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jbigham

@jbigham@hci.social

Professor of HCII and LTI at CMU SCS. Manage human-centered ML at . #hci, #a11y, #dialog, #nlp. AI/ML. #yinzfluencer of 4 kids. aspire to exceed my attention-seeking pattern regurgitating machine colleagues.

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alignment sounds like if a yinzer who used to work on self-driving cars moved over to LLM safety …

"ya, its yer alignment that's off"

jbigham, to random
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did y'all vote for in the @sigchi elections?

https://www.acm.org/elections/sigs/vote

jbigham,
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@andresmh @sigchi huh, that’s weird! I voted a couple of weeks ago somehow!

jbigham, to random
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nvidia -- who needs gold, all we need are shovels and pickaxes

jbigham, to random
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a year and a half in… it's kind of disappointing that nobody was able to just copy Twitter and not be Elon. that's all we ever really wanted.

jbigham,
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@wollman it's not just that though. mastadon has a bunch of specific ideas about things, which could maybe even be good, but they make the product worse.

jbigham,
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@andresmh i guess, i tried early when it was just on the phone, and haven't gone back to try it again

jbigham,
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@andresmh also, there's too much bleedthrough from facebook/ig… i don't want there to be a connection

jbigham,
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@andresmh bluesky never quite worked properly, and mastodon on purpose doesn't work properly haha

jbigham,
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@andresmh maybe that, but i think people overplay that a lot -- basically, all the things they do on purpose, e.g., no algorithmic feed, no QTs, etc. just makes it feel less fluid, less engaging, etc.

mattmay, to random
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What's blowing me away about this Google AI search thing is that they 100% red-teamed this internally, found a bunch of bullshit like we're finding, and somebody decided to ship it anyway.

jbigham,
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@mattmay i think this is a feature design problem -- somebody said, let's build an AI that overviews the google results you get, and nobody stopped to think why that was a bad idea. even once they saw it. lol. and, yet, that's not even quite true -- they do block some stuff, so they knew it was a problem, but shipped it anyway. for what it's worth, they could solve this with design, "the internet says… " would be a good start. haha

jbigham, to random
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is the delve thing real? because i'm reading a paper and it's delving into a lot of things… like a lot.

jbigham, to random
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I'm kind of disappointed that the NCAA back pay settlement for D1 athletes only goes back to 2016 -- was my back of the pack performance in D1 track and cc in 2003 worth NOTHING??

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5510354/2024/05/23/house-v-ncaa-settlement-votes/

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i had almost entirely forgotten about bluesky, until they emailed me today --

hcil_umd, to random
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Our second panel of the day is all about AI and teams. The panel features Susan Campbell, Marine Carpuat, Stephanie Valencia, and Susannah Paletz. To read more about the work on teams and organizations, check out OTTRS: https://ottrs.ischool.umd.edu #hcil2024

jbigham,
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@bwaber @andresmh @susannahpaletz @hcil_umd @merrie @juhokim @msbernst you're right, except, we are contending with lots of framing of AI as partners/collaborators/etc, i agree the tool framing is best … also, hey my former student Stephanie was on that panel!

infinimatt, to random
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When given a choice I always prefer the slow danger

jbigham,
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@infinimatt fast danger, get it over with

jbigham, to random
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i talked to a friend who was like, "i have a chip startup", and since it's pittsburgh i had to confirm whether silicon or potato. but, it was silicon. and, i was like, you can just like do that? i'm very software silo'd.

jbigham,
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@marcua i hope so, then you could say, unlike nvidia, you get all that GPU and a bag of chips!

jbigham,
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@wollman @marcua that sounds like a great opportunity! people will endlessly compete and eventually tire on GPUs, but people are gonna need potato chips forever!

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Generative AI will allow so many people to be creative, like designing your product to be just like a character from someone else's film!

jbigham,
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@danhon AI is going to take our jobs! like, literally, they're going to take scarlett johansson's job that she declined.

jbigham, to random
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all the #chi2024 papers are now available, open access (free download) --
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3613904

imma read so fast and so much that the digital library thinks i'm a bot! (which really isn't that much, it's detection for this has really low precision)

jbigham,
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@pg my context window is like a trillion tokens, but mostly i just hallucinate

sommer, to random
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I don’t glory in “no sleep til dub dub,” but also, for some of us, it’s definitely real. The amount of work at this time of year is truly staggering. It’s one of the things that brought me back to this company. It reminds me of putting on a show (and I guess in some ways it is)…everyone is coming together to create something bigger than the sum of us. It’s exiting! And exhausting! 💜

jbigham,
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@sommer good luck!

jbigham, to random
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the nice thing about ML alignment is once you know your problem, who your thing is for, what context it'll be used in… ML alignment can a/b test the shit out of optimizing your thing for those things

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it's kind of amazing that the new iPad is more powerful than most laptops, with a 10-core GPU and what not… https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-chip/

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