#COLM2025 is starting. Find @glennmatlin.bsky.social to learn about why LLMs kinda, sorta, but don't really understand psychological suspense in stories.

It’s a complex topic everyone so come find our poster! I am excited to share our findings and talk about what’s next for computational creativity and cognitive science

The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work Large Language Models (LLMs) are fancy artificial neural networks. But you don’t have time to learn the math or engineering. Unfortunately…

Hi all. I whipped up a blog post that give non-technical intuition behind how LLMs and chatbots work.

mark-riedl.medium.com/the-intuitio...

It's a variation on a talk I've given a few times to K-12 teachers and other non-technical LLM users.

Coincidentally also a list of the best RPGs I never got to finish

@markriedl.bsky.social the most incredibly accurate take I have seen was on twitter where someone correctly described it as buying a vibe, a dream, a hope.

Strong contender for “worst use of agency/agentic this year” I really wish everyone wasn’t somehow talking now using slang about AI
I gotta live in it all the time as a PhD sure but now it’s every where

@markriedl.bsky.social is dead on. they’re actually handing out pro subs now for free to students - until 2026 (my recollection is they even say “after finals” or something) so yea they’re definitely recognizing they need to get young folks interested to build a long term customer base