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Deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Maxwell McCombs. I’m grateful to have had the chance to visit him with Dr. David Weaver and Dr. Jonathan Zhu in May 2023. His contributions to communication research will always be remembered.

Can #LLMs generate novel research ideas? Check out our one year-long human study with 100+ NLP researchers, done by the amazing CLS

My first first-author paper with Joey Heffner Gloria Feng Jutta Joormann & Robb Rutledge is now published in PNASNews! 🎉 Human- and ChatGPT-rated language sentiment of brief text responses predicted changes in depression. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Yale Psychology Yale University 🧵(1/n)

When I tried OpenAI O1-preview on complex Chinese math problems, the model still thinks in English. This behavior aligns with our findings in our #ACL24 paper on "Leveraging Pivot Language in Cross-Lingual Problems" We found that answering non-English questions while thinking in

🚨 Did you know that LLM-powered web agents can be tricked into leaking your private data? 🌐⚔️ Our latest work introduces the Environmental Injection Attack (EIA) — a new attack approach that injects malicious content designed to adapt well to different environments, causing

Asking LLMs to follow complex instructions to programming with function calls precisely is still a challenging task.

#EMNLP2024

A Viewpoint on increasing the presence of BIPOC researchers in computational science features input from 12 experts in the field and discussions on the need for improved education and methods design. Christine Yifeng Chen Winson Peng Kari Noe nature.com/articles/s4358… 🧵(5/11)

New in Scientific American : Is misinformation *really* a problem? Our take: Exposure to "fake news" is rare, but misinformedness is common- b/c of misleading claims from elites & mainstream news. Solutions must take this into account! w David G. Rand scientificamerican.com/article/combat… 1/N

Now out in PNAS Nexus 🏷️ We show that people are less likely to believe and share headlines labeled as AI-generated – even when true or human made – because they assume the headlines have been entirely written by AI with no human supervision 🤖 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti… 🔓

Interested in pursuing a PhD in Communication MSU Department of Communication ? Plan to attend one of our upcoming virtual information sessions!

Fun Chicago AI & Art Event (I'm participating in) -- Potential, Problems, and Predictions (University of Chicago, KPTC Room 106 - 5720 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637) 12:30 – 1:30 PM Saturday October 5, 2024 What are the opportunities and challenges of AI for art and music?

My new PNAS paper with Daniel Romero ! 😎 With open data everywhere, how can we creatively unlock its potential for impactful innovation? We show that unusual combinations of datasets lead to more impactful discoveries, yet even simple combos remain rare. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🚀 Can language agents automate data-driven scientific discovery? Not yet. But we're making strides. Introducing **ScienceAgentBench**: a new benchmark to rigorously evaluate language agents on 102 tasks from 44 peer-reviewed publications across 4 scientific disciplines. (1/10)

🤖🧠NOW OUT IN PNAS🧠🤖 Language models show many surprising behaviors. E.g., they can count 30 items more easily than 29 In Embers of Autoregression, we explain such effects by analyzing what LMs are trained to do pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Major updates since the preprint! 1/n

Job season! NUS Communications and New Media we are looking for outstanding young colleagues to join us as prestigious PYP (Assistant Prof). Areas: Media Studies, Visual Communication, Science Communication, Cultural Studies, Computational Communication. Deadline: Nov 30 2024. fass.nus.edu.sg/cnm/nus-presid…

OPEN RANK POSITIONS.UW-Madison LSC is excited to invite applications from across many #scicomm fields for this interdisciplinary search in AI and agricultural and natural systems. Deadline: Nov 1st jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/ai-to-enh…

Is Partisan Selective Exposure an American Peculiarity? A Comparative Study of News Browsing Behaviors in the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong - Tetsuro Kobayashi, Zhifan Zhang, Ling Liu, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

🚨New in JEP:G APA Journals🚨 Why do ppl preferentially reciprocate follows by co-partisans online? In a Twitter field exp & survey we find: -Both content *and* social prefs drive co-party tie-making -Distinct roles for in-party pref & out-party dispref dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge000…