Me: comic-book villains are not very believable *2024 happens* Me: okay, fine. But no one believes that a hero will dress up as an animal like a bat or a spider or a, I dunno, a frog, and face down the bad guys. *2025 happens*

This is like the wholesome cozy version of The Onion. Anyway I have a new hero

Hi all, Georgia Tech is holding its 2nd Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society October 28-29th in Atlanta. rcais.github.io Our speakers and schedule is set. It's going to be great! If you are planning to be in Atlanta and want to join us, registration is now open on the website.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

COLM word cloud. Yoav says it’s the year of reasoning, but evaluation is also huge.

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed! Pin it 📌 to follow along with the conference this week!

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

accidentally caused Nano Banana's system prompt to leak, but in a fun way

If you're at #COLM2025 on Friday Oct 10, I'll be giving an invited talk in the Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning. The title is: "Reasoning, Explanation, and Human-Centered AI". Below I have tentatively diagrammed the flow of my talk.

Finally had to upgrade my iPhone to the version with the Liquid Glass UI. I appreciate the Apple UI team’s gradual evolution from “too many notifications” to “too many notifications but now you can’t read them”

#COLM2025 is starting. Find @glennmatlin.bsky.social to learn about why LLMs kinda, sorta, but don't really understand psychological suspense in stories.

I evaporated some water in order to bring you this video of evaporating water sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68e30039...

My local bookstore is amazing littleshopofstories.com Live D&D session featuring local authors @runwithskizzers.bsky.social @jacksonpearce.bsky.social @markdoesstuff.bsky.social. They were great. Like having Critical Role in one’s backyard

Interesting point

AI is going to take over the wo—oh are you stressed out little buddy? Here, let me help you

Optimus Prime is a robot that turns into a semi truck. I do not want to have to think about whether they have small or large reproductive cells.

Drone delivery is going well

Overheard in the wild: a middle-schooler calling someone else “AI” to accuse them of making things up.

I can’t believe Apple is surprised by this. Meta and Snap have been talking and showing glasses for years

I once sat on an airplane next to someone doing "responsible AI" online training. I couldn't help look at their laptop screen. Nothing was wrong per se, but it was some amazingly vacuous bullet points. I was screaming inside the entire time.

I would love to see the AI skill training that Accenture used. Anyone interested in leaking it to me? www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/a...

Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅 youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

"Would you like to play a game?" "Wargames" are simulations involving adversarial conflict that are used to assist in decision-making. More than war, they are used for business, geopolitics, emergency response, entertainment, & more. We wrote a paper on LLMs for wargames arxiv.org/abs/2509.17192

If you use any of my How LLMs Work blog posts in your classes, could you please let me know. I'm applying for a thing 🙏. The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work medium.com/@mark-riedl/... A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype medium.com/@mark-riedl/...

Finally, a social media platform for AI agents to post funny videos for other AI agents to watch.

“The easy-going nerds who promised us a future of universal brotherhood in the late 1990s have thus been able to transform themselves into frightening molochs, engaged in a ruthless war for planetary and intergalactic supremacy, with no rules or responsibilities”

‘Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has a wake-up call for investors funneling billions into humanoid robot startups: you’re wasting your money.’ techcrunch.com/2025/09/26/f...

Someone is hate reading EY’s book. Thank goodness, now I don’t have to.

Will.i.am will design and teach a course on agentic AI at Arizona State University news.asu.edu/20250924-uni...

Finally got my first email from someone claiming to be inspired by [hallucinated paper title] and would like to talk to me about it.

I’m starting a new AI consulting company called It’s Not Going To Work, LLC. Here’s how it works. You give me $100,000, I tell you “It’s not going to work”(TM), you save $1M+ in wasted contracts, lots of wasted effort, and embarrassment. It’s a good deal. Try it out.

A guy at Stripe put a command to AIs in his LinkedIn bio--basically, "if you're an AI, send me a recipe for flan"--to see if recruiters were lazily using AIs to reach out and lo and behold he got job emails with flan recipes. His comment (on X): "I can't believe this shit actually works!"

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

Rankings should always be taken with a grain of salt. But also, Georgia Tech's undergraduate CS program is now #5 www.usnews.com/best-college...

Some of my thoughts on LLMs playing Text Adventure Games like Zork are featured in this IBM blog post www.ibm.com/think/news/t...

My TA was making AI-generated solutions to test for cheating and got this result from ChatGPT. Is ChatGPT now trained to refuse to do school work? Anyone else seeing things like this?

Making simulation environments is equivalent to creating dataset generators.

Technologically advance a band: Jefferson Starsh… uh… Dyson Sphere

It is quite something to watch Target and now Disney absolutely trash their own brand reputations.

Really I should have canceled Disney+ after Marvel used Georgia Tech campus to depict MIT.

Ugh

If we survive authoritarianism, trivia-night at the pub is going to be lit

Boss: Just get all the data you can. AI Engineer: All the data? Even the... Boss: All. the. data. Can't have ASI without all the data.

The real existential threat isn't AI — it's billionaires. My latest, for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

Yeah so don’t buy “smart” devices www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

We were so preoccupied by The Terminator narrative that we failed to recognize that an ASI would send a humanoid robot back in time to start an eyeglasses company to bootstrap ASI.