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AI2 NEWSLETTER | 2019
Year in Review
Our Top Ten Milestones of
2019
Check out some of
our favorite
research milestones,
new ideas, demos,
tools, and more,
presented
chronologically in
this special review
issue of the AI2
Newsletter.
1
- Iconary
In February our
computer vision
research team
PRIOR
launched Iconary, showcasing the
world’s first AI
system capable
of playing a
Pictionary-style
drawing and
guessing game
together with a
human
partner.
More about
Iconary in
Science
Magazine:
Pictionary-playing
computer
connects
to
humans’
‘deep
thoughts’
2
- Gender
Parity in CS
Research 100
Years Away
An
analysis
we released in
June of over 3
million computer
science papers
reveals that
women will not
reach parity
with men in the
authorship of
published CS
research in this
century if
current trends
hold.
More about this
surprising
finding in The
New York Times:
The
Gender
Gap in
Computer
Science
Research
Won’t
Close
for 100
Years
3
- Grover
Detects Fake
News
In June, we took
a big step
toward
addressing
the threat of
machine-generated
disinformation
with a fake news
detector—and
generator—called
Grover. Try it for
yourself, and read more
about the
motivation and
context of this
new research on
the AI2 Blog.
4 - New
Office in
Tel Aviv
We opened a
vibrant new Tel
Aviv office,
lead by
distinguished
NLP
researcher Yoav
Goldberg and
including team
members Jonathan
Berant
, Reut
Tsarfaty
, and Ron
Yachini. This new
office will
focus on
bringing people
closer to
information with
advanced
language-centered
AI.
Learn
more: allenai.org/ai2-israel
Supp.AI is a free
resource that
searches our
AI-curated
corpus of
millions of
biomedical
papers and
identifies
potential
supplement/drug
interactions
noted in the
scientific
literature.
Learn more about
this powerful
tool from The
Verge: Supp AI
Uses
Machine
Learning
to
Identify
Supplement
Interactions
7 - Green AI
The
ever-increasing
computations
required for
deep learning
research are
costly, with a
large carbon
footprint. This
year we
proposed a new
approach
to measuring
deep learning
success, with
the goal of
making AI both
greener and more
inclusive.
More in The New
York
Times: At
Tech’s
Leading
Edge,
Worry
About a
Concentration
of
Power
8 - Semantic
Scholar
Covers All
Scientific
Domains
2019 was a big
year for
the AI2
Incubator – this
exciting group
of entrepreneurs
and
technologists is
a key part of
the incredible
startup
ecosystem coming
together in
Seattle.
Meet Nick
Botner, AI2's
Senior Product
Designer and the
man behind our
brand new logo!
Learn about how
he found his way
to graphic
design, what
went into our
new logo, and
his thoughts on
the many
wonderful local
bird species in
Seattle in our
latest AI2
Blog post.
Why are so
many AI
systems
named after
Muppets?
Learn about this
interesting AI
naming trend in
this coverage
from
The
Verge
– a unique way
researchers
acknowledge the
prior work that
supports new
advancements. It
all started with
AI2's own
ELMo!
Thanks to all of our team
members, collaborators,
visitors, and supporters for a
great year!
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