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Amazing folks coming to talk at #MSLD2024—and these are just the keynotes! The full schedule is coming soon; late registration is still open too (and still free!) so come join us in Ann Arbor in just a few weeks! forms.gle/yywVEUHqnNZD9u…

Delighted to have been a part of this program, and looking forward to working with next year's cohort of students!

This project was a ton of fun with a great group of folks, aimed at getting a better measurement of whether LLMs actually have human-like personalities (spoiler: no) and turned into a really interesting modeling question. Lechen Zhang's thread has a nice summary of the highlights

We are only 5 days out of the NLP and CSS workshop and I am in-route to Mexico City 🇲🇽 #naacl2024! Excited for the invited talks from Naoki Egami, Helena Gómez Adorno, and Maria Antoniak, and learning from the rest of our accepted authors! Program: sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss…

Somehow in everything I had previously learned about Aztec culture, I failed to make note of face knives (tecpatl)

Coincidentally timed with #NAACL theverge.com/2024/6/18/2418…

Our Technology, AI, Society, & Culture (TASC) team at Google Research (Google AI) has an opening for a Visiting Researcher position in the Society Centered AI & ML org, starting 2025. Our topic of research is on culturally aware AI. Here's some of our recent work on this topic:

UMSI is hiring in archives this year (tenure track), looking for someone with expertise in digital archives and digital curation. Deadline Dec 1st!

I'm looking for PhD students to join me in fall 2025 School of Information! I’m particularly focused this cycle on research related to AI regulation, government use of algorithms, and methods for anticipating the impacts of AI systems. The full program details are here: si.umich.edu/programs/phd-i…

Applying to the @UMSI PhD program? Participate in the UMSI PhD Application Feedback Program—led by current Ph.D. students at UMSI who want to support applicants from underrepresented backgrounds in higher ed. 📅 Materials accepted until Nov 11 🔗 Link: bit.ly/UMSI-Review-20…

Can laws be translated into software? In a new study, Nel Escher Jeffrey Bilik Nikola Banovic and I show that the translation process is rife with misunderstandings, leading to errors and policy distortions in legal software. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Byte-sized breakthrough: patches scale better than tokens for fixed inference FLOPs. We finally have a model that can see the e’s in blueberries. Next step: train an LLM with near-zero preprocessing and get a more accurate generative compression of the internet than ever before

ACLRollingReview and the EMNLP PCs are seeking input on the current state of reviewing for *CL conferences. We would love to get your feedback on the current process and how it could be improved. To contribute your ideas and opinions, please follow this link! forms.office.com/r/P68uvwXYqf

EMNLP is currently seeking additional Senior Area Chairs (SACs). If you would like to help, please fill out this form, and share the link with others! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…