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'''Sara Hooker''' is a computer scientist who works in the field of [[artificial intelligence]] (AI).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tiku |first=Nitasha |date=2023-10-25 |title=AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/25/data-provenance/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-01 |title=The Hardware Lottery – Communications of the ACM |url=https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-hardware-lottery/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |language=en-US}}</ref> Known for her work on model efficiency at scale, large language models and areas of research on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Sharon |date=2024-02-13 |title=Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/cohere-for-ai-launches-open-source-llm-for-101-languages/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-11-19 |title=AI chatbots fall short in dozens of languages. A non-profit project aims to fix that |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ai-chatbots-fall-short-in-dozens-of-languages-a-non-profit-project/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New AI polyglot launched to help fill massive language gap in field |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/02/13/open-source-ai-languages?_gl=1*99i94o*_gcl_au*MTkzMjUwNjA2MC4xNzA3OTYwNzc3 |website=axios}}</ref> As a VP of Research at Cohere, she launched the Cohere For AI scholars program to increase entry points into AI research. In 2023, she was listed as one of AIs top 13 innovators by [[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=13 top A.I. innovators shaping how the tech will impact our lives |url=https://fortune.com/europe/2023/06/13/meet-top-ai-innovators-impact-on-business-society-chatgpt-deepmind-stability/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=Fortune Europe |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, she was recognized as one of TIME100 Most Influential People in AI.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pillay |first=Tharin |date=2024-09-05 |title=TIME100 AI 2024: Sara Hooker |url=https://time.com/7012793/sara-hooker/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=TIME |language=en}}</ref>
'''Sara Hooker''' is a computer scientist who works in the field of [[artificial intelligence]] (AI).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tiku |first=Nitasha |date=2023-10-25 |title=AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/25/data-provenance/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-01 |title=The Hardware Lottery – Communications of the ACM |url=https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-hardware-lottery/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |language=en-US}}</ref> She is known for her work on model efficiency at scale, large language models and areas of research on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Sharon |date=2024-02-13 |title=Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/cohere-for-ai-launches-open-source-llm-for-101-languages/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-11-19 |title=AI chatbots fall short in dozens of languages. A non-profit project aims to fix that |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ai-chatbots-fall-short-in-dozens-of-languages-a-non-profit-project/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New AI polyglot launched to help fill massive language gap in field |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/02/13/open-source-ai-languages?_gl=1*99i94o*_gcl_au*MTkzMjUwNjA2MC4xNzA3OTYwNzc3 |website=axios}}</ref> As VP of Research at [[Cohere]], she launched the Cohere For AI scholars program.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} In 2023, she was listed as one of AI's top 13 innovators by [[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=13 top A.I. innovators shaping how the tech will impact our lives |url=https://fortune.com/europe/2023/06/13/meet-top-ai-innovators-impact-on-business-society-chatgpt-deepmind-stability/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=Fortune Europe |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, she was in TIME's 2024 list of the most influential people in AI.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pillay |first=Tharin |date=2024-09-05 |title=TIME100 AI 2024: Sara Hooker |url=https://time.com/7012793/sara-hooker/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=TIME |language=en}}</ref>


Sara Hooker is on Kaggle's ML Advisory Research Board and the [[World Economic Forum]] council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=sara-hooker |url=https://www.weforum.org/people/sara-hooker/ |website=World Economic Forum}}</ref> She's also a member of the MLC research group, which has a focus on making participation in machine learning research more accessible.
Sara Hooker is on [[Kaggle]]'s ML Advisory Research Board and the [[World Economic Forum]] council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=sara-hooker |url=https://www.weforum.org/people/sara-hooker/ |website=World Economic Forum}}</ref> She is also a member of the MLC research group.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}


== Early life and Education ==
== Early life and Education ==
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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hooker |first=Sara |date=2018-10-30 |title=Slow Learning. |url=https://medium.com/@sarahooker/slow-learning-d9463f6a800b |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hooker |first=Sara |date=2018-10-30 |title=Slow Learning. |url=https://medium.com/@sarahooker/slow-learning-d9463f6a800b |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=November 2024}}


Sara Hooker is a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in Computer Science from the [[Mila (research institute)|Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute]],{{cn|date=July 2024}} 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 [[Waterford Kamhlaba|United World College Waterford Kamhlaba]].
Hooker is a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in Computer Science, a title she got from the [[Mila (research institute)|Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute]],{{cn|date=July 2024}} has a bachelor's from [[Carleton College]] with a [[dual major]] in Economics and International Relations, and an Economics degree from the [[Fundação Getulio Vargas]]. She also has an International Baccalaureate in IB Diploma from the [[Waterford Kamhlaba|Waterford Kamhlaba United World College]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}


== Career ==
== Career ==
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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Sharon |date=2022-06-14 |title=Google Brain alum to helm new nonprofit AI research lab |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-brain-alum-to-helm-new-nonprofit-ai-research-lab/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2014, she founded Delta Analytics, which develops technical capacity for non-profits.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Sharon |date=2022-06-14 |title=Google Brain alum to helm new nonprofit AI research lab |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-brain-alum-to-helm-new-nonprofit-ai-research-lab/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref>


