The postdoctoral Young Investigator program at AI2 allows those within a year of completing their PhD, or those who already have a PhD, to spend one to three years diving deeply into their area of research interest before moving into the next phase of their career. …

Highlighting our institute’s core values of impact, accountability, transparency, and collaboration. —

NAACL 2022 is happening in AI2’s hometown of Seattle, WA. We’re looking forward to meeting colleagues and collaborators old and new, and talking about the exciting work we’re representing at this important event. …

A new general-purpose model with unprecedented breadth, Unified-IO can handle a wide array of vision and language tasks. — A new model from AI2’s PRIOR team, Unified-IO is the first neural model to perform a large and diverse set of AI tasks spanning classical computer vision (including object detection, segmentation, and depth estimation), image synthesis (including image generation and image in-painting), vision-and-language (including visual question answering, image captioning and…

Semantic Scholar’s newest addition to its growing list of open data services will recommend recently published papers and preprints to users — Today, the Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI released their Recommendations API, a new public service that can recommend recently published papers or preprints to researchers based on a learned model of their topical interests. …

Sam Skjonsberg is a Principal Software Engineer on the Research Visualization (ReViz) team at AI2. — What put you on the path to your current role? In the wake of the dot-com bubble I decided to abandon the CS major to pursue something “more employable.” I bounced from Economics to Digital Arts (I was clearly confused) and ended up graduating with a degree in Business Information Systems. At graduation, I had a lucrative job offer to…

AI2’s computer vision research team PRIOR has a lot going on at CVPR 2022—this article is a rundown of the exciting work we’re representing at this important conference, and where to find us if you’re also attending. 🎷 Workshops Embodied AI Workshop [June 19]— this workshop was co-organized by representatives across…

by Will Buchanan and Jesse Dodge — The science is clear: the World Meteorological Organization reported that global temperature has a 50% probability of exceeding 1.5°C of warming within the next five years. Scientists have set this as the ceiling for avoiding catastrophic climate change; when we reach this as a long-term threshold, we can expect unprecedented…

The world’s oceans are critically important to life on Earth. They produce at least 50% of the planet’s oxygen, absorb about 30% of the carbon dioxide produced by humans, and their biodiversity can also help protect against the effects of climate change. …