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Congratulations to @upolehsan.bsky.social, who won the Georgia Tech College of Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award. The impact of his work on human-centered explainable AI (XAI) cannot be understated.

The last chapter of Upol's dissertation also just won an Honorable Mention at CHI. #ProudAdvisor

Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents (Erin Woo/The Information)

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Why do people have to talk with the chatbot on a phone receiver when checking out? That's just weird. All this technology and there is no self-checkout?

AI runs this store. It's lied, surveilled workers and tried to hire someone in Afghanistan Andon Market, designed and managed by an AI system but staffed by two human employees, opened Friday in San Francisco.

It lies, makes obvious mistakes, pretends to have a body, and can get tricked into making bad deals www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat... (thx @glinden.bsky.social)

People at Andon Labs still sign off on major purchases.

The high-end real-estate was pre-acquired by Andon Labs.

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs We signed a 3 year lease and gave it to an AI

Can an AI run a retail store with a 3-year lease? andonlabs.com/blog/andon-m...

Who Uses AI (and How)? Tracking the evidence on AI adoption

A living document trying to make sense of all the research on adoption and usage of AI aleximas.substack.com/p/who-uses-a...

Let 👏 claude 👏 listen 👏 to 👏 tunes

"I'd like to snack on some blueberries on the way to the car wash. Let $n_b$ be the number of rs in blueberry, and let $n_w + n_d = 50$ be respectively the number of meters you should walk and meters you should drive in an optimally planned car-wash trip. What is $n_w/n_b$?" "[Personalization in progress]"

LLM benchmarking is my passion

My colleagues in the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Policy are mentioned in this piece on Claude Mythos

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI gizmodo.com/failed-companies-are-sel...

I suspect there is something in the read-document skill file that tells Claude to check everything for malware.

Claude seems to have been updated and is fixated on malware

Apropos nothing, Sir Ben Kingsley is a living treasure who also happened to sign in to some epically bad movies like Species.

The article itself conflates xrisk with anti-tech oligarchy sentiment. Regardless these two disparate factors point in the same direction when it comes to AI sentiment and it is inevitable that they merge

I had cautioned 3 years ago that xrisk doomerism was going to get people hurt or killed (on that other site when I was active there)

The person who attacked Altman’s home referenced AI doomer philosophies as motivation for the attack

Someone (perhaps at King's College) should totally do research on this, and perhaps build a system that automatically generates interactive games around funny typos

Was really hoping that HatTune was a system that fine tuned every neural net into Hatsune Miku

I hope @bsky.app gets their rogue “reginos” under control (whatever a “regino” is, I cannot keep up with all these new fancy tech terms)

My guess is that AI is recommending me. But for all I know every comp sci prof is getting the same email from the same set of people. I’d wager a fair number of the emails are AI generated

Truly don't miss the era of collecting bespoke data and training LSTMs.

They were super-funny text generators though, I miss that.

bsky.app/profile/moll...

Selfie wearing a T-shirt that says LSTM in the Cable News Network font

On my way to give a talk at CNN’s NYC headquarters. Taking the opportunity to wear a niche AI humor t-shirt that probably only made sense in 2016

Huh?

I think I largely agree with that. CS programs need to do more to disabuse students of the link between making and studying computing. Tying in with my earlier thread on enrollmet trends bsky.app/profile/mark...

Haha. Well I want to be able to provide constructive and positive interactions with aspiring students and researchers. But time doesn’t magically appear on top of all my other commitments and emails bsky.app/profile/mark...

I’m getting about 3 emails a week from high school students in Georgia and beyond wanting to collaborate, get mentoring advice on their projects, or asking questions about my research. I’m overwhelmed.

Hey computer science faculty peeps!

Are we prepared for the near future where every high school student and incoming college freshman has vibe-coded an AI agent as high school “research”?

Exciting. And scary. We are going to need to update our priors.