Weird way to say you are a human looking for a job but ok
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Today I have seen people opining that AI will be a utility like water that one pays for by the usage amount. I have also seen people opining that we will be payed in AI inference time instead of money.
Not really. It just says it’s at their discretion and points to content moderation policies that don’t seem to apply to our paper.
Erg, arXiv "rejected" one of my papers that is under review at a workshop not a position paper. What the heck.
@arxiv.bsky.social is hiring a CEO. Job advert is here: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
I like the idea that I am not exploiting my identity enough because I cannot be in more than one place at a time. Lost opportunity. Much dystopian. Very wow.
Life comes at you fast, especially in AI - as you can see by the massive volte-face China has made on OpenClaw. My latest for
@fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91507241/chi...
If you are a researcher using ChatGPT Edu metadata about your research has been leaking www.fastcompany.com/91507219/cha...
Turns out that appropriating peoples’ identities without consent was a bad idea
I’m going to be sad if Grammarly didn’t steal my identity
Oettinger was convinced that he could solve AI by building a virtual world and "teaching" agents to run around doing things like shopping. "Teaching" meant simple rule learning at the time.
I love how NLP history doesn't repeat, but often rhymes. Here is what people are excited about in 2026:
My favorite person in NLP right now is Anthony Oettinger (I'm biased, he's my academic ancestor to the n-th degree). His dissertation was on Russian-to-English at a time when a harddrive was a giant drum that could only store like 50 words. He coined the term "compunications", which didn't catch on.
I must drop everything to respond. The Navy ALPAC report that machine translation was doomed to fail. The transformer architecture was developed for machine translation.
Weizenbaum's Eliza.
I have a strong suspicion that most social media is financially supported by bots that generate fake ads and click farms of bots clicking on ads. So the Meta acquisition of Moltbook makes perfect sense
MAR10 = date today
MARIO = dunna dunna dunna
Congrats to @upolehsan.bsky.social and team. Their CHI'26 paper won an Honorable Mention award!
"From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing
Asymptomatic AI Harms for Dignified Human-AI Interaction" (arxiv.org/abs/2601.21920) dives into the AI-as-Amplifier paradox, explained in comic form.
7 years ago I radically cut my dependence on gasoline and upgraded my metal health. Never been a better time to invest in an e-bike, especially if you live in a metro area and especially especially if you live in Atlanta.
Moving all of my petroleum stocks into daylight savings
Avoiding the need for a Butlerian Jihad by making Altman a butler
I've gained a lot of clarity on what parts of computing science are likely to remain valuable for the foreseeable future. E.g. I helped Claude work through some issues it was having with computational complexity because it was making some poor choices. I knew what to ask and where to point it.
It comes at the cost of the most frustrating things that I feel like no student would ever misunderstand. And students don't "compress" every few hours and forget important stuff. But I can iterate quickly, so it is probably still a win.
(it would take me a very long time because I don't have a lot of time to do coding myself)
I am able to explore these hypotheses before I send my research team down a rabbit hole. So that is good. Any my hypotheses are mostly panning out. Net positive, net win.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to mock coding assistants. I'm using Claude Code to explore some initial hypotheses through visualization. I am not very sophisticated when it comes to creating visualizations, and I've done in a few days what would have taken me a very long time.
Yeah I know, someone will tell me that I should have forced it to write down everything in a .md file. I'll go ahead and do it for you: #skillissues
Also my laptop crashed recently, and upon restore, I am unclear whether it remembers anything. Claude's personality also appears to be completely different. It used to speak in short sentences and a lot of bullet points, now it is writing very long paragraphs with no bullet points.
"No really I want each sentence on a line by itself"
*generates 5 pages deliberating on what I mean by that, considering the possibility that I am confused and don't actually want that at all, then going back to deliberating on what I mean it for 5 more pages*
