Mark Riedl

I completed the assignment

For those making the #twittermigration : the Debirdify tool has been helpful in locating and re-following your community across the fediverse https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about #ChatGPT and academic assessment and why I am not so concerned about it (at the college level). It's not that ChatGPT is bad for education. It's that our education system is built upon a basis wherein we do assessment wrong.

What @hoffman@hci.social writes in his blog below comes close to how I think of things (thanks for saving me a lot of time writing my thoughts down!)

http://write.guyhoffman.com/why-i-dont-care-if-students-use-gpt

John Oliver's piece on ChatGPT is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqa8Zo2XWc4

Shout out to all the people in my neighborhood that put out 15-foot skeletons for their yards this Halloween. I too am a fan of the Ninth House. May the Locked Tomb remain shut forever. May the rock never be rolled away. #GideonTheNinth

Well, I've finally done it. I've traveled to another continent to give an invited talk and forgot to book my hotel.

It was only a matter of time.

Bari Italy seems nice

No one asked but...

Bari, Italy is a neat little city. It would be 1000% times better if they made it more walker and bike friendly. It's side-walks are so skinny, all for the sake of cars.

And for gods-sake get rid of all the motorcycles. It's a small city, you can get by with an ebike.

Sincerely, the person who got woken up multiple times at night by noisy-ass motorcycles.

I am bridging my BlueSky account to @markriedl.bsky.social

AI Doomers are going to be so insufferable now

Publisher, Tor, comes under fire for using AI generated art for the cover of an upcoming novel.

The cover designer paid shutterstock for a piece of art that was later determined to be AI generated. This image was then significantly edited (including correcting for AI generation mistakes like a person with a missing leg)

https://www.themarysue.com/tor-faces-major-backlash-for-purchasing-ai-art-for-upcoming-novel-from-bestselling-auth/

Not sure why I felt compelled to do this

Starting to pay attention to the WGA strike. One of many concerns is AI. It goes something like this:

1. AI won't replace writers.
2. AI will give producers an excuse to re-categorize writers as "rewriters". Script rewriters is a real job that pays substantially less than script writing.
3. One possible outcome is that producers use LLMs to "write" a first draft, and then hire rewriters.
4. This will likely produce the same amount of work (or more) but for less pay.

https://defector.com/the-computers-are-coming-for-the-wrong-jobs

We made a spiderweb tunnel outside our house.

We didn’t actually expect to catch a kid

What do we do with it?

Look who's here on sigmoid.social! @laramar@sigmoid.social and @rajammanabrolu@sigmoid.social!

Lara Martin and Raj Ammanabrolu will both be on the job market (separately).

❖ Lara works has the prestigious CI Fellowship and is a postdoc at UPenn and works on neuro-symbolic AI for story generation and interactive storytelling.

❖ Raj is a postdoc at AI2 and works on NLP and reinforcement learning. He has SOTA on interactive text world environments.

You should definitely give them jobs.

AI-generated high-five!

GenX (my generation) sucks

.@laramar@sigmoid.social continues to rock when it comes to LMs and D&D https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/19/chatgpt_dnd_dm/

Look at this charming little lamp @rajammanabrolu@sigmoid.social found while at EMNLP in Abu Dabai. It goes perfectly with the AI generated story I used as a running example in my dissertation work (journal version here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3841)

Hey faculty hiring committees! Are @rajammanabrolu@sigmoid.social and @laramar@sigmoid.social on your short lists?

@afeinman@wandering.shop it was a gift. I’ve been told it comes from Amazon.