Family and friends asking me about whether I'm more excited about Llama 3 or Sora video generation.

Me: But have you seen this?

Buried lede: two students from my undergrad gen-ed class, one of my grad students, and UMD President Pines successfully beat the AI system at answering AI/UMD-related questions. Go humans!

🚨Job Announcement🚨
I'm looking for a PhD student w/ an interest in low-resource #NLProc and #NLProc for medical applications to join my group (NALA) at JGU (@uni_mainz), Germany.
More details here: t.ly/2dJP3
Application deadline: 05/15/24
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Some personal updates: I joined OpenAI a few months ago, working on all things robustness/safety/privacy.

Also, we are working to publish more of our safety work. See my first project here below, where we make initial progress on prompt injections and other attacks!

Happy to share our recent EACL 2024 paper #TENOR . Unlike LDA, BERTopic, Contextualized topic model... that generate a list of abstract keywords for each topic: TENOR leverages topic models with user-centered topic generation and document analysis with minimal user effort.

Build what you need and use what you build. This is a core philosophy of my research. It shifts the focus away from publishing “papers” to what really matters — impact. This thread unpacks why I think this is a successful approach to science. 1/10 Or see:
perceiving-systems.blog/en/post/build-…

A brilliant response by Timothy Snyder to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s accusation of Nazis in Ukraine. As a leading scholar on the subject of nationalism, Snyder makes three points:
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i know this is schmidhuber-y, but i just stumbled upon my slide from February 2023 detailing the 'many-shot jailbreaking' attack popular earlier this month. the lag between broad praxis and arxiv/whitepaper is tremendous.

the whole presentation is here, with other goodies:…

Many AI safety methods rely on AIs to provide oversight and supervision. The fact that models are interacting with one another alone should be a safety concern. We provide some initial evidence to support this intuition. More to follow soon!

Clever SRS algorithm optimizer paper uses BERT-based similarity metric on item text to better approximate forgetting curves for new items (via Jarrett Ye)

Paper URL: arxiv.org/abs/2402.12291

Via this very interesting SRS benchmarking post: reddit.com/r/Anki/comment…

Researchers often have to ask for recommendation letters for visa/job applications, etc.

I wrote a script that allows you to find who cites your papers frequently to create a list of potential letter writers: github.com/neubig/researc…

Hope it's helpful, improvements are welcome!

📢 I'm recruiting a postdoc at UMD
🗓️ Starting in 2024
🖥️🙋 Topics related to human-AI interaction
🔜 Apply by May 31, but earlier if possible!
🤑 $75-$80k+benefits, unencumbered (ie not 'big project') funding

Link to full post and form for applications in thread.

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Sadly I won’t make it to #EACL2024 in Malta this year but Wenyan Li will be there to talk about Data Curation for Image Captioning on Monday at 1400 in Marie Louise 2

If you're at #EACL2024 I will be leading a Birds of a Feather session on Question Answering at 16:00 in the Reading Room. Maybe we'll even get some questions answered.

This is the most I have agreed with an in-office Republican in 2024.

'As a police officer, I don't like it.'

'As a drunk driver, I don't like it.'

'As a traffic signal sales rep, I don't like it.'

It is a roundabout.
Here's a little 🧵

🥳🍾 It's official - I'm a tenured associate professor! This job is incredible luck and privilege, and IT-Universitetet is an amazing place to work at!!!

More PhD student and postdoc positions will be announced soon.

Researchers Jordan Boyd-Graber & Neha Srikanth of UMD CLIP Lab are leading the computational component of a multidisciplinary project that provides vital information about maternal & infant health. Watch the impact their research is having on new moms & their babies. youtu.be/R1fCty5KbXs?si…

This is a CT scan of Heinz’s new ketchup cap. It represents a $1.2 million engineering investment over 8 years. Here’s why it’s significant… 🧵

📢📢Are you studying vocab for the #GRE / #GMAT and want to earn up to $50 while doing so? Come join our research study with KARL, a flashcard tool which now uses model-generated mnemonic devices to make vocab learning more engaging! 💡 📚 Details below👇