Hal Daumé III (Hal Daumé III) & Katie Shilton were part of a group that won Univ. of Maryland's Invention of the Year Award in the social innovation category for their technology that can teach students in any discipline about AI & information literacy. Read more: trails.umd.edu/news/trails-le…

Can you spot when AI bluffs?🤖 Can you outguess AI—or work with one to dominate trivia?🏁 🏆 We are hosting the first Human–AI coop trivia (Quizzing) competition. 🎲Play, 🛠️build, or ✍🏼write questions... ..and win prizes 🎁. 🥳 It’s fun, free, and happening this June 🧠🤖👇

📢 New pub! “Actionable Insights Regarding Cyberbullying Among College Students” is out now by Springer Publishing. Even better? It’s the first paper with “Dr.” in front of Dr. Juana Hollingsworth ’s name. 🎓 connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrvv/…

1/ 🌎 Real-world datasets are messy—some domains dominate while others barely show up. This imbalance leads traditional #RLHF (like #GRPO) to favor prevalent domains, hurting fairness and generalization. So, how do we fix this? 🔥 Our new method, 🪩DISCO 🪩, elegantly tackles

🚨 Introducing RESTOR: Knowledge Recovery in Machine Unlearning: openreview.net/pdf?id=BbwlJpN… In the era of large language models (LLMs), the right to be forgotten has never been more critical. As models absorb vast amounts of web-scale data, they risk memorizing misinformation,

Do chatbots provide sound advice to stop smoking? Most of the time they do, says a TRAILS study that analyzed 3 chatbots. But sometimes answers include errors or misinformation, suggesting the need for improvements to these AI-powered tools. Learn more: trails.umd.edu/news/anti-smok…

Do you like trivia? Can you spot when AI is feeding you BS? Or can you make AIs turn themselves inside out? Then on June 14 at College Park (or June 21 online), we have a competition for you.

An interview w/Soheil Feizi by Kelly O'Grady on AI text detection was featured CBS Saturday Morning. Feizi explains how current AI detection tools are often unreliable, & should be used with caution in high-stakes settings involving academic integrity. Watch: go.umd.edu/1zt5

Excited to speak at the Workshop on Computer Vision in the Wild #CVPR2025 2025! 🎥🌍 🗓️ June 11 | 📍 Room 101 B, Music City Center, Nashville, TN 🎸 🧠 Talk: From Perception to Action: Building World Models for Generalist Agents Let’s connect if you're around! #CVPR2025 #robotics

We had our first human–computer cooperative AI tournament at the UMD. Key takeaways: 1) computers are getting better at trivia 2) they still suck at calibration 3) our teaming mechanic kept the games competitive and mostly fun (at least that’s what the players said).

You cannot really train all these models to cater to different preferences. Can you have one model that caters to all? Furong Huang unveils a technique to customize AI models on-the-fly to user goals, reducing the computational cost of tailoring AI systems to individual needs.

I'm excited to share that GWU is hosting a World Bank Symposium on AI & the Future of Human Capital. For those not steeped in the development, Human Capital == people’s skills, knowledge, and health worldbank.org/en/events/2025… Some flexibility in the deadline may be possible.

Supported by TRAILS, Huaishu Peng (Huaishu Peng), Ge Gao, Jiasheng Li (Jiasheng Li) and Cornell Information Science's Malte Jung are building wearable AI to turn nonverbal cues—like nods and gestures—into touch and audio signals to improve communication between blind individuals and their

A valuable project from our UMD Science, @UMIACS and UMD College of Information researchers to use wearable AI to enrich communication for people with visual impairments. go.umd.edu/20q4

How good (or bad) is GPT-5 — and does it matter for you? I’ve been seeing a lot of posts lately debating the quality of GPT-5’s responses. I tried a few of the examples people mentioned. Here’s one from my own experiment (screenshot attached): I asked GPT-5 to solve a simple

Morgan's Momentum cannot be stopped! As the nation's third-largest HBCU progresses toward becoming a Carnegie-classified very high research (R1) university, the The Baltimore Banner reports on how the National Treasure is getting there. Read the article: thebaltimorebanner.com/education/high…