Jon May

Research Associate Professor, USC
Director, Center for Useful Techniques Enhancing Language Applications Based on Natural And Meaningful Evidence

[Jaspreet Ranjit @jaspreetranjit_]

Our work “Are We Automating the Joy Out of Work? Designing AI to Augment Work, Not Meaning” was presented @TEDxBerlin1✨
tldr; AI is targeting the parts of our jobs we love the most. We’re not heading toward mass unemployment, rather mass demoralization

📄https://t.co/Q13lWfbsB5

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

@OwenRambow @davidweichiang @ReviewAcl more like #arrrghreviewing amirite?

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

@yoavgo you're not just giving feedback, you're holding them to task. It matters. It's leadership. And it shows.

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

@yoavgo @togelius sure, 99/100 times data wins over model/algorithm but every 1/100 you get a big boost from feedforward or attention or transformer. it's still worth playing around and occasionally finding those knock points.

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

@nbcsnl @Harry_Styles @PaulSimonMusic I 🟧 so hard. It's a total 🚡🚡🚡 and 🔛 like the break of dawn

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

@nbcsnl 🚡

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

happy birthday to chatgpt, for those who celebrate.

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

I'm sure my retweet will double the traffic that @sunjiao123sun_ got from @JeffDean's but independent of that I'm very proud of your tireless efforts to really make these things work!

[Jiao Sun @sunjiao123sun_]

In the past two months, our small Webapp Coding team have been cooking hard to make Gemini great at WedDev, and we are thrilled to claim the 👑!

Yes, we saw your enthusiasm — pelican riding a bike, game controller, please keep trying and sending your best WebDev prompts to our the way! We love them!

Besides Webdev Arena, we also achieved #1 on Design Arena across categories: website gen, game gen, ui component gen etc!

Website lovers, designers, we can’t wait to hear your feedback!

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

Alex is great; if you're into NLP and computational journalism you should definitely work with him! Also my experiences in Minneapolis have been very positive.

[Alex Spangher @AlexanderSpangh]

✨ Very overdue update:

I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in CS at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Fall 2026. I will be recruiting PhD students!!

Please help me spread the word! [Thread] 1/n

[Tenghao Huang @TenghaoHuang45]

Proud to collaborate with @soshsihao , @muhao_chen , @jonathanmay , @ylongqi , @mengtingwan, @peizNLP：）
Let’s push LLMs beyond clarifying what’s said, but toward discovering what’s not yet considered.

#LLM #AI #RL #ConversationalAI #Microsoft #NLPResearch

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

great work by my student Katy. Hire her!

[Katy Felkner @katyfelkner]

📢 New Preprint! 📢
https://t.co/WkzBsrDWau

TL;DR: textual entailment and token probability behave very differently as bias evaluation metrics, even on the exact same bias definitions.

Also, I'm looking for summer 2026 research internships in responsible AI - please reach out!

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

I'm very proud to present @tenghaohuang45's work at ACL. Come say hi!

[Tenghao Huang @TenghaoHuang45]

🎉 Excited to share our ACL 2025 paper:
🤖R2D2: Remembering, Replaying and Dynamic Decision Making with a Reflective Agentic Memory 🧠

📄 Paper: https://t.co/UvhLzJs3xN
📍Poster: Hall 4/5, Session 4 Wednesday, July 30 11:00-12:30

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[Tenghao Huang @TenghaoHuang45]

🎉 Excited to share our ACL 2025 paper:
🤖R2D2: Remembering, Replaying and Dynamic Decision Making with a Reflective Agentic Memory 🧠

📄 Paper: https://t.co/UvhLzJs3xN
📍Poster: Hall 4/5, Session 4 Wednesday, July 30 11:00-12:30

🧵👇

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

Excited to support cool mime work by @chojustin @_Tejas_S_ @Spen_Lin @m2saxon @deuksinkwon and Natalie Chavez! See us at ACL (Findings)

[Justin @chojustin]

Can you tell what actions are being mimed in this video? If so, you’re smarter than AI models! Check the last tweet in this thread for answers.

In a new paper, we present MIME, which evaluates whether vision language models (VLMs) have a robust understanding of human actions.
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[Jon May @jonathanmay]

@1iota i haven't been to a taping in maybe 20 years until this last night, and IJWTS you guys were super professional and efficient and even as a lowly audience member I felt welcomed and appreciated. thanks for a fun and easy night out.

[Jon May @jonathanmay]

@yoavgo i think we nlp people are the weird ones but bottom for both is what i am used to too

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

new favorite thing alert https://t.co/qdcbV2gHsn

[NAACL HLT 2027 @naaclmeeting]

First call for papers is out!
#NAACL2025

🔴https://t.co/z9apuiAHiD

[YerevaNN @YerevaNN]

1/12 We are happy to announce the release of our language models for optimizing small organic molecules. Built on top of Galactica and Gemma, they come in three sizes: Chemlactica-125M, Chemlactica-1.3B, and Chemma-2B. The preprint is on arxiv: https://t.co/VFKnRBlUCG