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Padhraic Smyth

@padhraicsmyth.bsky.social

ML researcher, teacher, professor, Dad, Irish, ...

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Rachit Dubey@rachitdubey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)

Sam Gershman@gershbrain.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is worth considering, but I'm skeptical. Nobody likes being criticized, and authors are likely to take it out on the criticizer. I expect that this will inflate the positivity of reviews. The "prestige" of being listed as a reviewer is currently so minimal that it's not worth the danger.

Julian Togelius@togelius.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Saving peer review from AI slop requires getting rid of anonymous submissions and reviews togelius.blogspot.com/2026/03/savi...

Serge Belongie@serge.belongie.com · 9mo ago

The problem is us, with our Paleolithic vulnerabilities, our FOMO, our susceptibility to snake oil salesmen and the ELIZA effect. Say no to anthropomorphized tech solutionism and yes to stronger human institutions, fortified by ordinary technology. (11/11)

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan@jennwv.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I cannot wait to celebrate TWENTY YEARS of #WiML at #NeurIPS in San Diego this December! 🎉🥳 Fun fact: The first #WiML was held in San Diego back in 2006! ❤️ Share your memories below, and come hang out on Dec 2! I will be there! I will be speaking! And have I mentioned I AM EXCITED?!?!?!

Women in Machine Learning (WiML)@wimlworkshop.bsky.social · 9mo ago

WiML turns 20! 🎉 For two decades, WiML has connected, inspired, and supported women around the world who are advancing the field of ML. As we celebrate this incredible milestone, we want to hear your story. 💜 ➡️ Share your reflections: shorturl.at/lxWM2 #WiML #WiML20Years #WiML20th

Aaron Clauset@aaronclauset.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Not being an AI-doomer, but having experienced in my own department over the past 7 years a steady erosion of faculty governance norms and diminished prioritization of research-oriented pedagogy, this tracks. Let faculty and faculty interests lead the way, rather than administrators/regents

Academic Publishing News@acadpubnews.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy."

Arno Solin@arnosolin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📣 Please share: We invite submissions to the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (#AISTATS 2026) and welcome paper submissions at the intersection of AI, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. [1/3]

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Will Mason@willmasonmusic.com · last yr.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last yr.

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Prithviraj "Raj" Ammanabrolu@rajammanabrolu.bsky.social · last yr.

I've heard this personally from multiple PMs at AI companies. Students are one of the biggest demographics and they need to "break in" and have even more usage to improve their metrics. Classic corporate economic incentives

Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · last yr.

AI companies in the US gave access to their systems to students for free during college exams China disabled access to AI systems during nationwide college exams www.theverge.com/news/682737/... Feel free to draw your own conclusions

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last yr.

This Senate proposal advanced by Sen Cruz would cancel new and existing State laws on any aspect of tech use including civil rights, consumer protection, privacy, fraud, safety for kids, accessibility, and more. In short, we’d lose the few laws we have that ensure responsible AI use. #killthebill

Senator Ed Markey@markey.senate.gov · last yr.

Don’t be confused: The Senate Republican AI language includes the EXACT SAME AI moratorium as the House bill. Almost word-for-word. This is a complete, 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Period.

A red circle around the AI regulation ban language reading: IN GENERAL. Except as provided in para graph (2), no eligible entity or political subdivision thereof may enforce, during the 10-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this subsection, any law or regulation of that eligible entity or a political subdivision thereof limiting, restricting, or otherwise regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems entered into interstate commerce.
A. Feder Cooper@afedercooper.bsky.social · last yr.

Llama 3.1 70B contains copies of nearly the entirety of some books. Harry Potter is just one of them. I don’t know if this means it’s an infringing copy. But the first question to answer is if it’s a copy at all/in the first place. That’s what our new results suggest: arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546

Extracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language models

Plaintiffs and defendants in copyright lawsuits over generative AI often make sweeping, opposing claims about the extent to which large language models (LLMs) have memorized plaintiffs' protected expr...

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Richard D. Morey@richarddmorey.bsky.social · last yr.

@candicemorey.bsky.social and I were just talking about this. Students, I think, are still (rightly) nervous about submitting LLM-produced work, but they are using it to summarise papers they struggle to read. And it shows in their subsequent writing. It's "just reading the abstracts", but worse.

Prof. Emily Nordmann@emilynordmann.bsky.social · last yr.

This paper makes important point that we're not talking about impact of AI on reading enough. Marking work that's full of AI is demoralising but in some ways, the threat AI poses to comprehension is bigger than the threat to what students produce... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky

ABSTRACT Generative AI (GenAI) summarisers, tools that provide concise summaries of digital texts, are increasingly marketed to higher education students as time-saving aids for engaging with complex academic materials. As their prevalence grows, so does their potential impact on students’ reading practices and learning outcomes. Through an exploratory literature review, we demonstrate a significant gap in scholarly discussion and empirical research examining the extent and effects of AI summariser use among students. We explore the marketed promises of AI summarisers, hypothesise about their likely use cases, and consider concerns surrounding their impact on students’ engagement with academic texts. Our analysis is grounded in contemporary higher education literature on digital reading practices, scaffolded learning, and the development of critical thinking skills. This paper informs policy and practice by proposing a critical research agenda that addresses key questions about the prevalence, impact, and implications of GenAI summarisers in higher education. By stimulating scholarly discussion on this emerging technology, we aim to provide a foundation for evidence-based recommendations on the responsible integration of AI summarisers in academic settings, relevant to an international audience of educators, researchers, and policymakers in higher education.
Yoshua Bengio@yoshuabengio.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto on receiving the Turing Award in recognition of their significant contributions to ML. I also stand with them: Releasing models to the public without the right technical and societal safeguards is irresponsible. www.ft.com/content/d8f8...

Turing Award winners warn over unsafe deployment of AI models

Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery

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