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Interview from my friends at GT about my book.

Good news: AI Chatbots haven't increased cheating in HS, yay! Bad news: Maybe that's because 70% of students were already cheating... uh oh. nytimes.com/2023/12/13/tec…

Dave and I interviewed Rich Sutton! computingup.com/rich-sutton-br…

A short Q&A on AI for NSF. youtube.com/watch?v=HcZ6bq…

Discussion of "deceptive" chatbots with Jennifer Strong SHIFT : podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shi… .

Airline installs chatbot. Customer gets bad information from it. Customer asks for refund. Airline says "the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions" (!). Court says no. (Whew.) Airline makes refund and turns off chatbot. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

I'm confused by this 23-and-me health survey question: During the last month, how often ... Has your memory been as good as it usually is? (A) Never, (B) Some of the time, (C), About half the time, (D) Most of the time, (E) Always. Isn't it usually as good as it usually is?

A glowing review of my book (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social) from one of my science communication heroes! (I went to one of Steven Strogatz 's book events on the notion of infinity and he encouraged me to write a book, and I did!)

Kinda cool... I haven't seen the book in the wild yet, but apparently it's even on display in some places!

Speaker at a talk just said that researchers who don't engage with the current work on large scale neural models will be dinosaurs. I'm wondering if I get to pick which kind of dinosaur before I have to decide.

Over my career, I've served on 53 Ph.D. dissertation committees. Five of the students have been named "Michael". There was also a "Mykel" and a "Michail". Homophily, you've gone too far.

Dear Schrodinger, the cat's alive! nytimes.com/2024/04/29/us/…

In my book, "Code to Joy", I include a Marvel-movie-like post credit scene teasing a future in which AI capabilities are available on an Arduino chip. I just learned that life is imitating art! theverge.com/2024/6/4/24170…

Great topic, great speakers!

I wanted to better understand how language models can help with decision-making and planning and worked with a great team to produce this nifty piece of work!

You'd think that, since I'm working in government, my id card would count as "government id". It does not. Very confusing when I tried to get through security at the Pentagon. (My Rhode Island drivers's license worked.)

I got to help shape this document, providing guidance about how AI researchers collaborate globally. It was unveiled at the UN General Assembly yesterday by the Secretary of State.

The US Secretary of State cannot tell a lie; after all, he's A. Blinken.

This month is the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, "Code to Joy". I'm happy to announce it's also the month of the release of the audiobook version of the book, which I narrate. Enjoy! The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social amazon.com/dp/B0DKG4KPWY