Adam Tauman Kalai is an American computer scientist who specializes in machine learning and works at OpenAI[1][2].
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Fields | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence |
| Institutions | Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Georgia Tech Microsoft Research OpenAI |
| Doctoral advisor | Avrim Blum |
Education and career
editKalai graduated from Harvard University in 1996 and received a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, where he worked under doctoral advisor Avrim Blum. He did his postdoctoral study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming a faculty member at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and then the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Microsoft Research in 2008[3][4] and subsequently moved to OpenAI in 2023.[1][2]
Contributions
editKalai is known for his algorithm for generating random factored numbers (see Bach's algorithm), for efficiently learning learning mixtures of Gaussians, for the Blum-Kalai-Wasserman algorithm for learning parity with noise, and for the intractability of the folk theorem in game theory.
More recently, Kalai is known for identifying and reducing gender bias in word embeddings, which are a representation of words commonly used in AI systems[4][5] and for his work on hallucinations in large language models.[1]
Personal life
editKalai is the son of professor Ehud Kalai and is married to fellow researcher Yael Tauman Kalai.[6][7]
References
edit- ^ a b c Levy, Steven (January 5, 2024), In Defense of AI Hallucinations, retrieved 2024-03-19
- ^ a b Adam Tauman Kalai, retrieved 2024-03-19
- ^ Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference, 2016, retrieved 2019-01-28
- ^ a b Pinkerton, Byrd (August 12, 2016), He's Brilliant, She's Lovely: Teaching Computers To Be Less Sexist, National Public Radio (NPR), retrieved 2019-01-28
- ^ Gholipour, Bahar (March 10, 2017), Algorithms Learn From Us, and We Can Be Better Teachers, NBC, retrieved 2019-09-01
- ^ Knies, Rob (May 14, 2009), New England Researcher Finds Her Bliss, Microsoft
- ^ Weinreb, Gali (August 20, 2023), "Who'll blink first? The mathematics of politics", Globes
External links
edit- Adam Tauman Kalai publications indexed by Google Scholar