Yejin Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research combines natural language processing with computer vision, exploring image captioning, multimodal knowledge learning, and visual entailment. She has also worked on modeling connotation and writing style to analyze why the text is written (intent) and by whom (identity). Choi received a PhD in computer science from Cornell University. She was a co-recipient of the Marr Prize at ICCV 2013.
Yejin Choi is an adjunct professor in the department of linguistics, an associate professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and an affiliate of the Center for Statistics and Social Sciences. She works at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence as a senior research manager as well. She was listed among IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016, co-winner of the Marr Prize (best paper award) at ICCV 2013, and the 2018 recipient of the Borg Early Career Award (BECA). She earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University in Korea and a doctorate in computer science from Cornell University, where Prof. Claire Cardie served as her adviser.
2023
Yejin Choi, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington and a 2022 MacArthur “genius” grantee, co-wrote an award-winning paper last year that examined the ability of a variety of cutting-edge AI systems to predict the winners of several New Yorker caption contests and provide an explanation for why the best caption is funny. Choi claims that, for the time being at least, cartoon caption writers’ careers are secure.
The numerous ways that human intelligence varies from that of AIs like ChatGPT are the main subject of Choi’s study. “A calculator may perform calculations more quickly and accurately than I can, but that doesn’t imply that it is smarter than any of us in other areas.”
AI2 senior director @YejinChoinka was invited to speak with @BillGates about AI, and shared her delight in the unknown. "One of the things I’m really excited about is our lack of understanding about both artificial intelligence, and human intelligence." https://t.co/rNhpYBx5Dlpic.twitter.com/YNZT8fxIDZ
I am extremely honored and excited to give a keynote at the 60th ACL today 🚀2082: An ACL Odyssey: The Dark Matter of Intelligence and Language🚀in which I will share reflections on the past ACL and weird speculations on the future, thus the retro-futuristic theme #acl2022nlp 1/N pic.twitter.com/XmKIrD7dnF
