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At the Forefront of Machine Learning Computer scientist Derry Wijaya builds tools to translate "low-resource" languages and track how media perspectives shape public opinion May 19, 2020 | By Jeremy Schwab In an analog world, translating from one language to another was often done with the help of a dictionary. In today’s digital world, with access to incredibly fast computer algorithms and a vast amount of data, researchers are building a new landscape for language translation. And because computers are the ones doing the translating in this new reality, the landscape is one tha...

This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in Google Search and other text analysis products. Among the risks is the large carbon footprint of developing this kind of AI technology. By some estimates, training an AI model generates as much carbon emissions as it takes to build and drive five cars over their lifetimes. I am a researcher who studies and develops AI models, and I am all too fam...

By Kate Saenko Dec 15, 2020 This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in Google Search and other text analysis products. Among the risks is the large carbon footprint of developing this kind of AI technology. By some estimates, training an AI model generates as much carbon emissions as it takes to build and drive five cars over their lifetimes. I am a researcher who studies and develops AI ...

Kate Saenko is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, and the director of the Computer Vision and Learning Group and member of the IVC Group. She also leads the new AI Research (AIR) initiative, which is housed at the Hariri Institute for Computing. She received her PhD from MIT. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at UMass Lowell, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley EECS and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineerin...