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While there are cases where "AI" (however you define that) can be helpful for things like human flourishing and well-being, the emphasis on scale as necessary for bringing them to fruition is inherently totalizing & makes its integration with the machinery of destruction seem inevitable

Cool new benchmark and dataset to appear at LREC 2026. See you in Palma! #NLP #AI #LLMs

Me 2022: I'm not trying to build Skynet. Me 2026: I'm trying to stop the people (not me) building Skynet.

Impeccable timing on this one

The 4yo (for context, in her Disney Princess era) is watching the Winter Olympics. Does it inspire her to do figure skating? No, more like the luge, the skeleton, and ski jumping ⛷️ 💀

Unsaid here: how many technical researchers and academics are being fundamentally chickenshit about this because they (we) fear losing access to data and/or models.

I can't be the only one wondering by @realblucifer.bsky.social is suddenly posting in Ge'ez

The most annoying thing about Peppa Pig is how it tries to convince you that the English can possibly be good people

Am I a bad person for telling the 4yo she can't play with her Paw Patrol toy because it's stuck in traffic?

New story by me in @quantamagazine.bsky.social unpacking the provocatively named "Platonic representation hypothesis." In what sense, and to what degree, are different AI models are growing more similar?

In mid-2019 in Copenhagen I met a Ukrainian immigrant to Denmark who was weirdly pro-Trump. Really wonder what she's thinking now.

As tech companies try to sell us on the idea that life itself is an inconvenience, "an orientation toward friction is really the only defense we have against the life-annihilating suction of technologies of escape," @kjezermorton.bsky.social writes. www.thecut.com/article/broo...

Very cool that it is now 2003 and I can be 16 again instead of 39

Who is the target audience for the cartoon Progressive Insurance commercials on Disney Jr+?

The 4yo is doing a good job asking for consent before touching. Unfortunately her way of asking is uniformly "can I touch your body?"

Had a great time at #NeurIPS2025 but if it's okay now I'd like to not hear about #AI for at least six weeks

Excited 2 learn about A1 technology #NeurIPS2025

Today I learned of the existence of the journal Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems. Read the acronym and then wonder WTF they were thinking.

At @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego this week? Come watch us rant in front of an enormous poster Thursday 12/4 from 11-2 PST, station #2010 Poster link: tinyurl.com/bxcdrwpd #AI #LLMs #NLP

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

You know how you watch a video and you can sort of smell it and the smell is so bad you kind of taste it in the back of your mouth? Further, #LLMs must be destroyed

Not sure what's worse: people who don't understand how #LLMs work trying to build #AI systems, or people who do

I'll be the first to criticize our society's overinvestment in massive piles of linear algebra but this is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read

War were declared #CSU #FortCollins #Colorado

Happy to have our paper "Learning 'Partner-Aware' Collaborators in Multi-Party Collaborations" appearing at #NeurIPS2025 this year! #LLMs are bad collaborators but having them generate and train over counterfactual scenarios can make them better #NLP #AI

A Hawaiian/Jamaican/Japanese fusion place called Poké, Mon

And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who helped make the first ORIGen workshop a success! @andreasvlachos.bsky.social @malihealikhani.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social #COLM2025 #AI #NLP #LLMs

The dilemma of French Canada is whether I can get away with putting on my "I'm not American" accent

Sad that #COLM2025 is going to be over? Don't be! The ORIGen workshop starts tomorrow at 9:00am in room 518A of Palais des Congrès #AI #NLP #LLMs

I'm back in the States, can we still get Tylenol here?

We are hiring! The Dept. of Computer Science at Colorado State University will be hiring 1 Tenure Track Assistant Professor in AI to start in fall 2026. Please visit jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166... for details. CSU is an EO employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates.

We are excited to welcome @malihealikhani.bsky.social to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for her keynote talk "Theory of Mind in Generative Models: From Uncertainty to Shared Meaning"! We look forward to this exciting speaker lineup in Montreal next month! #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

@colorado.gov One reason I moved to Colorado is that it's like New Mexico with inferior green chile and better everything else. Your move

Genuinely think that no one is suffering more in the era of AI than guys named Al

Bluesky memory-holed my repost of that @theonion.com Charlie Kirk article. Clearly looking out for me.

We are excited to welcome Bertram F. Malle of Brown University to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Could Generative Language Models Have Moral Trustworthiness?" #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

We are excited to welcome @andreasvlachos.bsky.social to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Toward Constructive Conversations"! #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

1.36 year error? I can get you down to the day just by knowing your birthdate, and no DNA. If you give me a few minutes I don't even need a calculator.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

We are excited to welcome @qveraliao.bsky.social to the ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org for her invited talk "Facilitating Appropriate Reliance on AI: Lessons from HCI Research"! October 10 at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal!

Colorado's delayed implementation of its AI Act shows how state govts struggle to regulate amid pressures from a "power-hungry federal government and a tech industry that insists that all meaningful regulations are a threat,” D&S’s @serena124.bsky.social‬ writes. www.techpolicy.press/in-delaying-...

Pros And Cons Of Using AI For Schoolwork https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-using-ai-for-schoolwork/

Hereafter answering with "is that a sex thing?" every time anyone asks me about AI #AI #NLP #LLMs

The draft programme and list of accepted papers at ORIGen 2025 @ @colmweb.org is now available! We look forward to an excellent workshop in October! #AI #NLP #LLMs

LLMs aren't as interesting, cool, or mysterious as you think and you should probably be using them less.

What I say: I research how human cognition changes during interactions with AI systems. What I mean: ChatGPT is making the kids stupid and you all know it

If you are at #ACL2025 come check out our poster for "Frictional Agent Alignment Framework" tomorrow at 4 pm! A new take on LLM alignment for deliberation and collaboration—poster currently being used as a blanket for my 4yo daughter who is supposed to be napping but isn't #NLP

Reposting this since a number of people lately said they found it helpful. Good luck on the job market, everyone!

The ORIGen workshop @colmweb.org is accepting late-breaking submissions until July 14!