🚨Reminder: Submissioms for the ORIGen workshop at COLM are due today!!! 🚨 CfP: origen-workshop.github.io/submissions/ OpenReview submission page: openreview.net/group?id=col...

Tejas Srinivasan@tejassrinivasan.bsky.social · last yr.

LLMs are all around us, but how can we foster reliable and accountable interactions with them?? To discuss these problems, we will host the first ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org! Submissions welcome from NLP, HCI, CogSci, and anything human-centered, due June 20 :) origen-workshop.github.io

This month, @jessezhang.bsky.social completed his PhD defense and signed to start a postdoc with @abhishekunique7.bsky.social at UW! Keep an eye on his journey :) www.jessezhang.net I'm sad to lose one of my sinistral students but glad to produce another Dr. Jesse 😛

LLMs are all around us, but how can we foster reliable and accountable interactions with them?? To discuss these problems, we will host the first ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org! Submissions welcome from NLP, HCI, CogSci, and anything human-centered, due June 20 :) origen-workshop.github.io

This! So much this!!!

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

AI can do so much more. Instead of seeing aging as a problem to sweep under the rug, we should be designing AI to facilitate meaningful connections for all.

Nothing says “I love you” like outsourcing your parents’ phone calls to a chatbot. 🙃 Social isolation in aging is real. Connection isn’t something you can automate. Why does everyone think we can just throw a chatbot at every problem? </rhetorical> www.404media.co/i-tested-the...

I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered

inTouch says on its website "Busy life? You can’t call your parent every day—but we can." My own mum said she would feel terrible if her child used it.

404media.co

Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/

I worry that concerns with "superintelligence" are being blurred with concerns around *ceding human control*. A "SuperDumb" system can create mutually assured destruction. What it takes is allowing AI systems to execute code autonomously in military operations.

Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · last yr.

AI real talk. We (humanity) are moving full speed ahead at building AI agents for war that can create a runaway missile crisis of mutually assured destruction globally. Is the option of not allowing AI agents to deploy missiles already off the table, or is that still up for discussion?

"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.

Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social · last yr.

Gavin Newsom would have put down the Bell Riots with tanks and napalm I can tell you that much

People are increasingly relying on AI assistance, but *how* they use AI advice is influenced by their trust in the AI, which the AI is typically blind to. What if they weren’t? We show that adapting AI assistants' behavior to user trust mitigates under- and over-reliance! arxiv.org/abs/2502.13321

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

‼️ Ever wish LLMs would just... slow down for a second? In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems. Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...

“Toward the end of the November dinner, Trump raised the matter of the lawsuit, the people said. The president signaled that the litigation had to be resolved before Zuckerberg could be “brought into the tent,” one of the people said.” They’re in the tent now. Cowards.

Jeff Horwitz@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Meta has agreed to pay Trump $25 million in damages to settle a lawsuit alleging that removing Trump from the platform was illegal. Message was that the money needed to be paid before Meta could be "in the tent." Never got around to filing an amended complaint. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

What the hell are we doing?