Breaking the metaphorical glass ceiling in the construction industry requires special precautions.
AI professor. Director, Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL) at Carnegie Mellon. Head of Technical AI Engagement, Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/
Breaking the metaphorical glass ceiling in the construction industry requires special precautions.
in denial?
continued
"my plumber complained this is not a pipe"
more logic
If there are only two barbers in town, do you go to the one whose *customers* have good-looking or bad-looking hair?
(2/2)
From Independence of Clones to Composition Consistency: A Hierarchy of Barriers to Strategic Nomination
W 1:30pm session
This paper led by Emin Berker is especially relevant to the evaluation of AI, where it is easy to create very similar variants of a given AI system (a "clone").
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16973
(1/2) EC'25 has started! Two papers with coauthors from our FOCAL lab:
Learning and Computation of Phi-Equilibria at the Frontier of Tractability
W 8:30am session
Led by Brian Zhang and Ioannis Anagnostides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18582
"how can you tell time in a closed room with a broken clock on the wall"
Congratulations to Brian Zhang on a successful defense and an amazing dissertation! Further great things to come as he goes on to his postdoc with Costis Daskalakis.
Turing quote on £50 note: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be"
Looking forward to the 75 years of Nash equilibrium conference! I'll speak on game theory for AI agents.
https://www.mfo.ac.uk/event/nash75-oxford
more logic
@rowat_c AI Overview (just triggered by search in the browser with Google)
honestly this one feels kind of right
"While less likely between a husband and wife, it's possible there's something more than friendship involved."
a useful tip as you are getting ready to go out this weekend
please don't try at home
Apparently the point of the Tortoise and the Hare was simply that turtles are just awesome distance runners.
Sometimes you have to wonder if AI Overview is just too deep for us mere mortals...
ghosts part 2 -- I figured this model wouldn't go astray on the ghosts example from before, but in fact it produced some... interesting advice (that I have yet to try).