People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds

Theory of Mind can make LLMs better at dialogue: more strategic, goal-oriented, enabling long-horizon adaptation! In our new paper, we introduce ToMA, a dialogue lookahead training framework that enables the LLMs to generate mental states that are maximally useful for achieving dialogue goals.🧵👇

@veredshwartz.bsky.social author of ‘Lost in Automatic Translation’, explores the opportunities and pitfalls of language technologies, from automatic translation tools to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. 🤖 Read the full interview 🔗 https://cup.org/4n8ilt4

Outlook spell checker is suggesting that I write "I attached me slides" instead of "I attached my slides". #AI_fail

I just published Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers medium.com/p/are-we-exp...

"Lost in Automatic Translation" is finally out! Get it here: lostinautomatictranslation.com

*SEM 2025 final call for ARR COMMITMENTS! Final chance to commit to *SEM 2025, co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou!! ARR COMMITMENT deadline is August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked EMNLP paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc

Questions if Google Translate and ChatGPT will help us master foreign languages and better understand one another, or make language learning obsolete. Lost in Automatic Translation by @veredshwartz.bsky.social, Coming Soon cup.org/45lmrI2 #LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #AI #LLMs #ArtificalIntelligence

I'm not sure yet if I'll make it to #IJCAI2025 because of the planned Air Canada strike, but if you're attending, you can order my book with the IJCAI discount (30% off and free shipping) through mid-September: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Congratulations to Shruthi Chockkalingam, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Raymond Ng & @veredshwartz.bsky.social for receiving an Outstanding Paper Award at the Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) Workshop at the 2025 Association for Computational Linguistics Conference! #ACL2025

I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social (highly recommend!). The copyright statement in the credits explicitly mentions it's not allowed to use the book for training AI. I love it and will ask my producer to do the same 🙂

“My main concern at the moment is the widespread adoption, reliance and trust in LLMs, despite a very serious technical limitation — the hallucination problem.” @isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews "Lost in Automatic Translation" author @veredshwartz.bsky.social.

I'm using ACX to produce an audiobook (my publisher only does print and ebooks). I posted a text sample for narrators to audition. 80% of the auditions I got were from fake, AI narrators. 1/4

I just published "This book will not be used to train LLMs": lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1

Unexpected events grab human attention & push AI models beyond their training data. 🤔 How well do VLMs reason about these critical, novel scenarios? 🦢 Introducing Black Swan @ #CVPR2025 (Poster: Sun 10:30am #304) Co-lead: @sahithya.bsky.social w/ @veredshwartz.bsky.social 🔗 blackswan.cs.ubc.ca

Starting in a few minutes - we have an exciting line up of talks, posters, and a panel! Join us at room 104E. 🌍 #CVPR2025

🗓️ Save the date! It's official: The VLMs4All Workshop at #CVPR2025 will be held on June 12th! Get ready for a full day of speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware 🌐 Check out the schedule below!

Simple example for how errors can creep into our papers through LLM use: I had a statistic for 2020. I googled about the same statistic for 2023. AI overview tells me the statistic for 2023 and provides a link to support the claim. The link is to a 2023 article citing the 2020 statistic.

*SEM 2025: Direct submissions deadline is now EXTENDED to June 13, 2025! *SEM will be co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou, China. It will be a hybrid event, virtual attendance possible (more info on this will be posted later). Full CFP: starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc

I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!

*SEM 2025 final call for DIRECT SUBMISSIONS! starsem2025.github.io/cfp Direct submissions are due next week on May 30, 2025. We also accept papers via ARR commitment, due on August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked ACL paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 #NLProc #NLP