Project Collaborator
Ari Holtzman
Biography
Ari Holtzman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at the University of Chicago, where he runs the Conceptualization Lab. His lab's motto is "Untangling the Ineffable" because he believes one of the primary purposes of all human endeavor is to create new vocabulary to help articulate the world more clearly. His research focuses on generative models of language, including contributions like Nucleus Sampling. Ari currently focuses on two things: (1) What abstractions should we use to describe LLMs (e.g., persona, absence blindness, etc.)? (2) What can we do with LLMs that has never been done before (e.g., choice-dense narrative video games, writing that is "directed" instead of manually written, conversational analysis at the billion conversation scale). Ari completed his PhD at the University of Washington, where he won the William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award and was part of the team that won the inaugural Amazon Alexa Prize in 2017.
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