CLSP Fall Seminar Series: Parisa Rashidi

Description

Parisa Rashidi, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, will present a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar titled "AI and Pervasive Sensing: The Silent Guardians of Tomorrow's ICU."

Rashidi is also affiliated with the Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Computer & Information Science & Engineering departments and is the director of the Intelligent Health Lab (i-Heal). Her research aims to bridge the gap between machine learning / artificial intelligence and patient care.

Abstract:

Recently, we have seen tremendous progress in the field of language models (LMs), with the release of numerous open models and closed application programming interface (API) systems. However, fewer and fewer disclose how they are created: Which corpora do they use? How are they trained? How much energy do they consume? In this talk, I will provide an overview of OLMo, an initiative at Ai2 aimed at creating transparent artifacts and tools that advance the science of LMs. I will discuss current releases, such as Tulu, Dolma, and OLMo-7b, as well as the goals, ethical, and legal considerations of this initiative, and what's coming next.