Abstracts: September 22, 2023

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In this episode, Dr. Xing Xie, a Senior Principal Research Manager of Microsoft Research Asia joins host Dr. Gretchen Huizinga to discuss “Psychometrics for Evaluating General-Purpose AI.” As AI capabilities move from task specific to more general purpose, the paper explores psychometrics, a subfield of psychology, as an alternative to traditional methods for evaluating model performance and for supporting consistent and reliable systems.