Many AI safety methods rely on AIs to provide oversight and supervision. The fact that models are interacting with one another alone should be a safety concern. We provide some initial evidence to support this intuition. More to follow soon!

Clever SRS algorithm optimizer paper uses BERT-based similarity metric on item text to better approximate forgetting curves for new items (via Jarrett Ye)

Paper URL: arxiv.org/abs/2402.12291

Via this very interesting SRS benchmarking post: reddit.com/r/Anki/comment…

Researchers often have to ask for recommendation letters for visa/job applications, etc.

I wrote a script that allows you to find who cites your papers frequently to create a list of potential letter writers: github.com/neubig/researc…

Hope it's helpful, improvements are welcome!

📢 I'm recruiting a postdoc at UMD
🗓️ Starting in 2024
🖥️🙋 Topics related to human-AI interaction
🔜 Apply by May 31, but earlier if possible!
🤑 $75-$80k+benefits, unencumbered (ie not 'big project') funding

Link to full post and form for applications in thread.

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Sadly I won’t make it to #EACL2024 in Malta this year but Wenyan Li will be there to talk about Data Curation for Image Captioning on Monday at 1400 in Marie Louise 2

If you're at #EACL2024 I will be leading a Birds of a Feather session on Question Answering at 16:00 in the Reading Room. Maybe we'll even get some questions answered.

This is the most I have agreed with an in-office Republican in 2024.

'As a police officer, I don't like it.'

'As a drunk driver, I don't like it.'

'As a traffic signal sales rep, I don't like it.'

It is a roundabout.
Here's a little 🧵

🥳🍾 It's official - I'm a tenured associate professor! This job is incredible luck and privilege, and IT-Universitetet is an amazing place to work at!!!

More PhD student and postdoc positions will be announced soon.

Researchers Jordan Boyd-Graber & Neha Srikanth of UMD CLIP Lab are leading the computational component of a multidisciplinary project that provides vital information about maternal & infant health. Watch the impact their research is having on new moms & their babies. youtu.be/R1fCty5KbXs?si…

This is a CT scan of Heinz’s new ketchup cap. It represents a $1.2 million engineering investment over 8 years. Here’s why it’s significant… 🧵

📢📢Are you studying vocab for the #GRE / #GMAT and want to earn up to $50 while doing so? Come join our research study with KARL, a flashcard tool which now uses model-generated mnemonic devices to make vocab learning more engaging! 💡 📚 Details below👇

Can we enhance flashcard scheduling by harnessing the untapped textual content of flashcards?🤔

Excited to share our work on developing KARL, an NLP-powered adaptive learning tool! 🚀📚

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.12291…
Live Demo: karl.qanta.org

But they're BOTH so OLD! Gandalf can barely remember his passwords and even forgot that people called him Gandalf (yikes), while Saruman betrayed the Free Peoples of middle-earth and led an insurrection that stormed Helm's Deep. You can see how they're equally bad choices.

Has someone at AMD checked to make sure that whoever they have in charge of software is not secretly on the payroll of NVIDIA?

One of the best pieces of advice I embodied from my advisor is “smell the data”. You pay for it in compute and other ways, if you don’t do it, and from my experience working with others, most don’t. That’s one of the reasons why we have overly complicated archs, objectives, and…

Are Large Language Models good at language? A recent paper by Dentella, Günther, & Leivada (DGL) argues no: LLMs can't distinguish grammatical sentences. We re-analyzed their data and found that LLMs are highly accurate and capture fine-grained variation in human judgments. 1/10

We've extended the 'best consideration date' for our CS instructional faculty call to 16. Feb, please consider applying! (Masters required, PhD nice if you want to teach advanced courses.)

Lots of openings!

ejobs.umd.edu/postings/116061

yes, this is actually what's happening. republicans know that the american electorate want the border closed, and they're specifically blocking the current bill in order to make biden look bad for the upcoming election. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

The Supreme Court will hold argument in the Trump disqualification case next Thursday, answering whether they follow the rule of law (if they agree with me) or are just politicians in robes (if they disagree with me).