Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking "Our findings reveal that while LLM assistance can provide short-term boosts in creativity during assisted tasks, it may inadvertently hinder independent creative performance when

My primary feeling about the H1B discourse is that all this talk about cultural superiority is extremely ugly. There’s a lot that’s worth saying about the issue, but this isn’t it.

A good analogy for why I don’t want my students using AI to do their coursework. The purpose is to struggle with the material and receive feedback on the work that helps you reflect on your thought process. Some students think the purpose is to appear to have done the work.

Well deserved! Very exciting news!

Curious about what we are doing at The University of Chicago to advance Human Computer Integration? pbs.org/video/chicago-… shows how we connect computers with the body to provide physical embodied assistance—1st live demo of Yun Ho (Yun Ho new PhD) where she shows wearable muscle stimulation!

This is a very real reason why DEI is necessary to improve science. My pet theory about why the populist right finds DEI objectionable is that these efforts failed hard at intersectionality (e.g., excluding poor, first-gen white students), as described in the book “Elite Capture”

🤔Interested in how #HCI thinks about using #LLMs, or looking to understand best practices for human-LLM interaction? 🚨🚨New paper: Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI through a Systematic Literature Review

Madness.

How can helping people think with data benefit society? Explore the research of Alex Kale (Alex Kale), Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at The University of Chicago! UChicagoCS

Reducing overhead on grants to 15% is definitely bad news and a malicious attempt to defund universities. However, overheads should never have gotten as high as 55-70%. It’s insane that so little grant money actually goes to research.