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AI2 NEWSLETTER | April
2021
In this
edition: AI2 gains
Vulcan's suite
of conservation
projects,
RoboTHOR gains a
robotic arm, the
toxicity lurking
in popular
language models,
and more.
Vulcan's Conservation
Programs Join AI2
Bringing together Paul Allen’s
vision for advancing AI,
improving life on Earth,
impacting human lives, and
following AI2’s mission of ‘AI
for the Common Good' – we're
excited to announce that the
suite of environmental and
conservation initiatives at
Vulcan, Inc. will be joining our
institute in September 2021!
Look for a special issue on
these new teams and projects
coming up later this year.
We're pleased to announce the
3.0 release of our embodied AI
framework AI2-THOR, which adds
active object manipulation in a
new environment called ManipulaTHOR—a first-of-its-kind virtual
agent with a highly articulated
robot arm, bringing a more
human-like approach to
interacting with a variety of
objects.
By enabling the training and
evaluation of generalized
capabilities in manipulation
models, ManipulaTHOR allows
for faster training in more
complex environments as
compared to current
real-world training methods,
while also being far safer
and more cost-effective.
Read the paper here: ManipulaTHOR: A
Framework for Visual
Object Manipulation
Reading larger and larger
amounts of text from the web
(news, blogs, etc.) has taught
the latest natural language
processing (NLP) systems such as
GPT-3
to produce coherent, almost
human-like texts of their own.
Unfortunately, relying on web
text for training these systems
can lead to biased or toxic
results. Are these systems
safe to deploy, and what risks
do they pose of producing
offensive, problematic, or toxic
content?
Learn more in our interactive
demo:
Real Toxicity Prompts
We interview
Aristo Sr.
Research
Scientist Tushar
Khot about what
he's been up to
lately, what
he's looking
forward to
working on next,
some research
advice, and more
(including a
kitten photo!)
on the
AI2 Blog.
AI2
Incubator
graduate
Ozette
raises $6m
in funding
Ozette, a life
sciences startup
incubated at
AI2, recently
raised $6
million in seed
funding from
Madrona Venture
Group and the
AI2 Incubator
Fund. A
collaboration
between AI2 and
the Fred
Hutchinson
Cancer Research
Center, Ozette
will use the
seed funding to
accelerate
breakthroughs in
disease-tracking.
Learn
more: Ozette
raises $6
million for
immune
system-monitoring
tech |
VentureBeat
Breaking
down
paywalls and
building
bridges
across
disciplines
with open
access
Looking back at
the first year
of the pandemic,
we have some
interesting
insights
into the
significant
benefits of open
access to
scientific
research.
CORD-19 One
Year Later
Looking
back
over a year of
impact in this
interview with
COVID-19 Open
Research Dataset
(CORD-19)
co-creators Lucy
Lu Wang and Kyle
Lo, researchers
at AI2.
A trio of
RoboTHOR
Challenges
for 2021
We recently
launched the
ObjectNav,
Rearrangement,
and ALFRED
challenges
at the
CVPR 2021
Embodied-AI
Workshop. These
challenges
require AI
agents to
navigate
environments,
rearrange rooms,
and follow
complex
instructions in
the AI2-THOR
environment.
Leaderboards for
these challenges
close on May
31st, 2021!
