Dr. Sarah Hooker
Cohere For AI
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The Hardware Lottery: Algorithmic Stagnation and Hardware Alignment
Authored the CACM article formalizing the 'hardware lottery', demonstrating how deep learning architectures win not on fundamental superiority but on whether they fit contemporary GPU and accelerator architectures.
Qualitative and historical systems critique; guiding architectural paradigms rather than releasing a standalone model.
Aya: An Open Multilingual Foundation Model and Evaluation Dataset for 101 Languages
Directed the global Aya research collaboration involving 3,000+ researchers across 119 countries to produce instruction datasets and state-of-the-art open-weights multilingual foundation models for underrepresented languages.
Extremely low-resource languages with minimal digital footprint require specialized human annotation to avoid hallucination.