SOCIOLOGISTS: we are writing an annual review article about word embeddings in sociology. If you have a published article or draft manuscript you've written using word embeddings (including LLMs like BERT/GPT3/...), please drop me a line with a URL so we can include it.

Exhibit 2134 on why it's important to work closely with domain experts when doing ML + [any domain] work 👇

A few thoughts on joining ARR, and what I'd like to try to get done:
hackingsemantics.xyz/2024/joining-a…

📢 Looking for a PhD student to start in Sep 2024! Applications due April 15

This project is about LLM competence in interpreting prompts and responding to them:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…
If you're at eaclmeeting, you can catch Rob van der Goot who will co-supervise this project!

📢 There's still time to send your short paper with insightful negative results to insights-workshop.github.io! The deadline was extended to March 17, 2024.

🥳🍾 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.

The Mistral-Microsoft partnership is having a political fallout: Green MEPs sent the Commission a letter raising questions on possible conflicts of interests and transparency issues about Mistral's lobbying on the #AIAct . A 🧵1/10

This is a mind-blowing announcement. Mistral AI, the French company that has been fighting tooth and nail to water down the #AIAct 's foundation model rules, is partnering up with Microsoft. So much for 'give us a fighting chance against Big Tech'. A 🧵1/8
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/mic…

Would you like to think through the societal issues in/caused-by the tech we're building? With some real social scientists? Come work in Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science, they're amazing!

The 'AI ethics people don't do anything useful' is truly a mainstream view in tech. Look at all this totally organic backlash at MMitchell! 🤣

This platform is dying...

🚀 Thrilled to unveil our latest research: 'Google Scholar is manipulatable'. We dive deep into the alarming reality of citation manipulation, showing how easily fake citations flood Scholar profiles. Our findings shed crucial light on academic integrity.
arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

You no longer need an invitation to create an account on bluesky, the decentralized social network. 🦋 Follow us there: bsky.app/profile/archiv…

🏆 I am a #VillumYoungInvestigator 2024! Tons of gratitude to VELUX FONDEN Science at VILLUM for supporting my moonshot towards more transparent generative AI systems.

I'll be looking for two PhD students & postdoc soon to join IT-Universitetet NLPnorth, stay tuned!

📢 #NLProc job alert: I'm looking for a #compling postdoc to work on an ambitious generalization benchmark, in collaboration with Tal Linzen. Could start as early as April. If you'd like to spend a year in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 - please reach out! ([email protected])
RT appreciated🙏