Don’t panic! But do share and comment - I’m interested to hear what people think of this one https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/ai-systems-out-persuade-expert-humans

AI systems out-persuade expert humans. Panic?

Quick review of a compelling new report

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✈️ Proud to welcome AEGEAN back as Platinum Sponsor & Official Air Carrier of #AthNLP26. For a third consecutive year, AEGEAN supports a more international, accessible, and connected NLP & AI community. #NLP #AI #MachineLearning #LLM

🎤 AthNLP 2026 Speaker Announcement #AthNLP2026 welcomes @dongng.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) Focus: #fairness, robustness & language variation in #NLP, with data-centered, real-world applications. 🗣️ Talk: RNN + Transformers Apply: athnlp.github.io/2026/cfp.html

🚀 This September, Athens becomes a hub for cutting-edge NLP & AI research 🇬🇷 AthNLP (Sept 2–8) brings students & researchers together for a week on NLP, ML & AI. LLMs • Multimodal AI • Modern NLP systems 📌 athnlp.github.io/2026/cfp.html #AthNLP #NLP #AI #MachineLearning #LLM

🎤 @delliott.bsky.social joins #AthNLP2026! Associate Professor and Villum Young Investigator at the University of Copenhagen, working on #multimodal #AI, visual representations of text, and multilingual language processing. 🗣️ Talk: “Vision and Language” For more: athnlp.github.io/2026/speaker...

⏳ 5 days left to apply for AthNLP 2026! 📌 athnlp.github.io/2026/cfp.html Join a week of #NLP, #AI & Machine Learning in Athens 🇬🇷 (2–8 Sept) LLMs • Multimodal AI • Deep Learning • Speech Tech 📌 Deadline: May 31 Don’t miss out! #AthNLP2026 #MachineLearning #LLM

📢 Call for Participation – AthNLP 2026 #AthNLP26 (Sept 2–8, 2026, Athens 🇬🇷) is now open for applications! A summer school on #NLP, #AI, #LLMs & Multimodal #ML. 🗓️ Deadline: May 31, 2026 📌 Apply: ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2... 📎 Info: athnlp.github.io/2026/ Stay tuned for speakers & updates 👀

Excited that our ICML 2026 workshop Statistical Frameworks for Uncertainty in Agentic Systems got accepted 🎉 @icmlconf.bsky.social #icml2026 We want to bring together people thinking about uncertainty and agentic systems.

Results for the shared task now publicly available (huggingface.co/spaces/FEVER...) Lot's of progress compared to our baseline, a lot left to do! Reminder to submit your #FactChecking papers to the #EACL2026 @FEVERworkshop by 19/12 here: openreview.net/group?id=eac...

Andreas Vlachos@andreasvlachos.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to announce the 9th @FEVERworkshop collocated with #EACL2026 in Morocco: fever.ai/index.html with a new shared task on #factchecking image-text claims with evidence from the web using the AVerImaTeC dataset: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17978 Deadline 2nd of December! And...

🧭 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁, 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯” - 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 Today, members of the international UKP Lab community gather in Cambridge to reflect on the Lab’s journey over the past two decades and to exchange perspectives on what lies ahead for NLP research. (1/🧵)

And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who helped make the first ORIGen workshop a success! @andreasvlachos.bsky.social @malihealikhani.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social #COLM2025 #AI #NLP #LLMs

New newsletter! Understanding participation in the X Community Notes system, via my love of data visualisation and stronger causal inference methods! #DataViz #CausalInference #FactChecking #CommunityNotes https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/community-notes-require-a-community

Excited to announce the 9th @FEVERworkshop collocated with #EACL2026 in Morocco: fever.ai/index.html with a new shared task on #factchecking image-text claims with evidence from the web using the AVerImaTeC dataset: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17978 Deadline 2nd of December! And...

We are excited to welcome @andreasvlachos.bsky.social to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Toward Constructive Conversations"! #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

Looking forward to this year's edition! With great speakers: Ryan McDonald Yulan He @vn-ml.bsky.social @antonisa.bsky.social Raquel Fernandez @annarogers.bsky.social Preslav Nakov @mohitbansal.bsky.social @eunsol.bsky.social Marie-Catherine de Marnefffe !

AthNLP - Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School@athnlp.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 10 Days Left to apply for the AthNLP - Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School! ✍ Get your applications in before June 15th! athnlp.github.io/2025/cfp.html

A string may get 17 times less probability if tokenised as two symbols (e.g., ⟨he, llo⟩) than as one (e.g., ⟨hello⟩)—by an LM trained from scratch in each situation! Our new ACL paper proposes an observational method to estimate this causal effect! Longer thread soon!

📣 Call for Participation EXTENDED to Sunday 15 June for the #AthNLP2025 ! 📍 4–10 September 2025 | NCSR Demokritos, Athens 📄 Apply & view the full program: athnlp.github.io/2025/cfp.html #NLP #AI #SummerSchool #NaturalLanguageProcessing

📢 CFP announced for the Athens #NaturalLanguageProcessing #SummerSchool! Are you passionate about #NLP and #MachineLearning? Join us in Athens 4–10 Sept at NCSR Demokritos for talks, hands-on labs & top domain experts! 📅Apply by 30 May! athnlp.github.io/2025/cfp.html #AthNLP2025 #AI

The call for papers for the 8th FEVER workshop at #ACL is out: fever.ai/workshop.html Deadline for is on May 19th! And if you have a paper already reviewed in ARR, you can commit it until June 9th!

Being in a hot air balloon in Albuquerque really makes one ponder *how to efficiently pick the best translation candidate without running expensive evaluation metrics on all of them.* See you tomorrow at 9:00 in Hall 3 #NAACL2025.

Honoured to receive this award! Tagging @pietrolesci.bsky.social and @tpimentel.bsky.social !

Cambridge Computer Science@cst.cam.ac.uk · last yr.

🎉 Congratulations @pietrolesci.bsky.social, Clara Meister, Thomas Hofmann, @andreasvlachos.bsky.social & Tiago Pimentel! They won Publication of the Year at our annual Hall of Fame awards last week for their paper on 'Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles'. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/announcing-w...

Pleased to announce the next FEVER workshop at ACL2025! Regular workshop papers (ARR and direct submissions) due 15th of April! And new shared task focusing on reproducible and efficient verification of real world claims! Check fever.ai and get keen!

The First Workshop on Large Language Model Memorization will be co-located at @aclmeeting.bsky.social in Vienna. Help us spread the word!

The First Workshop on Large Language Model Memorization (L2M2)@l2m2workshop.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 The First Workshop on Large Language Model Memorization (L2M2) will be co-located with @aclmeeting.bsky.social in Vienna 🎉 💡 L2M2 brings together researchers to explore memorization from multiple angles. Whether it's text-only LLMs or Vision-language models, we want to hear from you! 🌍

Happy to announce that our work "A Bayesian Optimization Approach to Machine Translation" was accepted to NAACL 2025! Special thanks to @ufal-cuni.bsky.social for organizing MT Marathon 2025 where I was able to team up with @maikezufle.bsky.social and @zouharvi.bsky.social ! Explainer below:

Griffin Scholars (very smart Ukrainian undergraduates from top unis) are looking for research internships in maths or CS. (many of them can't return to Ukraine for the summer). If you can host them (we may help with funding), please fill out this form: ferenchuszar1.typeform.com/to/WjXursg3