Fledgling PhD. Areas of research: Ethical AI/NLP. Interested in space, sci-fi and everything cyberpunk. He/ They.
Joined March 2015
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Surprised but also genuinely happy to be recognised as one of the many outstanding reviewers of this cycle at #EMNLP2024. It’s been a such pleasure to discuss with authors and be of help!
We're kicking off the awards session at #EMNLP2024 by announcing our (many) **Outstanding Reviewers**!
If you are around in #EMNLP2024, come see me talk about our work on discovering minority voices in datasets (arxiv.org/abs/2407.14259).
I’ll be on the Ethics, Bias, and Fairness slot in the Ashe auditorium today, but also very open for chats throughout the conference!
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Thrilled to share that our paper "Language is Scary when Over-Analyzed: Unpacking Implied Misogynistic Reasoning with Argumentation Theory-Driven Prompts" has been accepted at the main track of #EMNLP2024 😁
@_albarron_ @tommaso_caselli
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Really pleased to say this has been accepted at #EMNLP2024 main
So very, very proud to share our new paper “Voices in a Crowd: Searching for Clusters of Unique Perspectives” (arXiv:2407.14259), a novel framework on how to organically find clusters of unique voices (perspectives) in datasets. 🧵 for summary, co-authors @amitkparekh_ @sinantie
Finally, here is an example of an inter-minority voice, a combination of two minority labels, republican and highly educated. Here opinions consistently agreed or disagreed with more technical statements indicative of specialised knowledge and/or researched opinions.
This project was both a ridiculous amount of work and fun. The implications are also pretty massive for the field of embodied multimodal AI, give it a read!
What if your multimodal model succeeds when given nonsensical instructions? What if it even succeeds without being told explicitly what to do? Have we finally achieved AGI?
We answer at least two of those questions w/ @NikVits @ale_suglia @sinantie (🧵for more)
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GPT-5 confirmed to confidently try to complete 11 tasks simultaneously then email you 6 months later explaining it’s had a mental breakdown
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I am really excited to be giving a TEDx Youth talk on online Gender-Based Violence and AI/NLP. Thanks a lot, #TEDxYouthStGeorgesEdinburgh for hosting. Special thanks to @GerrardPoppy and @NikVits for the discussions to prepare the talk! #VoicesOfTheFuture #tedxstge.
🌟📣 Announcing our #TEDxYouthStGeorgesEdinburgh #VoicesOfTheFuture 2024 speaker lineup! We're excited to welcome Yannis Konstas to the #TEDxYouth stage.💻Follow TEDx Youth St Georges Edinburgh on Facebook for more updates 👉👉 ow.ly/xRqC50QOrfI #IdeasWorthSpreading #TEDx
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Me: Can I get reimbursed for this?
University: Yes, but you'll need to jump through several unpredictable hoops, confront multiple technical hitches, and we will lose your request. It will be the most difficult process you've ever experienced. Shall I send you the forms?
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The older I get, the more strongly I feel that the hard problems in Computer Science are not what we Can compute but what we Should compute, and that CS students would be infinitely better served by taking a single Sociology class than they are by taking yet another Math class.