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TRAILS Announces Second Round of Seed Funding
Five interdisciplinary projects, funded with seed grants ranging from $115K to $150K apiece, will advance novel AI research and scholarship that can impact education, transportation, emergency preparedness and health care.
TRAILS AI Summer Academy Empowers Future AI Innovators
The two-week academy featured mentoring from UMD faculty, a field trip to an interactive museum focused on language, and group projects that covered hot topics like neural networks, machine learning and large language models (LLMs).
TRAILS Researchers Discuss How AI Will Change the Way We Live
UMD’s Hal Daumé, Furong Huang and Katie Shilton were interviewed for a podcast series on how AI will impact education, work, culture and creativity.
Hal Daumé III is a Language Person
UMD’s Hal Daumé III discusses why we should stop worrying about autonomous AI systems and start thinking more about building systems that help people.
UMD Joins National Consortium Dedicated to Improving AI Trustworthiness and Safety
TRAILS is expected to significantly contribute to the new initiative.
AI-equipped PC will be One of the Biggest Changes for PCs in Decades
With AI-equipped personal computers on the horizon, UMD’s Hal Daume tells Yahoo Finance that they may not be worth all the hype.
TRAILS Announces First Round of Seed Funding
The eight funded projects, totaling just over $1.5 million, will advance cutting-edge research and scholarship that spans AI design, development and governance.
Addressing Gaps in Data Governance to Promote Trust in Generative AI
TRAILS partnered with the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub to host a conference to identify gaps in data governance related to large language models and discuss ideas to address them.
Rising Stars Workshop Engages Machine Learning Community
TRAILS is a sponsor of the University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning’s 2023 Rising Stars in Machine Learning Workshop, designed to support researchers from underrepresented groups. This year’s committee included UMD’s Soheil Feizi, Hal Daumé, Marine Carpuat and Tom Goldstein.
AI: What’s next in 2024
UMD’s Hal Daumé III shares his thoughts with Yahoo! Finance on how generative AI will move away from general-purpose applications like ChatGPT and toward specializations like weather predictions or medical research.
Researcher Heading New $20M NSF-Backed Institute Says Systems Should Support Societal Good
UMD’s Hal Daume discusses the current state of AI and the role that TRAILS will play moving forward.
AI Snake Oil is Here, and It’s a Distraction, says Daumé
UMD’s Hal Daume tells Yahoo Finance that the AI hype is distracting from important discussions about safety, with companies selling how the technology works rather than what it can actually accomplish.
Building Trust in AI: Three DC-Area Universities Involved in New Effort
MSU’s Virginia Byrne tells WTOP News that as AI becomes increasingly sophisticated and employed in programs people use every day, broadening who develops it and increasing the understanding of how it can be used is more important than ever.
With NSF Support, A Group of Tech and Policy Experts Team Up to Build More Trustworthy AI
UMD’s Hal Daumé III, principal investigator and the director of TRAILS, told Technical.ly that most AI development traditionally revolved around autonomous systems that operate almost entirely on their own. This makes them disconnected from the real world, which is an issue with how much AI has infiltrated everyday life.
From Voice Assistants to Algorithms, the UMD Community Uses AI in Unique Ways
UMD’s Hal Daumé III discusses how artificial intelligence takes many forms in our lives and how people at UMD are utilizing it for a variety of applications.
Let’s Chat About AI on Campus
UMD’s Hal Daumé III weighs in on the rise of eerily convincing language models that spur hopes and fears about the impact on education.
Grand Challenges Grant Launches Values-Centered AI Initiative
Hal Daumé, Katie Shilton, Hernisa Kacorri, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Furong Huang and Huaishu Peng are members of UMD’s new Center for Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence, which is focused on developing conceptual and technical frameworks to advance AI in a way that is not only ethical, but also places the well-being of people at the forefront.
For Maryland Professors, ChatGPT Presents an Opportunity to Rethink Instruction
The groundbreaking artificial intelligence can produce essays in seconds, but Morgan State’s Virginia Byrne and UMD’s Hal Daumé III are optimistic.
UMD Machine Learning Experts Presenting Multiple Papers and Workshops at ICML 2022
UMD’s Hal Daumé III, Tom Goldstein and Soheil Feizi are among a mix of UMD faculty, postdocs and students presenting 18 papers and featured in 18 workshops at the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning in Baltimore.
CLIP Lab Presents a Plethora of Papers and Workshops on Human-Centered NLP
UMD’s Marine Carpuat, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Hal Daumé presented papers at a conference focused on human-centered natural language processing.