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On October 1st, 2022, Peter Clark took on the role of interim CEO for the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). Peter was the first official member of AI2 when the institute was founded by Paul G. Allen in 2014 with the mandate of pursuing “AI for the Common Good.” He…

An impressive new open-source QA model from AI2 — While OpenAI’s GPT-3 system has proved to be remarkably effective at many tasks, including question-answering (QA), it is still out of reach for many organizations, being only available to approved users for a fee. While there are a few other pretrained QA systems available, none has quite matched GPT-3’s few-shot…

Our new Research Dashboard uses state-of-the-art AI to recommend the right papers — Semantic Scholar aims to empower scholars to discover and understand scientific literature most relevant to their work. Today, we’ve taken another step in that by improving the way you create, manage, and view your research feeds with our newly updated Research Dashboard. Earlier this year, we improved our Library feature…

An exciting lineup of projects and the talented teams behind them will become part of AI2 in September. — Note: This post will be updated with relevant information as this exciting transition develops. Last updated 10 August 2021. Vulcan, Inc.’s suite of conservation-related projects and the talented teams behind them will join AI2 in September of 2021. This move will combine world-class research, engineering, product resources, and talent to…

Astral intelligence can be defined as thought-forms, logic-cycles, patterns or sentient entities that exist in specific frequency ranges that interact with our reality. — Artificial Intelligence promises a new world run by software with near infinite potential, being able to solve even the most difficult problems. But what about sentient AI, or Astral Intelligence : AI2? While the two seem similar they are quite different, one being artificial and the other organic. …

Estimates indicate that global scientific output doubles every nine years. For many researchers, this translates to hours spent every week just trying to keep up with the latest discoveries. …

The internet was originally created for the distribution of academic information, but decades later much of the scholarly work produced is not easily accessible. Fortunately, many disparate efforts in the open access movement are working to change that. …