Author: John Licato, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Director of AMHR Lab, University of South Florida

I research the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing and human reasoning as the director of the Advancing Human and Machine Reasoning lab at the University of South Florida. I am also commercializing this research in an AI startup that provides a vulnerability scanner for language models. From my vantage point, I observed significant developments in the field of AI language models in 2024, both in research and the industry. Perhaps the most exciting of these are the capabilities of smaller language models, support for addressing AI hallucination, and frameworks for developing AI agents. Small AIs make a splash…