Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon
PhD-ing @UW @uwcip; Visiting Scholar @nyuniversity @nyuabudhabi; Alum @LTIatCMU @CarnegieMellonQ; Researching #CompSocSci #Misinformation #LLMs #SciSci #AIBias samemon.github.io Joined April 2010-
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in october, if someone said israel would destroy all the hospitals, municipal buildings, universities, playgrounds, schools, refugee camps, hundreds of journalists, 10,000+ children - over a 6-month siege on gaza - they'd have been rebuked for drawing undue parallels to genocide.
“What else do we call this other than the deliberate dehumanization of the Palestinian people?” I called out media bias and racism, on Gaza, and brought receipts!, in the opening monologue of my new show #MehdiUnfiltered today. Watch/share/subscribe: Zeteo.com/subscribe
We've observed a few things with pplx over the years: Verbatim copies of Google answer snippets in the early days. "Novel Image feature" just copies images from Google serp - still today - see screenshot. Personalization just collecting data but no difference in default answers.…
We've observed a few things with pplx over the years: Verbatim copies of Google answer snippets in the early days. "Novel Image feature" just copies images from Google serp - still today - see screenshot. Personalization just collecting data but no difference in default answers.… https://t.co/3wBz3WztAG
Startups are hiring influencers to peddle bullshit. This is a new kind of misinformation to peddle snake oil AI products with no backing. When you dig in, you see the growth rate has been hovering around 8.5%, with leading and lagging indicators for March showing a -16% drop.
Startups are hiring influencers to peddle bullshit. This is a new kind of misinformation to peddle snake oil AI products with no backing. When you dig in, you see the growth rate has been hovering around 8.5%, with leading and lagging indicators for March showing a -16% drop. https://t.co/EmGjdH77dM
Five AI research tools that do not hallucinate library.hkust.edu.hk/sc/ai-tools-wi…
Trust in AI: Evaluating @scite, @elicitorg, @ConsensusNLP, and @Scopus AI for Generating Literature Reviews library.hkust.edu.hk/sc/trust-ai-li…
The LLMification of scholarly writing and reviews is showing itself in the data. 1. Large uptick in words like pivotal, intricate, showcasing, realm appearing in CS abstracts on arXiv. 2. LLMiness appears more in arXiv preprints than peer-reviewed publications in the Nature…
A copyright sleight-of-hand..
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This kind of blows my mind: Imagine YOU are a data scientist, get a data file and need to build a classifier... Just tell your AI assistant to "classify this" and ... it's all DONE. Even checks for class imbalance.
Our Call for Abstracts has been extended for 1 week. and the Final Deadline for proposals will be March 31, 2024 (AOE) Read more here: icssi.org/guidelines
Our Call for Abstracts has been extended for 1 week. and the Final Deadline for proposals will be March 31, 2024 (AOE) Read more here: icssi.org/guidelines
In 1947 as new nations were being carved out on the map, a crimson elixir from Delhi was also partitioned. However, instead of diminishing its popularity, it gained fame on both sides of the border. This is the story of Rooh Afza. 1/15
I feel like the world is dying and all we care about is AI. AI that seems only good for escaping the reality we are running from. Please let us craft worlds we want to live in, not escape from or upscale with AI. I want the poetry of THIS life.
There is now overwhelming evidence of rape and sexual assault of Palestinians by Israeli forces in Gaza, and of sexual abuse of Palestinian kids in the West Bank. Notice the deafening silence on this. Why? Because they don’t see Palestinian women and kids as humans.
I don’t think there are words to describe how grotesque and cruel this is.
