Vijay V.
vijaytarian.bsky.social
Vijay V.
@vijaytarian.bsky.social
PhD student at CMU. I do research on applied NLP ("alignment", "synthetic data"). he/him
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Maybe vilifying China & Chinese people, and increasing visa hassles & investigations aren’t smart moves for keeping the US lead in AI—given the number of engineers trained in China vs US?

“Many Chinese students are not that interested in full-time jobs in the US.”

restofworld.org/2025/china-a...
DeepSeek’s rise shows why China’s top AI talent is skipping Silicon Valley
Young Chinese engineers focus on homegrown innovation, drawn by fewer visa hurdles and the chance to build a future on their own terms.
restofworld.org
February 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Are you a pre-doctoral student interested in language technologies, especially focusing on safe, fair and inclusive AI? Our Summer 2025 Language Technology for All Internship could be a great fit. See the link below for more info, and to apply:
lti.cs.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
CMU LTI Language Technology for All Internship 2025 - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
The LTI is currently seeking applicants for the summer 2025 Language Technology for All Internship
lti.cs.cmu.edu
January 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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When I started on ARL project that funds my PhD, the thing we were supposed to build was a "MaterialsGPT".

What is a MaterialsGPT? Where does that idea come from? I got to spend a lot of time thinking about that second question with @davidthewid.bsky.social and Lucy Suchman (!) working on this:
December 17, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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📢 NEW Paper!

@siree.sh, Lucy Suchman, and I examine a corpus of 7,000 US Military grant solicitations to ask what the world’s largest military wants with to do with AI, by looking at what it seeks to fund. #STS

📄: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17840

We find…
December 9, 2024 at 2:18 PM