It's been 2 years since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, and its release has spawned a Pandora's Box of copyright lawsuits. Deven Desai and Mark Riedl examine how academic research may be affected and how it can be protected. bit.ly/3ZdXTNT

Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Balloch who just successfully defended his PhD dissertation!

It me trying to figure out how to use a clicker. And also talking about how AI agents that play role-playing games can be a path forward on some of the core grand challenges of AI like planning in language space. sites.google.com/gcloud.utah.ed…

I got to Zoom in to help announce that AIIDE Conference 2025 will be on the lovely University of Alberta campus here in Edmonton, Alberta! Looking forward to seeing everyone there next November!

I have converted a portion of my NLP Online Masters course to blog form. This is the progression I present that takes one from recurrent neural network to seq2seq with attention to transformer. mark-riedl.medium.com/transformers-o…

Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says… gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says…

Reminder that my Department, the School of Interactive Computing is hiring faculty in AI, ML, NLP, Computer vision, human-centered/responsible AI, and robotics ic.gatech.edu/faculty-hiring You can work with me on the 11th floor of this building.

Funny robe day. Congratulations to Dr. Number Eleven aka Jonathan Balloch

Mission accomplished

I don’t post identical stuff on Twitter and the blue sky place often. But when I do, I get more engagement at the other place. What are you all still doing here?

📢 Announcing the first IEEE ICRA workshop on Safely Leveraging VLMs in Robotics! #ICRA2025 🎯 How can we safely leverage vision-language foundation models to expand robot deployment? 📅 Short papers & failure demos due 04/11/23 🌐 tinyurl.com/safe-vlm 🧵(1/5)

🎤 Featuring a superb lineup of invited speakers and panelists: Marco Pavone (Stanford, NVIDIA) Sumeet Singh (GDM Robotics) Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) (ASU) Sanjiban Choudhury (Cornell) Mingxing Tan (Waymo) Mark Riedl (Georgia Tech) (2/5)

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📢Announcing 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 at Conference on Language Modeling! We welcome perspectives from LLM, XAI, and HCI! CFP (Due June 23): …reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io

✨Excited to share that I recently became a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing ! Endless thanks to my fearless advisors Elizabeth Mynatt & Sonia Chernova, & my committee members: Thomas Ploetz, Mark Riedl, James Landay, and Jodi Forlizzi! Looking forward to charting the journey ahead! 🚀