My colleagues @huggingface have recently shared great insights in the press, ones I haven't seen rehashed over & over. Here are some recent ones I've liked. 🧵 @jeffboudier, Product: "Open models tend to create an ecosystem, whereas closed models just tend to find customers"
Devin is wild AI software engineer. People have been getting wild results like taking website building requests on Reddit and trying to charge people🤯 8 examples:
This is sad. Is this the web Google wants? adweek.com/media/google-p…
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1K Followers 1K Following ML/AI LLMs & IR @allscicorp ❣️Open Science OSS @allen_ai @SemanticScholar @UChicago 🎓 PhD @ISTatPENNSTATE @AbvIiitm Do what excites & build something usefulWesley Hanwen Deng @wes_deng
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424 Followers 129 Following Associate Prof. @NYUAbuDhabi, interested in Computational Social Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Graph TheoryNikhil Sharma @nikhilsksharma
193 Followers 528 Following Incoming PhD in HAI @JohnsHopkins | Information Seeking | Disinformation Agents | Copilots for Social Good | PhD @JHUCLSP @JHUMCEH #NLProcClint J. @SearchDataEng
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263 Followers 5K Following Devr is a new Internet protocol for the governance of decentralized privacy networks (DPN), powering a new era for data sharing economiesConflict in the Age o.. @SocMedConflict
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1K Followers 4K Following building tooling to support voice & exit in search: https://t.co/NM3Uo0P7G8 https://t.co/LM5TgRY4oK - PhD from @BerkeleyISchoolMarco Zenone @marco_zenone
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261 Followers 160 Following Postdoc @uwcip; social psych PhD @USC. I study misinformation correction and how people make judgments of truth and risk. Otherwise probably in the ⛰. She/herSaloni Dash @DashSaloni
696 Followers 256 Following PhD Student at University of Washington | Microsoft ResearchCatherine King @CatherineKing77
110 Followers 210 Following Current Societal Computing PhD student at @S3DatCMU @SCSatCMU || Proud @williamandmary alum (MS and BS) || Swiftie || she/herYu Zhang @yuz9yuz
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732 Followers 858 Following PhD student at @StanfordNLP 🌲 Working on socially-aware + dialect-robust #NLP, #CSS 🔎 Previously at @gtcomputing 🐝 @MetaAI 👍 @USC_ISI 🌴 @EmoryUniversity 🧪Xiuqi Tommy Zhu @z_xiuqi
250 Followers 272 Following First-Year Phd student @NU_CAMD Prev. CUC & the Future Lab @Tsinghua_Uni & ByteDance @Larksuite CSCW+HCI+FutureWork+HumanAICollaborationOrestis Papakyriakopo.. @SciOrestis
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867 Followers 630 Following Helping AI understand people, so AI could help people understand people @[email protected]@jevinwest @jevinwest
8K Followers 156 Following Assoc. Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: https://t.co/KdCf8xpnNtYim Register (they/th.. @yimregister
1K Followers 270 Following Trauma informed AI education. Machine learning literacy, joy, and justice! PhD candidate at UW iSchool DataLab and CIP. #actuallyautistic and full of magic 💖Hong Chen @_Hong_Chen
180 Followers 707 Following PhD student at 〽️ichigan @UMSI | Computational Social Science | Science of ScienceMartin Saveski @msaveski
2K Followers 1K Following Assistant Professor @ UW iSchool; Ex Stanford & MIT. Interested in computational social science, social networks & causal inference.Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman
9K Followers 2K Following Associate Research Scientist @columbiajourn. Affililiate @bkcharvard, @citap, formerly: @uwcip, @princeton. Comp. soc. science, collective behavior, statsJialuo Yang @Camoriny
81 Followers 437 Following Prospective PhD student @ischoolUI, graduate student @gt_lmc, embodiment, human-agent interaction & human-computer integrationMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan
1.5M Followers 4K Following British-American journalist. Editor-in-chief and CEO of new media company @zeteo_news. Subscribe here: https://t.co/sEC1ETyGtnAndrei Boutyline @_Andrei_B_
219 Followers 126 Following Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of MichiganAI Now Institute @AINowInstitute
56K Followers 1K Following The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.Eugene Vinitsky @EugeneVinitsky
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1K Followers 1K Following Asst prof @KhouryCollege @NU_CAMD @Northeastern. Researching #HCI, #CSCW, #Accessibility. PhD @NorthwesternU; Prev @uwcreate @MSFTResearch. she/her. From 🇧🇩Abu Kitten al-Hanbali @AbuKittenTweets
13K Followers 179 FollowingLauren N. Ross @ProfLaurenRoss
4K Followers 669 Following Philosopher of Science, PhD, MD. Associate Professor, Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine. she/herESRC Digital Good Net.. @digitalgoodnet
2K Followers 3K Following An @esrc-funded, £4 million research network building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.Kyle Myers @KRoyMyers
2K Followers 490 Following Assistant professor @HarvardHBS studying the management of scientific productivity and the economics of innovationSharon Goldman @sharongoldman
6K Followers 2K Following Reporter on the AI beat, @FortuneMagazine Formerly @venturebeat [email protected] | Signal: sharongoldman.43 (for news tips only, no pitches)Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman504
929K Followers 4K Following Imam. Muslim for Humanity. Lover of Justice. Bridge Builder. New Orleans born & raised, originally 🇵🇸. President @YaqeenInstitute [email protected]Douglas Guilbeault @DzGuilbeault
2K Followers 1K Following Asst. Prof. at Berkeley Haas | Management of Organizations | Co-director of the Computational Culture Lab https://t.co/PQJHsmZc7C | Social Networks & CognitionBayan 𓂆 @BayanPalestine
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2K Followers 1K Following #nlproc #hci leading data research @allen_ai, he/him, bluesky https://t.co/5Hm9cx3UrzTurner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak
167K Followers 3K Following investing in Pre-Seed + Seed rounds at @BananaCap_ podcasting @ThePeelPod writing @TheSplit_ (sign up below)Internet Policy Revie.. @PolicyR
10K Followers 10K Following Journal on internet regulation. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @HIIG_Berlin in cooperation with @CopyrightCentre @CIS_CNRS @IN3_UOC @skytteUT@danwilliamsphil @jbakcoleman I'm also a bit unclear on what work the word science is doing for you in your essays. In what way are your views on claims made by misinformation researchers contingent on whether those claims are scientific or not? By science do you mean falsifiable or something more? Thank you!
