Andrew Piper @_akpiper

Using #AI and #NLP to study storytelling at McGillU. Director of .txtlab and author of the forthcoming book, Why You Should Read More Fiction. txtlab.org Montreal, QC Joined March 2012

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

8 hours ago

Here's a funny result with Gemini. I accidentally passed it blank text and asked it for the moral of the story. It's like prompting for its default moral stance.

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

22 hours ago

this is basically a request for much better benchmarks. Something many of us are working on. Need to get industry buy in.

Ethan Mollick @emollick

a day ago

this is basically a request for much better benchmarks. Something many of us are working on. Need to get industry buy in.

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

a day ago

let's be super clear: if AI peaked today every office worker everywhere would be more productive simply by being able to generate BS text to fulfill bureaucratic demands. That's a win.

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GPT-5 = that really overconfident RA who thinks they know everything and make everything too complicated and takes forever to figure out what they did wrong. GPT-4o = that ideal RA who works with you to devise an efficient solution to actual problems.

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden

4 days ago

Thinking outside the box.. 😅

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

2 days ago

"The institutions winning this aren't the ones with the best detection software. They're the ones preparing students for an AI-integrated workplace while maintaining academic rigor."

Razia Aliani @RaziaAliani

3 days ago

"The institutions winning this aren't the ones with the best detection software. They're the ones preparing students for an AI-integrated workplace while maintaining academic rigor."

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Henry Oliver @HenryEOliver

3 days ago

instead of telling people reading fiction is about developing empathy (ugh), we should tell them it's about imagination (the basis of morality, as Adam Smith said) if you want to understand someone, you don't need to empathise with them, you need to imagine them

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

2 days ago

Can't wait to read. I basically think poor analogical reasoning is behind so much misinformation.

Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere

4 weeks ago

Can't wait to read. I basically think poor analogical reasoning is behind so much misinformation.

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

2 days ago

My daily reminder that GPT5 does not speed anything up. Long thinking, long code blocks, so many errors that are harder to debug. 4o for the win.

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

2 days ago

Yes! Yes! and more yes! There is so much admin bloat in the world. AI to the rescue. Also this looks like universities 😇

Vaibhav Domkundwar @vaibhavbetter

4 days ago

Yes! Yes! and more yes! There is so much admin bloat in the world. AI to the rescue. Also this looks like universities 😇

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

2 days ago

Such a good point. Employment challenges are due to education lags. AI has basically supplanted learning and now we're figuring out how to incorporate AI back into learning...how to use AI. Next gen students will be rock stars.

Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg

2 days ago

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

2 days ago

Yeah! Finally incorporating the arts into the study of social data. Great initiative can't wait to read.

Florian Ederer @florianederer

3 days ago

Yeah! Finally incorporating the arts into the study of social data. Great initiative can't wait to read.

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

2 days ago

Answer: human in the loop collaboration. For sure more powerful than automated science, but: there is likely a place for automated science too. Sometimes scale is better than novelty. We've learned that over and over again from the AI revolution.

Paul Novosad @paulnovosad

2 days ago

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

2 days ago

100%. But we account for waayy more prior work than before too. Reading needs to be selective and is a learned skill.

Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science @MishaTeplitskiy

4 days ago

100%. But we account for waayy more prior work than before too. Reading needs to be selective and is a learned skill.

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Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman

3 days ago

1/ A recent Stanford study led by @erikbryn found that entry-level jobs for 22-25 year-olds in fields most exposed to AI have dropped 16%. Some reactions to the data, and why I believe we need to design a new on-ramp to work in the AI era:

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AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success

3 days ago

Story of every CEO right now 😂

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Ethan Mollick @emollick

3 days ago

This is a fascinating paper that suggests that AI agents can indeed be used for social science experiments, but that just using a chatbot isn't good enough, instead prompts developed based on social science & game theory makes AI agent actions predictive of real human outcomes.

Benjamin Manning @BenSManning

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

3 days ago

And another from the notebooks: beauty is when some problem of communication is resolved.

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Andrew Piper @_akpiper

3 days ago

Found in an old notebook: Literature is a science of communication.

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Damien Masson @damienhci

3 days ago

Visual Story-Writing. While you write, our word processor visualizes the timeline, world map, and character relationships. Editing these visuals updates the story (e.g. drag a character on the map to move them). This summarizes our #UIST2025 paper. #HCI #LLMs #AI Thread 🧵 (1/8)