Ever find yourself delaying a conversation because you're nervous about how it might go?😩
We developed IMBUE, an #LLM -backed tool, to help you improve #communication skills and manage #emotions , through simulation and just-in-time feedback.

Paper🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.12556…

I've often been confused at 'AI alignment' without specifying goals, desired properties, and intended user populations. Turns out we all VARY in our preferences, goals, values. This variance is too often not captured and supported in AI alignment research.

Check this paper out.

OLMo-7b is finally out 🎉, and we are releasing everything; weights, intermediate checkpoints, training code and logs, training data and toolkit, evaluation and adaptation code and data.

Most of it has been released, and the rest is coming soon. OLMo-65b and Adapted OLMo-7b are…

The PyWhy Causality-in-Practice seminar is kicking off next week with a talk by Kun Zhang-in pursuit of Causality with ML !

People are increasingly using LLMs like #ChatGPT for #mentalhealth support. But do we truly understand their capabilities and limitations❓

Introducing 🌟BOLT🌟, a computational framework to assess the behavior of LLMs🤖 when employed as therapists💬

arxiv.org/abs/2401.00820 🧵

Important lessons for LLM Chaining from decades of work on Crowdsourcing!

Can AI help improve the crisis in well-being? It's clear (to me, at least) that AI will not substitute humans, but it could enhance the abilities of both trained and untrained counselors. A cool paper by Ashish Sharma examines a tool to increase empathy.arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15144…

I'm recruiting PhD students Allen School UW NLP (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas include Human-AI collaboration, language agents, LLM safety & applications to mental health, social sciences, education.

Apply here: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/…

UW Data Science
@UW_iSchool
HCI & Design at UW

Are you a:

🔬Biomedical researcher working on tough problems?

💻 #AI expert eager to test algorithms?

👉 Explore 250+ openly accessible biomedical challenges at OpenChallenges.io

Can't find the challenge you’re organizing? Let Sage Bionetworks know!

#OpenScience #AI Challenges

#UWAllen University of Washington's Gabriel Ilharco aims to make machine learning models more reliable and versatile; Ashish Sharma develops #AI systems to support mental health. Both earned 2023 J.P. Morgan AI Ph.D. Fellowships for applying AI to solve real-world problems: news.cs.washington.edu/2023/08/17/mod…

Phenomenal resource for building LLM powered experiences for scientific literature!

CLPsych 2024 is collocated with EACL and the first CFP is out. We are looking forward to seeing your submissions clpsych.org

Looking forward to seeing my friends and colleagues in the Stanford NLP Group group again. Tune in at 11am PT for my talk.

For this week’s NLP Seminar, we are thrilled to host Tim Althoff to talk about 'On the Therapeutic Potential of Language Models'!

When: 10/19 Thursday 11am PT
Non-Stanford affiliates registration form: forms.gle/xuNQSFPLSquxdN…
A zoom link will be sent before the talk

🧠 Now in Nature TranslationalPsychiatry: Discover how #NLProc is set to improve mental health research and interventions. We review findings, biases, and propose a validated framework for bridging the gap between clinical and CS researchers!

📚: nature.com/articles/s4139…

My oh my, new PNASNews !

We have LMs help foster understanding in convos between people who disagree on a divisive issue (gun control). This increased conversation quality and democratic reciprocity/tolerance, without changing policy positions!
🔗pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
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Are you about to start a PhD? Take note of these insightful lessons shared by PhD student Muhammad Khalifa

Above all, keep in mind that the Ph.D. years can become the best time in your life—it’s all about your attitude towards the process & your daily habits.
ai.engin.umich.edu/2023/08/17/eig…

Congratulations Ashish Sharma

Happy Birthday to Margaret Hamilton, NASA's first software engineer. Born #OTD in 1936, Hamilton led the team that created the flight software for the Apollo 11 mission which landed the first humans on the moon.

we are recruiting a teaching track assistant professor in data science at UW iSchool ischool.uw.edu/about/jobs/fac…

ping me if you're interested in the opportunity or have questions about the position