[New preprint!] What does it take to build machines that **meet our expectations** and **compliment our limitations**? In this Perspective, we chart out a vision, which engages deeply with computational cognitive science, to design truly human-centric AI “thought partners” 1/

NVIDIAGameDev Bots obviously not human? Eat GPUs for breakfast? Come to our talk on Thursday to find out how a small ML transformer can generate human-like movement for two teams of CSGO bots in 0.5ms per frame (amortized) on one CPU core! Paper has details davidbdurst.com/mlmove/

Building on the methodology spearheaded by 2024 Big Data Bowl winners Matthew Chang, Katherine Dai, Daniel Jiang and Harvey Cheng, Tackle Probability leverages machine learning to process millions of data points per game, incorporating 20 different features for each of the 11

What does it take to build AI systems that meet our expectations and complement our limitations? Our Perspective on thought partners which engage deeply with computational cognitive science is now out in Nature Human Behaviour ! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Giuseppe Riva Anna Wexler Ashley Feinsinger Nils Köbis .Katie Collins et al. advance a new Perspective of how we can build systems that complement our limitations and can be considered thought partners. Ilia Sucholutsky Umang Bhatt Kartik Chandra (also on Mastodon and Bsky) Mina Lee xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) Mark Ho Vikash Mansinghka Adrian Weller [9/13] nature.com/articles/s4156…

How close can LM agents simulate people? We interview person P for 2 hours and prompt an LM with the transcript, yielding an agent P'. We find that P and P' behave similarly on a number of surveys and experiments. Very excited about the applications; this also forces us to think

Interested in writing with AI? ✍️ Please apply to be a **postdoc** in my group through the UChicago DSI Scholars program! 🤠 Research in my group: minalee-research.github.io/research.html Application: datascience.uchicago.edu/research/postd… (review begins on Dec 6)

This year, I have 4 exceptional students on the academic job market, and they couldn’t be more diffferent, with research spanning AI policy, robotics, NLP, and HCI. Here’s a brief summary of their research, along with one representative work each:

The always-amazing #In2Writng workshop will be at #NAACL2025 NAACL HLT 2025 this time! #NLProc #HCI Paper deadline: Feb 28, 2025, AoE (no extensions!) Come submit your cool work! More: in2writing.glitch.me

3DL is recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2025! A thread👇highlighting some of our recent works, and what we are excited to explore next 🚀 Apply by Dec. 16; more info: cs.uchicago.edu/academics/admi… 1/

I'm recruiting a postdoc via the CBI Fellowship Program (carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/in…). Interested in designing & evaluating interactive systems for participatory AI, augmented and collective intelligence, responsible AI, or related areas? Please apply and reach out to me via email!

Human-centered Evalulation and Auditing of Language models (HEAL) workshop is back for #CHI2025, with this year's special theme: “Mind the Context”! Come join us on this bridge between #HCI and #NLProc! Submission deadline: Feb 17 AoE More info at heal-workshop.github.io.

📢📢Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies. 🌐Website: chi-staig.github.io 🗓️Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025

📢CHI'25 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI 🌐aka.ms/toolsforthough… 🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE

If you work on writing with LLMs, consider submitting to the In2Writing workshop at #NAACL2025 that alternates between *CL and HCI venues to enhance both our understanding of the writing process and train models to serve as better tools for the same ✍️