Sophie Wu's website:)

A lil' bit about me!

I'm an M.A. student in Digital Humanities at McGill researching how language data can be used to study human culture -- my dinner party description of what I do is "using AI to study storytelling". This is important for better understanding...

Human culture: We have more data than ever before on all the rich variations and patterns of human life - but to use this resource to understand ourselves and others better, we need frameworks to empirically test cultural theories meaningfully with computational tools. A lot of my work involves developing/applying these frameworks!
How computers "think": Comparing human and language model outputs on culturally grounded tasks can teach us a lot about model behavior. So through using AI to study culture, we learn a lot about AI itself too!

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Community engagement!

I strongly believe that if you are passionate about something, you have a responsibility engage meaningfully with its surrounding communities. Some of my current projects motivated by this include...

Leading a pilot exploratory AI research fellowship for high schoolers with Encode Canada
Running a Mandarin Conversation Club (join for great language practice + food!)
Community programming and communications for Building 21 (McGill University's interdisciplinary idea lab)

Always open to chatting about any of the above! My e-mail is "sophie(.)wu(@)mail(.)mcgill(.)ca"!