Co-founders Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on 20 years of the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop, discussing its origins, their parallel careers in responsible AI, and the future challenges of evaluating generative AI and fostering critical thought.
Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach, co-founders of the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop, reflect on their intersecting careers, the founding and evolution of WiML over 20 years, and their influential research in responsible AI, from interpretability and fairness to the current challenges in generative AI.
Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face, details the LeRobot project, aiming to replicate the success of Transformers in the robotics domain. He discusses the vision of creating a massive open-source community, tackling data scarcity, and the future of physical AI hardware, arguing that we are at a key inflection point for robotics similar to where LLMs were years ago.