020 on benchmarking and model topology. Leela Chess Zero won the TCEC world championship in 2019 and 2020.

Essays

Aidan’s Essays

AidanBench

AidanBench is a large language model creativity benchmark created by Aidan McLaughlin, James Campbell, and Anuja Uppuluri. You can find the code for it here. AidanBench was accepted to NeurIPS and will drop on Arxiv soon.

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Interests

Aidan is from Buffalo, New York and spends time in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, New York City, and Buffalo. Aidan enjoys Wittgenstein, Vegan activism, violin, piano, Spikeball, and distance running.

Aidan was the president of Miami University’s Chess Team, and plays in USCF. Aidan occasionally ranks top in America at competitive Clash Royale. Before research at Topology, Aidan worked on multi-agent reinforcement learning and RL for internet graph exploration.