Sara Hooker
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Sara Hooker is a computer scientist who works in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).[1][2] Known for her work on model efficiency at scale, large language models and areas of research on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning.[3][4][5] Launched the Cohere For AI scholars program to increase entry points into AI research. Listed as one of AIs top 13 innovators by Fortune.[6]
The advisory board of Patterns and on Kaggle's ML Advisory Research Board. On the World Economic Forum council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence.[7] Member of the MLC research group, which has a focus on making participation in machine learning research more accessible. Sara Hooker is a VP of Research at Cohere. Serves on the World Economic Forum council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence.
Early life and Education
[edit]Sara Hooker was born in Dublin, Ireland. At four years old, her parents moved to Lesotho. She grew up in South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho, Eswatini and Kenya until she was 19.[8]
Sara Hooker is a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute,[citation needed] a Bachelors from Carleton College in a Double Major in Economics and International Relations, and an Economics degree from the FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas). She also has an International Baccalaureate in IB Diploma from the United World College Waterford Kamhlaba.
Career
[edit]In 2014, she founded Delta Analytics, a non-profit dedicated to bringing technical capacity to help non-profits use machine learning. Now Sara Hooker is an Advisor at Delta Analytics.[9]
In 2017, Sara Hooker joined Google Brain as a research scientist who worked on interpretability, efficiency at scale. She was part of the original research team involved in founding the Ghana engineering office, Google's first engineering office in Africa.[10][11]
In April 2022, Sara joined start-up Cohere to lead Cohere For AI.[12][13] The lab has since released capstone projects like Aya which aim to increase multilingual coverage by doubling the number of languages served by an LLM.[14] The goal of the lab is to open source research and engineering projects at scale. Sara also launched a compute grant program to aim to bridge the resource gap.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ Tiku, Nitasha (2023-10-25). "AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "The Hardware Lottery – Communications of the ACM". 2021-12-01. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ Goldman, Sharon (2024-02-13). "Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ "AI chatbots fall short in dozens of languages. A non-profit project aims to fix that". The Globe and Mail. 2023-11-19. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ "New AI polyglot launched to help fill massive language gap in field". axios.
- ^ "13 top A.I. innovators shaping how the tech will impact our lives". Fortune Europe. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "sara-hooker". World Economic Forum.
- ^ Hooker, Sara (2018-10-30). "Slow Learning". Medium. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ Goldman, Sharon (2022-06-14). "Google Brain alum to helm new nonprofit AI research lab". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ Kuuire, Joseph-Albert (2019-04-11). "Google Officially Opens Its AI Research Centre In Accra". Tech Labari. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ Goldman, Sharon (2022-08-03). "How analog AI hardware may one day reduce costs and carbon emissions". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ "The push to make big AI small". axios.
- ^ "This nonprofit thinks it knows how to solve the A.I. talent shortage". Fortune. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ Lima-Strong, Cristiano (2024-02-13). "Analysis | FTC's Bedoya says laws to keep teens off social media won't work". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ "Announcing the Cohere For AI Research Grant Program". Context by Cohere. 2023-07-11. Retrieved 2024-03-20.