New paper in press at Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts w/ @aaronhertzmann.com interrogating the information bottlenecks that make the drawing of objects & scenes from observation so difficult. This was a really fun paper to write together--we hope it'll be a fun read, too!
Nice spatial study of London that goes a level deeper than what principal component analysis reveals
Nice Commentary on HCI Education in the Jan issue of Interactions Magazine that mentions our Gulf of Envisoning Work with Maneesh @magrawala.bsky.social Chris
Pondoc, Roy Pea, and Colleen Seifert: interactions.acm.org/archive/view...
👍Yes. Would love to discuss.
I see the relationship to Annihilation, but I could never really connect with that one for some reason.
New demo! youtu.be/rCPLSr79aGg Use Cartokit to map your data using familiar GUI-style interactions—and let Cartokit write the equivalent code for you. Try it out at alpha.cartokit.dev.
Didn't expect to run into Chernoff faces in a scifi book about the nature of consciousness and a world where transhumans live alongside vampires.
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that is also why i asked about comfyui,regional prompting and controlnet becuse in relation to 1 those and things like img2img do allow for more expression and control then there are project like that by chicano artist coco which are more in depth www.youtube.com/watch?v=envM...
Excited to get back to UC Berkeley this Wed Nov 19.
I'll be speaking in the EECS colloquium 4-5pm Soda Hall with a talk entitled: Making is Decision Making
Abstract and directions are at this link:
events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/3...
Never for 106X. I was a student until 2002 and a prof at Stanford starting in 2015.
MoVer is a Motion Verification DSL that can check if an LLM-generated motion graphics animation match your text prompts!
@jiajuma.bsky.social presented this work at SIGGRAPH 2025 making it easier for designers to specify and verify complex animations.
Paper, code and dataset: mover-dsl.github.io
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Oof -- still learning to post proper links on Bluesky.
Teaser for Generating Past and Futures of Digital Painting Processes Paper.
Artists often explore designs, undoing and redoing parts of a sketch to try different ideas. Lvmin Zhang's PaintsAlter (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025) is a tool designed to facilitate such exploration
Updated link: lllyasviel.github.io/paints_alter...
w/ Chuan Yan, Yuwei Guo and Jinbo Xing
Generating alternative futures and pasts for digital drawing processes.
Artists often explore possible designs, undoing and redoing parts of a sketch to try different ideas. Lvmin Zhang's PaintsAlter (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025) is a tool designed to facilitate such exploration
Paper and code: lllyasviel.github.io/paints_alter...
w/ Chuan Yan, Yuwei Geo and Jinbo Xing
If you need to segment sketches into objects, Mia Tang has the tool for you. Enables re-composing the sketch after drawing. She presented her work on InkLayer at SIGGRAPH 2025.
Code, data and paper are here: inklayer.github.io
w/ @yaelvinker.bsky.social Chuan Yan, Lvmin Zhang
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Was recently introduced to Brian Marick's Oddly Influenced podcast. It's an amazing mix of ideas connecting software engineering, cognitive psychology and history of science.
Highly recommended! Has significantly extended my to-read list.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Looking forward to this workshop!
This is a good article and I completely agree with its argument for comprehensible research.
For context, AlphaFold is great, but is not a magic wand for making new drugs. (But Hassabis's latest claims go far beyond the hype that accompanied AlphaFold at the time.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
The AI for Content Creation workshop is kicking off today at #CVPR2025 - Grand Ballroom A1 - @magrawala.bsky.social Kai Zhang (Adobe), Charles Herrmann (Google), Mark Boss (Stability AI), Yutong Bai (UC Berkeley), Cherry Zhao (Adobe), Ishan Misra (Meta) and @jonbarron.bsky.social ! See you soon!
At CVPR in Nashville for the Workshop on AI for Content Creation. I'll be speaking at 9am tomorrow 6/12.
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There’s still time! If you are in Toronto I’d love to see you
Join DSI and @uoftmscac.bsky.social for an upcoming #DataSciencesSpeakerSeries talk: "Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces" w/ Prof. @magrawala.bsky.social from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
🗓️Friday, April 14
🔗Info & reg: datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m...
What will be the linchpin for AI dominance?
Read our NSF/OSTP recommendations written with Goodfire's Tom McGrath tommcgrath.github.io, Transluce's Sarah Schwettmann cogconfluence.com, MIT's Dylan Hadfield-Menell @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social
TLDR; Dominance comes from **interpretability** 🧵 ↘️
Apr 19: I'll present Beyond Unpredictable Black Boxes: Designing Generative AI For Iterative Refinement for the Computational Visual Media Conference 2025 and the AMC AI Film Festival 2025 in Hong Kong.
iccvm.org/2025/index.htm
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Looking forward to giving a connected pair of upcoming talks!
Apr 14: I'll present Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces for the Data Science Institute in Toronto
datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m...
