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). …

Highlighted work from our institute appearing at this year’s CHI conference — The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference for the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). CHI — pronounced ‘kai’ — annually brings together researchers and practitioners from all over the world and from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and positionalities, who have as an overarching…

Tara Wilkins is an IT Engineer for AI2. What put you on the path to your current role? Growing up in the Seattle area in the late 90’s/early 00’s, as a kid I watched as our tech industry grew from huge, to omnipresent as it took over the city and many of our lives. …

Sonia Fereidooni, a BS/MS student at the UW Allen School, has been named the recipient of AI2’s 2023 Allen AI Outstanding Engineer Scholarship. We offer this scholarship to one outstanding engineering student each year as part of our ongoing efforts to encourage diversity and equity across AI disciplines and career…

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…