in october, if someone said israel would destroy all the hospitals, municipal buildings, universities, playgrounds, schools, refugee camps, hundreds of journalists, 10,000+ children - over a 6-month siege on gaza - they'd have been rebuked for drawing undue parallels to genocide.
there's a stanford gsb professor who's low-key obsessed with using AI to make guesses about people based on features of their face, head, gait, etc... and last night when i read a news article about some phrenology-sounding paper i was like "kosinski?" and it was indeed him lol
I applied to 100 jobs using a resume with the name, "Kismma D. Nhuhts" and I got 29 interviews. This is what I've learned about resumes:
My student Boyuan always joked he would open a Boba shop someday - he actually made it happen, and now students on our floor are always supplied with (free) Boba 😀
My feeling watching this is I don’t want these robots to get better. They look so adorable as clumsy toddlers at play. I would watch a game of these guys playing over any chad-bots that comes out of more training. Stop the RL!
Where can you try all the latest and best LLM models? YOU know ;) Just launched Google's latest Gemini 1.5 Pro and @cohere 's new Command R+
…and funded by same country
Only in Gaza you will see airdrops and airstrikes in one picture. No one should look to the sky and wonder if what's falling is death or dinner.
🕊️red-teaming LLMs with DSPy🕊️ tldr; we use DSPy, a framework for structuring & optimizing language programs, to red-team LLMs 🥳this is the first attempt to use an auto-prompting framework for red-teaming, and one of the *deepest* language programs to date
I do worry sometimes that some AI companies are in a sort of pump and dump mode. Chasing low quality features so quickly that users eventually lose trust in the space overall. @YouSearchEngine we will continue to work hard on answer quality and trust in LLMs.
@RichardSocher "Majority of citations just numbered links behind random sentences - often no relation between a sentence and its citation" - Have seen this too many times on pplx now. Lost trust in its citing feature.
We've observed a few things with pplx over the years: Verbatim copies of Google answer snippets in the early days. "Novel Image feature" just copies images from Google serp - still today - see screenshot. Personalization just collecting data but no difference in default answers.…
Startups are hiring influencers to peddle bullshit. This is a new kind of misinformation to peddle snake oil AI products with no backing. When you dig in, you see the growth rate has been hovering around 8.5%, with leading and lagging indicators for March showing a -16% drop.
🎉 I updated the LLM Course: - New HuggingChat assistant (cc @victormustar) - New notebooks (AutoQuant, ZeroChat) - New DSPy module - Course flow rework (LLM fundamentals hidden by default) 📚 LLM Course: github.com/mlabonne/llm-c…
It was incredible seeing @lateinteraction in action @MIT_CSAIL with @ecardenas300!! 🔥🏛️🔥 Omar gave an amazing talk spanning all things from ColBERT to Multi-Hop Baleen RAG and DSPy! 🧠 The slide image below shares a part of the talk that has heavily resonated with us since --…
I told a grad-student co-author "try to imagine me as the guy from 'Memento' who can't remember anything & needs clues to pick-up the thread on projects" and they said "I believe you, because you already used that memento analogy"
The LLMification of scholarly writing and reviews is showing itself in the data. 1. Large uptick in words like pivotal, intricate, showcasing, realm appearing in CS abstracts on arXiv. 2. LLMiness appears more in arXiv preprints than peer-reviewed publications in the Nature…
I've now seen many papers on explainability in AI (XAI) state that "explanation" is extensively studied in philosophy w/out engaging w this work deeply. Some cite 1-2 arbitrary papers, claim there is no consensus on the topic, or look to dictionary definitions of "explanation".
How common is it to use Internet memes in scientific research papers? This was a little surprising for me. Paper link: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
I was talking to someone who is in the faculty job market this year. They told me something that really touched me. :( They said, they feel unwanted, neglected, and lost. They feel injustice when they find someone with a "weaker" profile got a job that they applied for. (1/2)