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.

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!

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-...

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...

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.

📢 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

Live shot of me answering email.

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!

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.

It's back online.

Still working on my letters this year.

Controlled panic.

Prompt: Draw a picture of an American family at Thanksgiving dinner.

📢 It's PhD admissions season! 🎓 The PhD admissions process is stressful! 😅 Want a behind-the-scenes look at the process? 👀✨ You have questions, we have answers. 📝🤝 Watch my Admissions AMA for @jhuclsp. https://youtu.be/YlwpIPFNXjo?si=O7n5QwGT5sQdpg7u

It's that time of the academic year.

Cool. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

@jhuclsp.bsky.social student starter pack!

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty AI advocate: the cup is only half full and we can increase the amount of water at least 10 fold in the next 5 years

Summary of notifications: 🦋 new follower 🦋 new follower 🦋 new follower 🦋 new follower ✖️Musk tweeted something ✖️Musk tweeted something ✖️Musk tweeted something ✖️Musk tweeted something These aren't helpful.

Am I the first @jhuclsp.bsky.social professor on 🦋? I’ve never been this cool in my life.

Putting together a JHU Center for Language and Speech Processing starter pack! Please reply or DM me if you're doing research at CLSP and would like to be added - I'm still trying to find out which of us are on here so far. go.bsky.app/JtWKca2

Cool work by @jhuclsp colleagues Rafael Rivera Soto and Nick Andrews on how AI-generated text carries unique stylistic fingerprints, enabling the detection and identification of specific language models. Based on ICLR paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.06712 hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/18/a...

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Started making a list of researchers working at the intersection of healthcare, language, and computation. Please help me add more people!

BOSS- Business Organizer Scheduling System

All reports are that #EMNLP2024 was fantastic. I’m sorry I missed it.

Dealing with a new social media account can be vexatious. Here I compiled a thread of resources that might be helpful to transition to Bluesky 🦋 . 🧵⬇️ Thread below

Couldn't find a machine learning for health starter pack so I made one.  DM/Reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/PJKJ8vK

Postdoc opportunities! The Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute has a new postdoc program! We’re looking for candidates across data science and AI, including science, health, medicine, the humanities, engineering, policy, and ethics. Spread the word and apply! ai.jhu.edu/postdoctoral...