October 13, 2022

UW鈥檚 Yejin Choi wins MacArthur Foundation 鈥榞enius grant鈥�

, 天美影视传媒 professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, .

The fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation comes with an $800,000 stipend, commonly known as the 鈥済enius grant,鈥� for recipients to use as they see fit. The Chicago-based foundation announced the 25 fellows on Wednesday.

Choi uses to develop artificial intelligence systems that have the ability to reason and can understand the implied meanings in human language. AI often uses rules-based models, such as logic or probability. But Choi says that these rules are too rigid to make sense of the nuances that most people take for granted when they talk to each other.

Read the full article in UW NEWS.