@collidingwords

Conversation design, former Director of CxD at Sensely, conversational AI, linguistics PhD. https://xitter.cf/t.co/uhxEkS0d38

 Oakland, CA
linkedin.com/in/josephctyler/
Joined July 2008
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It's fun to enter the same prompt in #ChatGPT and #YouChat and see what you get
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For example, I asked for sci fi book recommendations, and ChatGPT gave a structured intro, enumerated five-item list with elaborations, and a conclusion. A very structured response. YouChat just wrote in prose a bunch of examples. I actually preferred the YouChat one, simpler
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What are the best books/papers/blog posts/etc... about #NLU (natural language understanding)?
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It's neat to read about early work in NLU (was just reading Terry Winograd's dissertation) and then to think about how it's used today in tech.
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XP =
2%Experiment
76%Experience
13%Something else
9%What’s XP?
45 votes • Final results
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Interesting! Experience is the clear winner. But I’ve definitely heard experiment too.
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A little over the top for unsubscribing from a mailing list I never signed up for: “No more calls, no more texts - we’re breaking up.”
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Google sheets has a new sweet data cleanup and stats feature for super quick insights!
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I think Twitter puts ads at the top of me feed now instead of in second position
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linguisticscareercast.com/po… I was on a podcast! This summer @laurelst and I chatted about my career path, getting into #linguistics, then moving into tech and #conversationdesign. And now it’s released!

Episode #10: Joseph Tyler - Linguistics Careercast

"Why am I doing all this free labor?" Joseph Tyler is is a conversational designer at Uber, where he designs, builds, and delivers multi-modal conversational interactions for mobile, web and chat...

linguisticscareercast.com
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I wonder if any #linguists have studied when people say they can't pronounce someone's name. It happens a lot in sports media, and it's interesting when people try, or just forgo it claiming they can't, or provide an alternate name, or something else.
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Which do you prefer? 'up to 10% off on eligible orders' 'up to 10% off eligible orders' Is the other one okay too?
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My conference talk about cross team collaboration, from the #voice22 conference, is available online! I share a few thoughts on how to overcome silos. vimeo.com/765038521
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Whoa, google now says there aren’t great matches for my search. Hadn’t seen this before.
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I find it annoying to get autocorrect squiggles in eg Google docs for things that I meant to write that way.
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Messages on iPhone shows texts from iOS and Android, but iMessages on mac doesn't. What's the best solution to be able to text everyone from a mac?
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I just wrote “You don’t happen to be going, are you?” Does this sound grammatical to you? Is there an alternative that’s better?
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It’s funny when I unsubscribe from marketing email lists and the page responds with “Thanks!” You’re welcome.
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I texted “mac and cheese” to a friend and iPhone corrects to Mac. No, I meant mac.
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Ugh when help docs reference other things I don’t know, and then need to get help with
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