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TRAILS Announces Second Round of Seed Funding
Melissa Jamie Brachfeld Melissa Jamie Brachfeld

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.

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TRAILS AI Summer Academy Empowers Future AI Innovators
Saie Ganeshkumar Wable Saie Ganeshkumar Wable

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).

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Hal Daumé III is a Language Person
Maria Ann Herd Maria Ann Herd

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.

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Rising Stars Workshop Engages Machine Learning Community
Maria Ann Herd Maria Ann Herd

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.

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AI: What’s next in 2024
Maria Ann Herd Maria Ann Herd

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.

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Let’s Chat About AI on Campus
Abby Robinson Abby Robinson

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.

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Grand Challenges Grant Launches Values-Centered AI Initiative
Maria Ann Herd Maria Ann Herd

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.

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