Conversations

Founder to Fortune
PodcastGuest

Leveraging Cutting-Edge AI in E-commerce

A conversation with Vidya Raman about applying cutting-edge AI to e-commerce.

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Authored by AI
PodcastGuest

Episode 3: AI That Writes 101

A primer on generative AI and systems that write.

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The TWIML AI Podcast
PodcastGuest

AI Trends 2023: Natural Language Processing, ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Cutting-Edge Research

A look ahead at language-model research and the rapidly changing generative-AI landscape.

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Machine Learning Street Talk
PodcastGuest, with Yasaman Razeghi

#73 — NLP Benchmarks

A discussion of what language-model benchmarks measure—and what they miss.

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The TWIML AI Podcast
PodcastGuest

AI Rewind 2020: Trends in Natural Language Processing

A review of the year's most important developments in natural language processing.

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The TWIML AI Podcast
PodcastGuest

Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models

A conversation about CheckList and testing NLP systems beyond aggregate accuracy.

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NLP Highlights
PodcastGuest

117 — Interpreting NLP Model Predictions

A discussion of explanation methods, their evaluation, and the limits of interpretability.

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Synced
Written Q&AInterview

Semantic-Based Adversarial Examples Fool Face Recognition

An invited expert Q&A on semantic adversarial examples and face-recognition systems.

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CTV Your Morning
TelevisionLive interview

Explainable AI: The Push to Make Sure Machines Don't Learn to Be Racist

A national television interview in Canada about explainable and accountable AI.

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Press & Coverage

GeekWire
ProfileFeatured

Walmart Tech Vet and AI2 Research Scientists Are Behind New Seattle Startup Spiffy

A profile of Spiffy, its founding team, and its approach to AI-assisted commerce.

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Popular Science
ArticleExpert commentary

What Happens If AI Grows Smarter Than Humans?

Quoted on the idea of an AI singularity and what current systems can—and cannot—do.

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Popular Mechanics
ArticleExpert commentary

ChatGPT Is a Very Sophisticated Guessing Engine

An extended explanation of how ChatGPT works, why it sounds convincing, and where it fails.

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VentureBeat
Research coverageFeatured work

AI Researchers Create Testing Tool to Find Bugs in NLP Systems

Coverage of CheckList and its use in systematically testing commercial NLP models.

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WIRED
ArticleExpert commentary

This Technique Uses AI to Fool Other AIs

Quoted on universal adversarial triggers and the vulnerabilities they expose in language models.

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Freethink
ArticleExpert commentary

Quoted on Deep Learning and Explainability

Quoted on deep learning and the challenge of understanding how modern AI systems reach decisions.

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InfoQ
Research coverageFeatured work

AI Researchers' Open-Source Model Explanation Toolkit: AllenNLP Interpret

Coverage of AllenNLP Interpret, an open-source toolkit for explaining NLP model predictions.

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Forbes
ArticleExpert commentary

Don't Trust Artificial Intelligence? Time to Open the AI Black Box

Quoted on explainable AI and the need to understand consequential machine-learning decisions.

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TheWrap
ArticleInterview

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's Artificial Intelligence Divide: Experts Weigh In

Interviewed about competing views of AI risk and the gap between present systems and general intelligence.

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Fast Company
ArticleExpert commentary

Why the Military and Corporate America Want to Make AI Explain Itself

Quoted on why explanation matters when machine-learning systems affect high-stakes decisions.

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University News

UCI ICS
NewsFeatured

The Race for AI: Time to Raise Awareness

Singh on LLM safety, interpretability, and the risks of rapidly advancing AI.

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UCI ICS
NewsFeatured work

ICS and Google Researchers Awarded Best Task Paper for Automatically Updating Wikipedia

The FRUIT project by Singh and PhD student Robert Logan won Best New Task Paper at NAACL 2022.

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UCI ICS
NewsAward

NSF CAREER Awards for Stephan Mandt and Sameer Singh

Announcement of Singh's NSF CAREER award for research on the robustness of NLP models.

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UW Allen School
NewsFeatured

Allen School Researchers Earn Best Paper Award at ACL 2020

Singh, a former Allen School postdoc, and colleagues win Best Paper at ACL 2020 for CheckList.

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UCI ICS
NewsAward

Sameer Singh Wins Best Paper Award at ACL 2020

His CheckList paper on behavioral testing of NLP models won Best Paper at ACL 2020.

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UCI News
NewsAward

Five UCI Junior Faculty Named Hellman Fellows for 2020-21

Singh named a Hellman Fellow to develop intuitive explanations for machine-learning predictions.

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UCI ICS
NewsFaculty advisor

ZotBot Competing in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge

UCI's ZotBot team, advised by Singh, competes in Amazon's Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge.

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UMass Amherst
NewsFeatured

UMass Computer Scientists Improve Access to Millions of U.S. Patent Records

Singh named on the UMass team, led by Andrew McCallum, that won a USPTO inventor-disambiguation prize.

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