.Northwestern Medicine & Northwestern Engineering are excited to offer a new 1-year Artificial Intelligence #Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship w/ key faculty James D Thomas, MD, Kristian Hammond & Dr. Patrick McCarthy! Click the link to apply: bit.ly/2DWrVw7 #AI #CV

I love OpenAI and their work in Language Modeling. The language their system generates is gorgeous. Have to admit, I love even more that Narrative Science stories are all grounded in fact. Reading well is good. Being true is even better. Hen Yeks wired.com/story/ai-text-…

Kristian Hammond Hen Yeks OpenAI For commercial NLG this still remains imperative. Quality and predictability are important for the majority of commercial users of NLG who want to be sure that their automatic text generation system will not be source of legal liability in itself.

Looking forward to Brisbane in March for Automate 2019. Working with blackbook.ai to help bring AI to the Enterprise. Staying Southeast and popping down to Melbourne as well. First time in Australia for me. Figure the plane time alone will get me caught up on work.

Thanks for the call out Kristi. We're excited about this new program. Not just for Medicine but for other areas (Law, Education, Business) where AI is having impact.

The Northwestern MSAI program is excited to host an in-person info session on 3/14 at MATTER. Join us to discuss the complexities of artificial intelligence and how this newly offered program is preparing students for a career in the field. tinyurl.com/MSAIatMATTER

Two rival AI approaches combine to let machines learn about the world like a child MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com/s/613270/two-r… I love this work. Just as data was the inflection point for ML, ML and the knowledge it produces can be the inflection point for scaling semantics. Best of both.

Busy week. Join me, 4/10 from 6-7pm at TechNexus Venture Collaborative to talk about the AI ecosystem, the realities of the technologies of intelligence, and what they mean to us. We'll talk about where Northwestern is going and introduce our new AI program Register here: bit.ly/2UsJ1vi

Terrific book by Jonathan Copulsky, Garth Andrus, Anh Phillips, Jerry Kane focused on the human side of digital transformation. Clear view that change is driven by people, not by technology alone. Human in the loop isn't a buzzword, it's an essential truth and best practice for technology

My favorite part of working at the intersection of CS and other fields is the opportunity to work with the people who drive those fields. Working with Daniel B. Rodriguez on the need to shape the impact of technology on the law is great example of this: thehill.com/opinion/judici…

New Yorker (John Seabrook) on GPT-2 and the awesome power of card tricks. There is a crucial difference between generating words and generating language. Predicting the next word is not the same as saying what you mean. And a prompt is not an idea. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

So proud of my lab, the team at Rheaply, and everyone at Kin + Carta. Building a medical resource exchange and an information platform isn't simple and they did it in real time. mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/…

And in the midst of all that is happening, I forgot that Steve Lohr wrote a great article that gave language understanding the respect it was due. And he let me talk about one of my favorite examples: Mary Smith... nytimes.com/2020/04/08/tec…

Andrew Paley, one of my Ph.D. students has a successful side gig as a musician. The Pandemic got in the way of touring so he decided to integrate both sides of his brain into an album that utilizes BigGAN to generate visuals. Read more, get the album: mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/…

When self driving cars go bad... Join Ryan Calo, madeleine clare elish & Todd Murphey for: Autonomous Systems Failures: Who is Legally and Morally Responsible? Wed Nov 18 4:00-5:15 pm CST Register: tiny.cc/NU_AI Northwestern Law & Tech Initiative & AI@NU #Law4AI #NLawCS

FT article on GPT-3. Language modeling as a card trick. ft.com/content/512cef…

When we started Hen Yeks, the question was who would want natural language explanations of what is happening in the world based on their data. It seems Salesforce has figured out a use in the acquisition of Hen Yeks for integration with Tableau rb.gy/mgxfew

Excited to be part of making AI work better by assuring it will work safer. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/0…

The view of safety in this article is sad. …-independent-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.indepe… It ignores the power of AI to impact individuals and society. To be safe, we need to focus on how to steer that impact. Focusing on "killer robots" we ignore the power of the machine whispering advice in our ears

Excited to announce the first call for proposals for projects in the operationalizing of safety in intelligent systems from the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI). casmi.northwestern.edu Proposal deadline: 09/26/2022 casmi.northwestern.edu/call-for-propo…