Nilou Salehi
@nilou.bsky.social
hci+ai co-founder/co-ceo @Across AI prof @UC Berkeley gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom 👩🏻🏫 niloufar.org 👩🏻💻 across.ai | https://bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.social
Hi friends! Let me know if you'd like to catch up in/around #neurips2024
After selling his startup to IBM, this founder wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data
After selling his startup to IBM, this founder wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data
Not everyone agrees on what an “AI agent” actually is, but they are all still the rage. At a broad level, these so-called “agents” promise to go several steps beyond a mere chatbot, making decisions and taking actions on people’s behalf. Some might help…
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Two exciting internship opportunities at @msftresearch.bsky.social in 2025!!! 🎉 With FATE in NYC: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... With STAC (and collaborators in FATE) in NYC or Redmond focusing on AI evaluation and measurement: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...
Really interesting new paper out of Stanford medicine. On a new set of previously unseen diagnoses, chatgpt scored an average of 90% + explained its reasoning. Doctors randomly assigned to use the chatbot got 76%. Those randomly assigned not to use it got 74%. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Large Language Model Influence on Diagnostic Reasoning
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the diagnostic performance of physicians with use of a large language model compared with conventional resources.
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I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
This app is finally giving early Twitter days and I'm here for it, hiii friends it's been too long 🥲
I want to create an incubator that funds atproto/bluesky experimental projects to the tune of $5k-$10k dev grants. I am sorely tempted to call it “Chemtrails”, because it seeds the ATmosphere Hit me with your best ideas!
Fairness definitions differ across groups! For white respondents, fairness = "proximity'' to assigned school. For Hispanic or Latino parents, fairness = "same rules'' for everyone. Cool work by @nilou.bsky.social + students
Nilou Salehi@nilou.bsky.social · 2y agoNew #CSCW2024 paper in which we found that people's definitions of fairness for an algorithmic distribution system (school choice) differ across socioeconomic groups. These definitions of fairness shape how fair they see the system, controlling for their own outcome. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Dunno if I’m doing this right,,, but lemme know what accounts need to be added to the #BlackExcellence Starter Pack. Journalists, Professors, Scientists, Musicians, Writers,,,
Ok here are some amazing Social Computing researchers (mostly post-phd for scope). They work on making platforms, like this one, better. go.bsky.app/869xER3
New #CSCW2024 paper in which we found that people's definitions of fairness for an algorithmic distribution system (school choice) differ across socioeconomic groups. These definitions of fairness shape how fair they see the system, controlling for their own outcome. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Definitions of Fairness Differ Across Socioeconomic Groups & Shape Perceptions of Algorithmic Decisions | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Understanding how people perceive algorithmic decision-making is remains critical, as these systems are increasingly integrated into areas such as education, healthcare, and criminal justice. These pe...
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Experiencing severe #CSCW2024 fomo, hi friends 👋🏼 Also, this is cool new by Merrie Morris "prompting considered harmful" cacm.acm.org/opinion/prom...
Prompting Considered Harmful – Communications of the ACM
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I’m at #CSCW2024, which feels like the right place to use Bluesky for the first time! I’m recruiting PhD students to UW HCDE who want to think about digital safety from a sociotechnical lens.
Many models produce outputs that are hard to verify for an end-user. Our new #emnlp2023 paper won an outstanding paper award! 🏆🎉 We show that providing a quality estimation model, can make a user better at deciding when to rely on the model. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.169...
Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont, is paralyzed from the waist down his mother says in a statement to CNN. I have verified with GoFund Me that this fundraiser has been setup by his family. Donate Here www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
People critical of celebrating Kissinger's passing should understand that in a way it's honoring him, given how much he adored death.
Henry Kissinger “was complicit in millions of deaths — and never showed remorse for his decisions.” www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-...
Henry Kissinger, America’s Most Notorious War Criminal, Dies
The titan of American foreign policy was complicit in millions of deaths — and never showed remorse for his decisions.
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The deepfake crisis for women and girls has grown tremendously. It isn’t mentioned in most AI discourse, even though it’s the primary use of deepfakes by far. Now, it is being used to victimize dozens of teen girls. The perpetrators include their male classmates www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
For teen girls victimized by ‘deepfake’ nudes, there is little recourse
The FBI has warned that technology used to create pornographic deepfake photos and videos was improving and being used for harassment and sextortion.
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FOIA documents: ICE used a tool called GOST to decide if US visa applicants' social media posts are "derogatory" to the US, as part of immigration enforcement (Joseph Cox/404 Media) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...
UW misinformation researchers will not buckle under political attacks | Opinion
As the 2024 election approaches, misinformation researchers at the University of Washington say they won't be deterred by those seeking to undermine their work.
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Loving this history of flight attendants' unions, rooted in their explicit feminism. I knew women cabin crew have been treated appallingly over the years but even I was not prepared for some of the stuff in this article.
A Union of Their Own
How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union
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BREAKING: A judge has blocked Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub's attempt to prevent an a new NYC minimum wage for delivery drivers. Now, the $18/hr rate for 60,000 New York City delivery workers can move forward.
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
