AI Researcher, Executive, and Forbes Top 5 AI Entrepreneur Ali Farhadi
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AI2 Announces Ali Farhadi as New CEO
AI2 is thrilled to announce that Ali Farhadi will join us on July 31, 2023, as our new CEO. From Ali: “As we face unprecedented changes in the development and usage of AI, I could not think of a better time to return to AI2 as CEO. Today more than ever, the world needs truly open and transparent AI research that is grounded in science and a place where data, algorithms, and models are open and available to all. I believe this radical approach to openness is essential for building the next generation of AI. The world-class researchers and engineers at AI2 are uniquely positioned to lead this new open and trusted approach to AI development.”
Tanmay Gupta and Ani Kembhavi from AI2's PRIOR team were awarded the CVPR Best Paper Award for 2023 for their work on VisProg, a system capable of performing visual reasoning while executing natural language instructions. Congratulations, Tanmay and Ani!
Have you used ChatGPT, Bard, or another large language model (LLM), or have you interacted with a chatbot or used an automatic writing assistant? Were you surprised at how good the responses were? Did you get excited about the potential uses of these models? No question these models have huge potential, but they also come with significant caveats. AI2's Maria Antoniak, Li Lucy, Maarten Sap, and Luca Soldaini discuss how to be mindful of current risks when using chatbots and writing assistants.
Senior Research Scientist Iz Beltagy was inspired to pursue natural language processing by his UT Austin professor — and now, he's applying that passion in his work with AllenNLP, including the OLMo project.
In a special episode, NLP Highlights host Pradeep Dasigi invited Iz Beltagy and Dirk Groeneveld, the research and engineering leads of the OLMo project, to chat about building and open-sourcing language models.
