OpeningUpMinds

The twitter account of the EPSRC Opening Up Minds project

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

1/2 The Opening Up Minds project starts today, bringing together computer scientists, computational linguists, psychologists and philosophers from @OUComputing, @Cambridge_CL, @sheffielduni and the Cambridge Lab of Toshiba Research Europe .

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

... and further recent @OpeningUpMinds work by @LottyBrand, @TomStafford and Daniel Brady on a behavioural measure of open-mindedness: the 'Ideological Turing Test' (ITT) https://t.co/vjdtKG4Tnb

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

Wonder whether Wizards and Conversational Agents can open up minds? Find out about the data, metrics and experiments at today's #ACL2023NLP #SICon2023 poster presented by @YoumnaFarag
https://t.co/KF4mMlrvFe

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

Full 'Findings at EMNLP' paper on Opening Up Minds with Argumentative Dialogues here: https://t.co/O5689YuQJJ ...

@YoumnaFarag @LottyBrand, Jacopo Amidei, Svetlana Stoyanchev, @vlachosnlp, @tomstafford, @logicmachines

[Lotty Brand @LottyBrand]

📢New Preprint!📢 We've developed a behavioural measure of open-mindedness: the 'Ideological Turing Test,' (ITT). 🧵
https://t.co/tqeB4gU3DW
with @tomstafford & Daniel Brady from the wonderful @RSE_Sheffield

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

Wizards and ArguBots have the power to open up minds: a new dataset and experiments with dialogue models. #AI #NLP #dialogue https://t.co/O5689YuQJJ

[Lotty Brand @LottyBrand]

Of course our @OpeningUpMinds project was wonderfully summarised by @logicMachines - watch this space for conference papers/preprints etc coming soon esp. re the "Ideological Turing Test" 😏 @YoumnaH also had a demo of our bot to show

[Lotty Brand @LottyBrand]

This was a fantastic workshop- so many fascinating people, projects and datasets! Some highlights, tho you should definitely look up every single participant in the program as they were all brilliant! 👇🏻

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

'These results suggest that the attitudes of the vaccine hesitant are modifiable with exposure to in-depth, trustworthy and engaging dialogues.' by @LottyBrand @tomstafford from the Opening Up Minds team https://t.co/39JMGAxBVf

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

Great to see our video by the Opening Up Minds team shown today as part of British Science Week. https://t.co/yF88cz44G6 #BSW22 @OU_STEM

[Lotty Brand @LottyBrand]

Our results suggest that the attitudes and intentions of the vaccine hesitant are modifiable with exposure to
in-depth, trustworthy and engaging dialogues @OpeningUpMinds 💉💉💬🗨️💬🗨️

[Lotty Brand @LottyBrand]

Critical feedback extremely welcome and encouraged!! 👇👇 Please, kind scrupulous scientists, point out our flaws so that we may improve before submission 🙏. I'm Quite Tired now, Merry Holidays everyone ✌️🎄

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

Opening up research! - Contributions from @LottyBrand
and @tomstafford of the @OpeningUpMinds team to the "House of Common Science and Technology Committee inquiry on reproducibility and research integrity" https://t.co/gFbjNClwX2 and https://t.co/JPbOmEKryX

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

At ~2:28, interesting recommendations for what social media platforms should encourage their users to do: "(...) consider the language they use, to have an open mind, to be tolerant (...)"!

[Lotty Brand @LottyBrand]

Spent all afternoon yesterday training wizards. 🪄
This morning I am managing a team of five wizards simultaneously 🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️
Last year I had no idea how the Wizard of Oz had anything to do with computer science , but , if you know you know 🙃🖥️🧪👩‍🔬🧙‍♂️
@OpeningUpMinds

[Truth and Trust Online @TTOConference]

📢Registration for Truth and Trust Online 2021 is now open! https://t.co/JPsKTnRgxF Looking forward to seeing you in October!

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

Excellent article by @AgnesCallard resonating with the aims of the @OpeningUpMinds project.

[Lotty Brand @LottyBrand]

(I was inspired to listen to the podcast after reading @tomstafford 's blog, and chuffed to realise it's related to the project we're working on with @OpeningUpMinds ) So much fascinating work going on in this area, struggling to keep a lid on it! https://t.co/SUOoq6j100

[Lotty Brand @LottyBrand]

I've only just discovered "Across The Red Line" @BBCRadio4 and, wow. It starts out like any debate, you're furiously disagreeing/agreeing, but then the magic happens. There is a *moment.* It's kind of like therapy for people who're ideologically opposed? https://t.co/5FPrizqdI2

[Arosha Bandara 💙 #ucuRising ✊🏽 @arosha]

@OpenUniversity @bbcideas Combine these tips with some digital thinking tools to further boost their effectiveness. You can find out more by completing the @OUFreeLearning course developed by my @OUComputing colleague, Paul Piwek (@logicMachines)

https://t.co/9oJ1M5CLy4

[OpeningUpMinds @OpeningUpMinds]

Nice video resonating very much with the aims of the opening up minds project.

[The Open University @OpenUniversity]

We have access to so much information at the click of a button, but not all of what's out there is quite what it seems.

From being aware of confirmation bias to checking your sources, here are 5 simple ways to sharpen your critical thinking:

https://t.co/NZTJmQ1Pda

@bbcideas