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Research Focus: Week of April 15, 2024
In this issue: New research on appropriate reliance on generative AI; Power management opportunities for LLMs in the cloud; LLMLingua-2 improves task-agnostic prompt compression; Enhancing COMET to embrace under-resourced African languages:
In the news | ACM Bytecast
ACM Bytecast Ep49 – Jacki O’Neill
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts Jacki O’Neill, Director of the Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) in Nairobi, Kenya, where she is building a multi-disciplinary team combining research, engineering, and design to solve local problems globally. Her…
Exploring LLMs’ potential to help facilitators enhance online healthcare communities
| Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Jacki O'Neill, and Keshet Ronen
Many patients in low- and middle-income countries rely on facilitated online health communities for information and support. Discover how large language models can assist the facilitators and boost outcomes.
Research Focus: Week of October 23, 2023
In this issue: Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model; Can vine copulas explain complex relationships of weather variables; New system accelerates the adaptive training process; Structural inequalities and relational labor in the influencer industry.
In the news | Bill Gates Visit 2022
Bill Gates visits Kenya November 2022
On Thursday 17th November 2022, Bill Gates (opens in new tab) visited MARI and the ADC in Nairobi, Kenya. During his visit, the MARI was excited to present their research and academic engagements program to Bill Gates.