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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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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/

jbigham, to random
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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!

danhon, to random
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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 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

jbigham, to random
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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/

jbigham, to random
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apparently some people in my hometown on facebook are mad about the school having received two electric school buses for free. this is why i'm not on facebook anymore.

trochee, to random
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Kernighan's Law II: Revenge of the Debugged

(I agree, @shac !)
https://ioc.exchange/@shac/112391029055067523

jbigham,
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@trochee @shac totally depends what you’re doing, definitely codex is amazing for prototyping

jbigham, to random
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I’m thinking of putting out a yearly report on my toddler, modeled after these LLM expert papers — like there will be a chart on the delta of her math performance from year 3 to year 4, some dubious comparison to gpt4, etc… this is a good idea right?

dave_andersen, to random
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Well, this will be an interesting way to throw away money. :-) I decided to invest (a small amount) in kagi.com - the search engine I've been using since last year.

I remain very happy having switched, but I still !g (have it direct to google) for geo-related queries, something I hope they'll improve upon in the longer term. I love that I can downrank specific sites like pinterest or geeksforgeeks that annoy the hell out of me.

Most early-stage investments lose, but I'm intrigued to watch. 🤓

jbigham,
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@dave_andersen and, if the whole subscription-based small search thing doesn't work out, they can always sell their index to an AI wannabe! :)

jbigham,
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@dave_andersen but, they'd have to grow really big right? i feel like i heard that one reason why macs had so many fewer viruses traditionally is because they were second in the market and so who would bother! (and of course much more secure better products ;P)

jbigham,
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@dave_andersen i wonder what queries they send to apple…

jbigham, to random
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next Thursday at 3:30pm PT, I'll be watching @reladner talk about 20 years of @AccessCompUW, and their work to increase the participation and success of people with disabilities in computing fields -- lots still to do, but remarkably successful :: https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/details?id=3343

jbigham, to random
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I’m mostly convinced that LLMs raise the floor, but do they raise the ceiling? I don’t think I’ve seen anything compelling suggesting they do

jbigham,
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which makes sense given they operate over the statistically probable …

jbigham, to random
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the main intellectual value i add to design is that i'm a pessimist who is so pessimistic that i'm even pessimistic about my own pessimism

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