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This month is the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, "Code to Joy". I'm happy to announce it's also the month of the release of the audiobook version of the book, which I narrate. Enjoy! @mitpress amazon.com/dp/B0DKG4KPWY
I got to help shape this document, providing guidance about how AI researchers collaborate globally. It was unveiled at the UN General Assembly yesterday by the Secretary of State.
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You'd think that, since I'm working in government, my id card would count as "government id". It does not. Very confusing when I tried to get through security at the Pentagon. (My Rhode Island drivers's license worked.)
I wanted to better understand how language models can help with decision-making and planning and worked with a great team to produce this nifty piece of work!
Ever wonder if LLMs use tools🛠️ the way we ask them?
We explore LLMs using classical planners: are they writing *correct* PDDL (planning) problems?
Say hi👋 to Planetarium🪐, a benchmark of 132k natural language & PDDL problems.
📜 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.03321
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Great topic, great speakers!
Submit to our #RSS2024 workshop on “Robotic Tasks and How to Specify Them? Task Specification for General-Purpose Intelligent Robots” by June 12th.
Join our discussion on what constitutes various task specifications for robots, in what scenarios they are most effective and more!
In my book, "Code to Joy", I include a Marvel-movie-like post credit scene teasing a future in which AI capabilities are available on an Arduino chip. I just learned that life is imitating art! theverge.com/2024/6/4/241708…
Dear Schrodinger, the cat's alive! nytimes.com/2024/04/29/us/am…
You probably know that an escape code is something that tells a computer not to interpret something literally, but to execute the command following it. But did you ever notice that "escape code" has "cape cod" RIGHT INSIDE it??
Over my career, I've served on 53 Ph.D. dissertation committees. Five of the students have been named "Michael". There was also a "Mykel" and a "Michail". Homophily, you've gone too far.
Speaker at a talk just said that researchers who don't engage with the current work on large scale neural models will be dinosaurs. I'm wondering if I get to pick which kind of dinosaur before I have to decide.
Kinda cool... I haven't seen the book in the wild yet, but apparently it's even on display in some places!
A glowing review of my book (@mitpress) from one of my science communication heroes! (I went to one of @stevenstrogatz 's book events on the notion of infinity and he encouraged me to write a book, and I did!)
I'm confused by this 23-and-me health survey question:
During the last month, how often ... Has your memory been as good as it usually is? (A) Never, (B) Some of the time, (C), About half the time, (D) Most of the time, (E) Always.
Isn't it usually as good as it usually is?
Airline installs chatbot. Customer gets bad information from it. Customer asks for refund. Airline says "the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions" (!). Court says no. (Whew.) Airline makes refund and turns off chatbot. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
Discussion of "deceptive" chatbots with Jennifer Strong @shiftshow_ai : podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… .
Dave and I interviewed Rich Sutton! computingup.com/rich-sutton-…
Good news: AI Chatbots haven't increased cheating in HS, yay! Bad news: Maybe that's because 70% of students were already cheating... uh oh.
nytimes.com/2023/12/13/techn…
Interview from my friends at GT about my book.
.@GTOMSCS Lecturer Explains 'Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Programming'
"We — all of us — need to be more active in telling these machines what we want them to do. The good news is that #AI [. . .] can help meet us part way."
-Michael Littman
News: cc.gatech.edu/news/omscs-lec…
ALT Micheal Littman of Brown University