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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kuuire |first=Joseph-Albert |date=2019-04-11 |title=Google Officially Opens Its AI Research Centre In Accra |url=https://techlabari.com/google-officially-opens-its-ai-research-centre-in-accra/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Tech Labari |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Sharon |date=2022-08-03 |title=How analog AI hardware may one day reduce costs and carbon emissions |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-analog-ai-hardware-may-one-day-reduce-costs-and-carbon-emissions/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2017, Sara Hooker joined [[Google Brain]] as a research scientist who worked on [[interpretability]] and efficiency at scale. She was part of the original research team involved in founding Google's Ghana engineering office.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kuuire |first=Joseph-Albert |date=2019-04-11 |title=Google Officially Opens Its AI Research Centre In Accra |url=https://techlabari.com/google-officially-opens-its-ai-research-centre-in-accra/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Tech Labari |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Sharon |date=2022-08-03 |title=How analog AI hardware may one day reduce costs and carbon emissions |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-analog-ai-hardware-may-one-day-reduce-costs-and-carbon-emissions/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref>


In April 2022, Sara joined start-up [[Cohere]] to lead Cohere For AI.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The push to make big AI small |url=https://www.axios.com/2023/12/08/ai-llm-distillation-research |website=axios}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=This nonprofit thinks it knows how to solve the A.I. talent shortage |url=https://fortune.com/2022/09/27/cohere-sara-hooker-expand-ai-geographic-dviersity-to-solve-ai-talent-shortage/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Fortune |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lima-Strong |first=Cristiano |date=2024-02-13 |title=Analysis {{!}} FTC's Bedoya says laws to keep teens off social media won't work |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/13/ftcs-bedoya-says-laws-keep-teens-off-social-media-wont-work/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-11 |title=Announcing the Cohere For AI Research Grant Program |url=https://txt.cohere.com/c4ai-research-grants/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Context by Cohere |language=en}}</ref>
In April 2022, Sara joined start-up [[Cohere]] to lead Cohere For AI.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The push to make big AI small |url=https://www.axios.com/2023/12/08/ai-llm-distillation-research |website=axios}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=This nonprofit thinks it knows how to solve the A.I. talent shortage |url=https://fortune.com/2022/09/27/cohere-sara-hooker-expand-ai-geographic-dviersity-to-solve-ai-talent-shortage/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Fortune |language=en}}</ref> The lab has since released projects, such as Aya, which aim to increase multilingual coverage.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lima-Strong |first=Cristiano |date=2024-02-13 |title=Analysis {{!}} FTC's Bedoya says laws to keep teens off social media won't work |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/13/ftcs-bedoya-says-laws-keep-teens-off-social-media-wont-work/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Sara also launched a grant program to aim to bridge the resource gap.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-11 |title=Announcing the Cohere For AI Research Grant Program |url=https://txt.cohere.com/c4ai-research-grants/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Context by Cohere |language=en}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=November 2024}}


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Sara Hooker
Born
Dublin, Ireland
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Institutions

Sara Hooker is a computer scientist who works in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).[1][2] She is 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] As VP of Research at Cohere, she launched the Cohere For AI scholars program.[citation needed] In 2023, she was listed as one of AI's top 13 innovators by Fortune.[6] In 2024, she was in TIME's 2024 list of the most influential people in AI.[7]

Sara Hooker is on Kaggle's ML Advisory Research Board and the World Economic Forum council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence.[8] She is also a member of the MLC research group.[citation needed]

Early life and Education

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.[9][better source needed]

Hooker is a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, a title she got from the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute,[citation needed] has a bachelor's from Carleton College with a dual major in Economics and International Relations, and an Economics degree from the Fundação Getulio Vargas. She also has an International Baccalaureate in IB Diploma from the Waterford Kamhlaba United World College.[citation needed]

Career

In 2014, she founded Delta Analytics, which develops technical capacity for non-profits.[10]

In 2017, Sara Hooker joined Google Brain as a research scientist who worked on interpretability and efficiency at scale. She was part of the original research team involved in founding Google's Ghana engineering office.[11][12]

In April 2022, Sara joined start-up Cohere to lead Cohere For AI.[13][14] The lab has since released projects, such as Aya, which aim to increase multilingual coverage.[15] Sara also launched a grant program to aim to bridge the resource gap.[16][failed verification]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "The Hardware Lottery – Communications of the ACM". 2021-12-01. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  3. ^ Goldman, Sharon (2024-02-13). "Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "New AI polyglot launched to help fill massive language gap in field". axios.
  6. ^ "13 top A.I. innovators shaping how the tech will impact our lives". Fortune Europe. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  7. ^ Pillay, Tharin (2024-09-05). "TIME100 AI 2024: Sara Hooker". TIME. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  8. ^ "sara-hooker". World Economic Forum.
  9. ^ Hooker, Sara (2018-10-30). "Slow Learning". Medium. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  10. ^ Goldman, Sharon (2022-06-14). "Google Brain alum to helm new nonprofit AI research lab". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  11. ^ Kuuire, Joseph-Albert (2019-04-11). "Google Officially Opens Its AI Research Centre In Accra". Tech Labari. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  12. ^ Goldman, Sharon (2022-08-03). "How analog AI hardware may one day reduce costs and carbon emissions". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  13. ^ "The push to make big AI small". axios.
  14. ^ "This nonprofit thinks it knows how to solve the A.I. talent shortage". Fortune. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ "Announcing the Cohere For AI Research Grant Program". Context by Cohere. 2023-07-11. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
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