Katelyn Mei
133 posts
@MeiKatelyn
PhDing in Information Science @UW| Human-AI interaction |psychology & mathematics @Middlebury’22
LLMs will transform e-commerce in ways that consumer protection is unprepared for! Our new preprint finds that conversational AI can strongly steer consumer choices: sponsored product selection nearly tripled relative to traditional placement (N=2012). (link below)
Introducing Ai2 Open Coding Agents—starting with SERA, our first-ever coding models. Fast, accessible agents (8B–32B) that adapt to any repo, including private codebases. Train a powerful specialized agent for as little as ~$400, & it works with Claude Code out of the box. 🧵
Since I started working on AI research, I've deeply cared about how AI can augment and empower people. It was often the case that final, real-world model usage was an afterthought after development, rather than something deeply integrated in the model training and evaluation. But as models have grown increasingly powerful, we're seeing lots of technical advances and fascinating research throughout the model dev stack--they are easier to use, and start to become collaborative. It’s an extraordinary time to work on human AI collaboration: it’s never been simpler to build practically useful AI applications and deliver to a large pool of users; but it’s also a time of doubt and questions: what is the role of research/academia in this direction, and what to work on next? It turned out these thoughts are shared among us – when I started to talk to @EchoShao8899 last year, we immediately connected. We wanted to reflect this field holistically to understand what are the critical challenges and how to advance in this direction. Together with @michaelryan207 , we decided to start this journey and try out something that we'd never done before — starting a podcast — which, retrospectively, was such a cool decision that we made that afternoon walking on the Stanford campus. We’ve had a lot of interesting discussions and thoughts in the past few months, and I am genuinely impressed by how much our three-person crew can put together in such a short time. We can’t wait to share what we have with y’all! As we wrote in the opening script, this is a journey to find the answers. The destination matters, but so does the journey. Please join us and let's explore together :)
