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*
"I want each sentence on a separate line."
*writes code to concatenate all sentences, which is then repeated on n lines where n is the number of sentences*
Does it help to curse at Claude Code, because oh my god does it make some questionable choices. So far I am holding my tongue because I've also heard that it can spiral.
Gemini attempts to bribe the CoT summarizer with ASCII coffee
I am mentioned on Weird Al Yankovic's Wikipedia page.
We are seeking submissions for a special issue of the Forum, "Political Science and/or Fiction" (yes, the "and/or" is a pun). See attached for details. Submissions due 6/30/26.
Both. I've heard of movements to cancel GPT accounts. I would guess the bigger issue, though, is internal dissatisfaction. A lot of OpenAI employees undoubtedly feel as strongly about government surveillance as Anthropic and are smart enough to know the initial protections were weak.
In light of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, RLC decided to remove the abstract deadline: rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
The only deadline is for the full paper: Mar 5(AOE) openreview.net/group?id=rl-...
Affected folks may also contact the PCs to discuss deadline extensions before Mar 5.
I'm with you on that.
It’s a weird case. Thaler created this AI system and asserts that it is the sole creator of art, patents, etc. he goes around the world filing for copyright and patents. Sometimes he wins sometimes he loses
The US copyright office has allowed copyright on works that have a mix of AI and human effort. 2/2
Supreme Court refuses to hear case about copyright of an AI-generated artwork. The lower court decision disallowing copyright of this piece stands. The case in question is for artwork that is claimed to be 100% autonomously generated www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre... 1/2
Thank you Matthew!
The ML Center as a research organization does not take a stance, except to say that data and power consumption of models and hardware are important research topics that our faculty are actively working on.
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Hello. As of today I am the Director of Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center ml.gatech.edu
ML@GT was founded in 2016 and includes over 190 affiliated faculty members. The center aims to research and develop innovative, sustainable ML and AI systems in socially and ethically responsible ways.
Sam Altman @sama · 21h I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA. melissa “cancelled student debt” byrne @mcbyrne · 20h Will you turn off the tool if they violate the rules? Sam Altman @sama Yes, we will turn it off in that very unlikely event, but we believe the U.S. government is an institution that does its best to follow law and policy. What we won't do is turn it off because we disagree with a particular (legal military) decision. We trust their authority
"we believe the U.S. government is an institution that does its best to follow law" not a history buff I take it
Thanks @glinden.bsky.social , I didn't have time to do more than a quick post this morning
