Bhavana Dalvi is a Lead Research Scientist on AI2’s Aristo team. — What put you on the path to your current role? I was introduced to the fascinating world of machine learning (ML) for the first time during my master’s studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. After graduating from IITB, I had an excellent opportunity to work at Google. Here, I witnessed ML’s effectiveness at solving several real-world problems…

Kiana Ehsani is a Research Scientist on AI2’s PRIOR team. — What put you on the path to your current role? Oh well, where to begin? It all started in 6th grade when I had an incredible computer science teacher. We had the option to choose an elective course each semester, and in 6th grade I chose computer programming. After the semester ended, I was convinced I wasn’t very good at…

Highlighted work from our institute appearing at this year’s EMNLP conference — Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is a leading conference in the area of natural language processing and artificial intelligence. Every year, AI2 is proud to have many of our researchers represent their work at this important event. Feeling overwhelmed by EMNLP 2022 proceedings? Looking for a faster way…

Caçula Stoddard is a Senior Facilities Coordinator at AI2. What put you on the path to your current role? I graduated from Colgate University in central New York and moved back home to Hawaii for a master’s in social work. Post degree, I worked for the government in Child Protective Services and transitioned over to working at a homeless shelter for teens upon moving to Washington from Hawaii. After…

Exploring DREAM and DREAM-FLUTE by Yuling Gu Trying to understand the complex world around us — and explaining that world and our experience of it to others — is a particularly human trait. Perhaps that’s why, in every known language, there is what is known as figurative language. Figurative language includes things like metaphors…

By Luca Weihs and Ani Kembhavi — AI is becoming ever-present in our daily lives. Advances in this space mean the technology can not only recommend a video for you to watch or identify the objects in an image, but it can also power a robot that vacuums your house, and may one day drive your car…

On October 1st, 2022, Peter Clark took on the role of interim CEO for the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). Peter was the first official member of AI2 when the institute was founded by Paul G. Allen in 2014 with the mandate of pursuing “AI for the Common Good.” He…

In our efforts to better understand artificial intelligence, we’ve identified the building blocks of AI, discussed biases that can exist in datasets, reviewed ways in which AI models are measured for accuracy and success, and talked about up-and-coming alternatives to these measurements. One of the remaining questions that interest the…

Katie Keith was a Young Investigator on the Semantic Scholar team at AI2. — Please introduce yourself, tell us a little about the work you’ve done at AI2, and where you’re headed next. I graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a PhD in Computer Science in August 2021 and then joined AI2 in September for a one-year postdoctoral research position. I just recently joined Williams College as an Assistant Professor in their Computer Science department.