Two weeks ago, I heard back officially from NSF that my CAREER proposal was award.
Today, I heard back from the Vice Chancellor's office that I've been granted tenure! 🎉
I guess now I can finally say that I have a career and I go tenure! (1/n)

What happens when you deploy a simulated social media environment and ask users to interact w/AI interventions?

CSAIL researchers investigate how genAI can mitigate “alternative facts”

A thread 📰

Interested in academic jobs in EE/CS? Apply for the Rising Stars workshop at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)! (deadline June 14)

risingstars-eecs.mit.edu

Excited to share our work on the cultural adaptability of LLMs!
📣We release NormAd, a dataset to measure LLM adaptability to varying degrees of social and cultural norms from 75 different countries!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2404.12464

Are LLMs biased toward themselves?

Frontier LLMs give higher scores to their own outputs in self-eval. We find evidence that this bias is caused by LLM's ability to recognize their own outputs

This could interfere with safety techniques like reward modeling & constitutional AI

My first grant as a PI post-PhD (: . Excited to finally be able to talk about the paper publicly. Starting to feel like I can do this professor thing...

Thrilled by Saadia Gabriel’s (Saadia Gabriel) insights at our Pizza Chat! 🍕From tackling AI biases to the journey from undergrad to PhD, her AMA was a deep dive into data science ethics and the future of AI. A true inspiration for aspiring researchers!

🚨 Previous Gemini incidence revealed severe fairness concerns in Text-To-Image (T2I) models, leading to increased efforts to research biases in T2I systems. At this critical time point, we take a retrospective step and reflect on ‘What has been done’ and ‘What can be done’ in…

ACL announcement:
'The ACL Executive Committee has voted to significantly change ACL's approach to protecting anonymous peer review. The change is effective immediately. (1/4) #NLPRoc

I appreciate the optimism of the last line. Motivational words to power me through the next two weeks' writing.

I think about this a lot. As an academic, as a poet, writing is really an act of discovery. Not everyone feels this way, but for a lot of people writing is a way of thinking.

This should really make us pause and think about how we want computers to get involved with our writing:

Will be giving a talk at this workshop - I think it will be fun!

Evaluation is an incredibly important topic when it comes to social accountability - and with LLMs there's a lot of system properties that make traditional approaches difficult! Looking to shed some light on this.

I'm delighted to share a position paper I'm presenting this Thursday at the Big Picture Workshop at EMNLP: a 9-page summary of my PhD thesis, laying out a framework for a *science* of NLP.

If you want to know what my PhD taught me, read the paper (and come by the workshop)!

Coming to #EMNLP2023 and want to learn about all the progresses, recent work and future directions in Creative NLG? #NLProc

Attend our inperson tutorial T6 tomorrow(December 6) at Pisces 2 & 3 ⏰ 14:00-17:30

emnlp2023-creative-nlg.github.io

Vishakh Padmakumar He He Violet Peng

Tomorrow Zeerak@{mastodon,bsky}.social and I will be co-presenting on the topic 'Delphi, and Whether Machines Can Learn Morality' at the Big Picture Workshop at #EMNLP23 (1:30-2:30pm)! I'll be sharing my research journey sparked by the Delphi experiences🤗Come and hangout!

It's application season! We might consider getting help from ChatGPT to draft SOP, reference letters, etc😏. But, hold on!✋ Yixin found that LLMs often perpetuate traditional stereotypes, portraying men as agentic (like natural leaders) and women as communal (such as well-liked…

Congrats to UCLA Asst. Prof. Aditya Grover and incoming Asst. Prof. Saadia Gabriel Saadia Gabriel of UCLA CS Department on being named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in science. Grover and Gabriel were each recognized for their work using artificial intelligence. samueli.ucla.edu/two-ucla-engin…

Looking forward to starting my new chapter at uclanlp in a year with the MARS Lab! saadia-gabriel.github.io/mars_lab.html

I made the list! Thank you to all the wonderful mentors who have supported over the years (especially Yejin Choi, Franzi Roesner, Noah A. Smith, Hamid Palangi, Asli Celikyilmaz, Luke Zettlemoyer, Hanna Hajishirzi, Yulia Tsvetkov and Marzyeh).

Congratulations to Saadia Gabriel for being selected as one of the Forbes 30 under 30!! forbes.com/profile/saadia…
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