“AI can revolutionize the way in which Americans engage in our democracy,” says @mdredze.bsky.social, who was part of the team that used artificial intelligence to analyze comments in the public record to determine how people feel about the federal government’s reclassification of cannabis.

Americans support cannabis rescheduling, study finds

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and UC San Diego used artificial intelligence to analyze comments in the public record.

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Most people strongly support the federal government’s reclassification of cannabis, according to a new study by @jhu.edu and @ucsandiego.bsky.social researchers including @mdredze.bsky.social and @vijay-murari.bsky.social that used AI to analyze more than 40,000 comments in the public record.

Americans support cannabis rescheduling, study finds

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and UC San Diego used artificial intelligence to analyze comments in the public record

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This NYT story about A.I. travel avatars is being treated as a novelty. “Synthetic influencers are here!” But the underlying platform architecture is the same. What’s changing is how efficiently actors can exploit it. A.I. influencers simply remove the human bottlenecks.

These Travel Influencers Don’t Want Freebies. They’re A.I.

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Fantastic talk by Hopkins Medicine's Peter Najjar at the @jhumceh.bsky.social symposium on Human + AI to redefine the standard of care in medicine. What can AI do to improve quality and safety in medicine?

Loving the “Pitch a problem” session at the Johns Hopkins Symposium on Engineering in Healthcare. Lots of animated conversations! @jhumceh.bsky.social

Congratulations again to John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science @mdredze.bsky.social on this accomplishment!

Mark Dredze named director of Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute

Dredze, a member of JHU’s faculty since 2009, has been selected to lead the university institute dedicated to harnessing the power of AI to translate data-driven discovery into real-world impact.

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Congratulations to CS faculty @mdredze.bsky.social, Jason Eisner, Peter Kazanzides, and @tom-lippincott.bsky.social on their @jhu.edu Nexus Awards! Learn more about their funded projects here: www.cs.jhu.edu/news/compute...

🚨 You are only evaluating a slice of your test-time scaling model's performance! 🚨 📈 We consider how models’ confidence in their answers changes as test-time compute increases. Reasoning longer helps models answer more confidently! 📝: arxiv.org/abs/2502.13962

Please read and share this excellent FAQ on University indirect costs by my friend @broniatowski.bsky.social He explains why these funds are essential and a critical investment for research in the United States. www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

David Broniatowski on LinkedIn: NIH has just announced that it will save $4 billion by capping university… | 61 comments

NIH has just announced that it will save $4 billion by capping university indirect costs on federal grants. Will this actually save money? Bottom line: No. It… | 61 comments on LinkedIn

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I know I can improve my ARR reviews, but there really is no need for name calling. 😁

Helpful Insightful Probing Valuable Thoughtful Illuminating Constructive In author feedback, these are synonyms for "we hate your review."

Do reviewers purposely write confusing reviews with typos to demonstrate that the review wasn't written by a LLM?

Golden idea for an NLP paper: a group of llamas is called a "cria herd". That would make a great name for a LLM method, model, or paper. Just remember to acknowledge me in your paper. You're welcome.

Idea for GenAI app: rewrite click bait headlines to normal headlines in the browser. Input: you’ll never guess this one company organizing the best deals of the year Output: Amazon has a modest sale on phone chargers

The ARR submission checklist is already pretty extensive, but I suggest we add an additional question: "I certify that I know the difference between \citet and \citep."

ARR: Reviews are due today. Me:

I feel seen. This is why I always access my API keys from my laptop.

Do you have any of those fortune cookies that mock academics? Sure!

Starting a new year and reflecting on how lucky I am to work at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social with amazing people @jhucompsci.bsky.social @jhuclsp.bsky.social. I was promoted to full professor in 2023, and my students presented me with this amazing poster of current and former PhD students.

Listen to @karaswisher.bsky.social's new podcast where she interviews @ruchowdh.bsky.social, @ghadfield.bsky.social and me about AI Ethics and Safety. The podcast was recorded before a live audience at @jhu.edu Bloomberg Center. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

AI Ethics and Safety — A Contradiction in Terms?

Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 01/02/2025 · 53m

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Paper at #ML42024! Clinical QA can help doctors find critical information in patient records. But where do we get training data for these systems? Generating this data from an LLM is hard. 🧵

Are Clinical T5 Models Better for Clinical Text? That's the question we asked in our #ML4H2024 paper. Turns out clinical models may not be worth it. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2412.05845

Current feeling.

Announcement #1: our call for papers is up! 🎉 colmweb.org/cfp.html And excited to announce the COLM 2025 program chairs @yoavartzi.com @eunsol.bsky.social @ranjaykrishna.bsky.social and @adtraghunathan.bsky.social

Accurate.

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2y ago

Academics finishing the semester: FINALLY I can start working on my work!

📢 Want to host MASC 2025? The 12th Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium is a one day event bringing together students, faculty and researchers from universities and industry in the Mid-Atlantic. Please submit this very short form if you are interested in hosting! Deadline January 6th. #MASC2025

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ICYMI: the UMD LSC is looking for a postdoctoral fellow with an interdisciplinary research agenda in language sciences. languagescience.umd.edu/news/job-opp... If your interests connect to #NLP research that helps people communicate across languages, please reach out!

UMD Language Science Center@umd-lsc.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're hiring a Language Science postdoc as part of our inaugural Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars! Click the link in bio to apply #UniversityofMaryland

Congratulations to my JHU CS @jhuclsp colleague Philipp Koehn on being elected an ACL fellow! www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...

Me sitting in the back listening to conference talks and muttering to myself.