Spoiler: his interior (convertible roof, leather-trimmed, heated) is provably non-empty (hot girlfriend, passenger seat).
Anyway, I just need to pass this Optimization Fundamentals exam.
Me: Manually deriving KKT conditions to find the minimum distance between a point on an ellipse and a point on a parabola, running a quadratic penalty method because the constraints are nonlinear, and backtracking line search just so my gradient descent actually converges.
My Reels feed: "Comment 'PROMPT' to buy my $99 AI Masterclass on how to make ChatGPT write a polite email to your boss!"
...and he somehow drives a Porsche 911 while I'm out here checking whether my feasible set has a non-empty interior.
⏰ DEADLINE EXTENDED — WOCHAT 2026
We've extended the paper submission deadline to June 7th, 2026 (AoE) to give more researchers the chance to submit!
WOCHAT 2026 Workshop on Chatbots and Agentic Technologies Co-located with SIGDIAL 2026 @ Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Project Mariner is what I'm most excited about.
I've been saying for months that AI agents are the next frontier. Not just chatbots or image generators - but AIs that can actually DO things for you.
Navigate the web. Complete tasks. Get real work done.
PhD researcher building SOTA models: $45k/year.
ML engineer fine-tuning LLMs: $200k/year.
Senior engineer fixing prod bugs at 3 a.m.: $500k/year.
Build an open-source lib: $0.
Build a SaaS around it: $100k/month.
upside-down reward system ?
humans can detect deepfake speech accurately only 73% of the time, no significant difference between English and Mandarin speakers.
repeated listening had minimal impact on participants' detection accuracy,
emphasized the need for improved automated deepfake detectors