Chris Bail (chris_bail_duke 🧵) @chris_bail
Duke Professor directing https://t.co/oLxcnFusBQ & https://t.co/1DxdkCv8mo, more active at https://t.co/NnnIB9JbHs… & https://t.co/Q0kHKHOowG chrisbail.net Duke U. (views are my own) Joined November 2012-
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⚠️For PhDs who are thinking about jumping ship and diving into industry: Industry isn't necessarily better than academia. I have straddled both worlds. Here are 5 MYTHS about academia vs. industry:
Congrats to Duncan Watts, one of the newest members of the National Academy of Sciences!!!
Science education is so vital. Check out the amazing work of "Science Journal for Kids" which recently covered our research on using AI chatbots: sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how-c… Lots of other amazing content created by a small but mighty team. Please share or support them!
My awesome co-author @diliara_valeeva describing our work simulating social media using LLMs which is short-listed for a French innovation award!
My awesome co-author @diliara_valeeva describing our work simulating social media using LLMs which is short-listed for a French innovation award!
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam used hundreds of AI personas to find the best model for social media news feeds in terms of toxicity and bridging the political divide. @pettertornberg @J_Uitermark @chris_bail #GlobalTrendsForum
⏰📅 Only 3 days left to apply for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at @Unibo (deadline: April 25, 12 pm, GMT+1). Don't miss out on this free opportunity to join a unique program! Apply now: sicss.io/2024/bologna/ #SICSS #CSS
⏰📅 Only 3 days left to apply for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at @Unibo (deadline: April 25, 12 pm, GMT+1). Don't miss out on this free opportunity to join a unique program! Apply now: sicss.io/2024/bologna/ #SICSS #CSS
Ever wish your research *did not* replicate? Our study that suggests Americans become *more* polarized when they are exposed to a common enemies (not less) may generalize to Korea and Israel: shorturl.at/dlnCF (original study here: shorturl.at/almT8)
Ever wish your research *did not* replicate? Our study that suggests Americans become *more* polarized when they are exposed to a common enemies (not less) may generalize to Korea and Israel: shorturl.at/dlnCF (original study here: shorturl.at/almT8)
What a beautiful Essay on "Re-wilding" the internet, by Maria Ferrell and @robinberjon : noemamag.com/we-need-to-rew…
The future of AI is open source- latest Llama model compares very favorably with two of the latest and greatest proprietary models. Still not completely open, but an exciting step forward! ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llam…
Today my wife @ninaguilbeault launches her timely and important book THE GOOD EATER w. @BloomsburyPub! It’s an incredibly thoughtful and open-minded analysis of our food system and how you, as a consumer and eater, can navigate its many trade-offs while staying aligned with your…
"Because algorithms reveal more of their biases, people are also more likely to correct their biases when decisions are attributed to an algorithm than to themselves." pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…
"Humans had no natural predators, and then we created AI... it's like if salmon invented grizzly bears"
"Humans had no natural predators, and then we created AI... it's like if salmon invented grizzly bears"
Researchers at Stanford pitted AI against Human Experts in a war-game simulating conflict with China: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03407…
New experiment shows that people who interact with an AI chatbot vs. a person report "feeling heard" more often--yet the effect disappears when the people learn they are interacting with an AI chatbot: shorturl.at/cnuwx. Surprisingly, no one was asked to leave their wife.
Youtube, Twitter, and LinkedIn usage are all trending downward over the last year according to the latest USC Neely center survey on social media usage. Reddit, on the other hand, appears to be growing.
New post-doc at Data and Society: boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyres…
I will be teaching sentiment analysis using R at the Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. Thanks to hashtag#SICSSCalabar Juliet and Christopher Bail @chris_bail for equipping me with this skill last year!
"Our results suggest that between 6.5% and 16.9% of text submitted as peer reviews to these conferences could have been substantially modified by LLMs": arxiv.org/pdf/2403.07183…
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A thread on using edsl github.com/expectedparrot… for a data-labeling project 1/n
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Thrilled and honored to join this distinguished community, and grateful to my mentors, collaborators, and especially my students, who have taught me so much along the way.
Congratulations Duncan Watts of @Penn, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS161 #socialsciences #computerscience
@eollion @chris_bail @lpargyle @ShibaniSan @cjziems @JunsolK @thomasrdavidson @jcallahanbryant @LauraK_Nelson I also wonder if the RHLF/alighment work specifically focuses on making g() constant for, say, demographics to avoid crude (but accurate) stereotypes. E.g., I've seen ChatGPT be unwilling to speculate on the politics of a white male 55 year old small business owner in Alabama...
Happy that our #CHI2024 paper on the observer effect received an honorable mention award! 🏆 One of my favorite papers, and it was a joyful journey to do this work ❤️ Thanks again to my amazing coauthors @Pranshu258 @GloriaMark_PhD @emrek @munmun10 tinyurl.com/chi24obs
We often wonder how the awareness of being "watched" affects our online behaviors. Our #CHI2024 paper studies observer (/hawthorne) effect: how do people's social media use deviate from typical use with the awareness of being observed? w/ Pranshu @emrek @GloriaMark_PhD @munmun10
When you're making AI agents in edsl, you can give them static traits that (potentially) influence how they answer questions (see below) github.com/expectedparrot… but you can also give them traits dynamically, depending on the question or context by passing them a function 1/
@eollion @chris_bail @lpargyle @ShibaniSan @cjziems @JunsolK @thomasrdavidson @jcallahanbryant @LauraK_Nelson E.g., suppose we have two observations: (Vote for Biden) = (42 yr old white democrat) + (Biden's dog bit me) (Vote for Biden) = (42 yr old white democrat) + (Biden is my dad) The two unobserved factors get canceled out / loaded on the demographics IRL but the LLM can't…
Talking about political topics can be difficult, and it’s even harder to do this online! Researchers at @BYU & @DukeU wanted to see if using AI could help make these chats kinder. Learn more in our newest adapted article: sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how-c… @lpargyle @EthanBusby @chris_bail
@chris_bail @diliara_valeeva It’s very cool work!
On continue d'explorer les Global Trends avec le chapitre #GenerativeDemocracy – Réinventer des systèmes politiques tenant compte des dangers posés par les nouvelles technologies. 🗳️ On stage with us, @diliara_valeeva, presenting innovative findings on social media algorithms.
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam used hundreds of AI personas to find the best model for social media news feeds in terms of toxicity and bridging the political divide. @pettertornberg @J_Uitermark @chris_bail #GlobalTrendsForum
I've been posting about @ExpectedParrot & edsl <github.com/expectedparrot…>, and want to share in more detail what we've been working on, where we are going and why. (1/n)
If you’re an AirPod owner, how many pairs have you owned? I suspect AirPods are actually a subscription business
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