Ideas: Accelerating Foundation Models Research: AI for all
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I’m excited to share the mic today with three guests to talk about a really cool program called Accelerating Foundation Models Research, or AFMR for short. With me is Cesar Torres, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas, Arlington, and the director of a program called The Hybrid Atelier. More on that soon. I’m also joined by Muhammed Idris, an assistant professor of medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine. And finally, I welcome Evelyne Viegas, a technical advisor at Microsoft Research. Cesar, Muhammed, Evelyne, welcome to Ideas!
EVELYNE VIEGAS: Pleasure.
CESAR TORRES: Thank you.
MUHAMMED IDRIS: Thank you.
HUIZINGA: So I like to start these episodes with what I’ve been calling the “research origin story” and since