Favyen Bastani is a Research Scientist with PRIOR — What put you on the path to your current role? During my PhD at MIT, I spent several years working on improved methods for detecting roads in satellite images. We came up with several interesting methods, but early on my focus was all on chasing higher accuracy numbers, with a greater emphasis on the novelty of a method than its…

This year’s internal Hackathon encouraged collaboration, fast thinking — and fantastic snacks! — Every year, AI2 hosts an internal Hackathon for all employees to pitch their wildest ideas and join forces with cross-functional collaborators to create anything they can think of, so long as it serves our mission of AI for the common good. In past years, Hackathon projects have led to hilarious…

Pradeep Dasigi is a Senior Research Scientist with AllenNLP — What put you on the path to your current role? It all started when I attended a summer school on Natural Language Processing in my third (junior) year of college in India (15 years ago!). I had not heard of NLP before then and was fascinated by the idea of applying algorithms to process human languages. That led me to…

Highlighted work from our institute appearing at this year’s ACL conference — The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is the premier conference in the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language. AI2 is thrilled to have multiple researchers represented at this year’s conference.

Iz Beltagy is a Senior Research Scientist with AllenNLP — What put you on the path to your current role? My NLP graduate course with Ray Mooney at UT Austin in the second semester of my Ph.D., in the spring of 2012. The next semester, I started working with Ray and Katrin Erk. This was the perfect time to start a Ph.D. …

AI Researcher, Executive, and Forbes Top 5 AI Entrepreneur Ali Farhadi to Lead Institute’s Next Chapter — The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) today announced Ali Farhadi will become its new Chief Executive Officer, effective July 31. Founded in 2014, AI2 is the research institute created by the late philanthropist Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, to drive high-impact AI research and engineering. The 501(c)3 nonprofit…

Highlighted work from our institute appearing at this year’s CVPR conference — The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. This year, CVPR will be single track such that everyone (with full passport registration) can attend everything. There will also be…

Ashwin Kalyan is a Research Scientist with Aristo at AI2 — What put you on the path to your current role? My father was a scientist at the National Aerospace Laboratories in India and often took me with him to work when I was a high school student. During these visits, I interacted with him and his colleagues, browsed through various books in their vast library, and most importantly, learned to…

Today, the Allen Institute for AI is excited to announce that we are embarking on the creation of an open, state-of-the-art generative language model: AI2 OLMo (Open Language Model). OLMo will be comparable in scale to other state-of-the-art large language models at 70 billion parameters, and is expected in early…