Ned Cooper

Postdoc @CornellCIS and affiliate @MINTresearchlab. Previously PhD @ourANU, @GoogleAI, human rights law, some other things

[Jared Moore @jaredlcm]

LLMs can shift people's beliefs.
But most persuasion studies only check beliefs before and after a conversation.
We built PersuasionTrace to measure beliefs turn by turn, so we can study how belief updates actually unfold.

[Jared Moore @jaredlcm]

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

[Jared Moore @jaredlcm]

Can LLMs use ToM to genuinely persuade you, or do they just use good rhetoric?

In our new preprint, we use the MINDGAMES framework to test this. Surprisingly, LLMs like o3 can be incredibly effective persuaders *without* actually understanding your mental states. 🧵👇

[Glen Berman @glenberman]

In a paper we’re workshopping this week at @NeurIPSConf, @nedcpr @wes_deng @benhutchinson & I ask: what is the model of societal impacts reflected in efforts to evaluate GenAI systems?

Paper: https://t.co/NxMb2mxTNo
Workshop: https://t.co/7z7ZebPcS5
#NeurIPS2024
1/5

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@_RodolfoOcampo But will it be worth watching?

[Australasian Language Technology Association @altanlp]

Registrations are now open for the #ALTA2024 conference affiliated with @aclmeeting 🎉

📆 Monday 2nd Dec - Wed 4th Dec 2024
📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, @ourANU

#Online and in-person options available.

https://t.co/tI7QS8QJtn

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@Trang_HienLe That's great news Trang! Well done. Look forward to reading it

[Australasian Language Technology Association @altanlp]

Prof @ehovy of @UniMelb will deliver a free public #lecture at #ALTA2024:

"Generative #LLMs: How they work and where they are heading"

📷 5.30 - 6.30pm AEDT, Mon, 2nd Dec
📷 Birch Bldg Innovation Space,
35 Science Rd, @ourANU

https://t.co/TuOVHcKwg8

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@willie_agnew @KathyReid good and interesting analysis in here! Mentions Common Voice.

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@_RodolfoOcampo All for this!

[Skyler Wang @skylrwang]

📢 NEW PUB! @nedcpr, @margaret_eby, and I wrote this last Spring to theorize the disorienting impact ChatGPT has on social institutions & norms. 2 years later, everything feels different, but many aspects of AI development remain the same. Read more here:
https://t.co/UgZ0E1Mokg

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@SianGooding Guilty

[Australasian Language Technology Association @altanlp]

❗#CfP EXTENDED to 27th Sep

#NLP #RAG #NLU paper get rejected from @emnlpmeeting #EMNLP? Consider submitting instead to #ALTA2024, affiliated with @aclmeeting.

📅 Submission deadline: 27 Sep

https://t.co/lH7rjf6GPE

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@davidthewid Big congrats! Well deserved.

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@megyoung0 @MikeKatell I'm very sorry, Meg. He did special work and seemed a wonderful person.

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@IanArawjo I submitted a short paper to CHI last year. The chairs "strongly encouraged" them, but reviewers were less enthusiastic. There were lots of requests for 'more detail'. Mine was luckily accepted (about a 15% rate), but I'm hesitant to try again.

[Ben Hutchinson @benhutchinson]

What does it mean to create datasets responsibly for training Multilingual LLMs? New position paper discussing relevant social, cultural, and ethical considerations.
https://t.co/yQ5ReKbrEV

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

🐝🧠🤖 Curious about how bees think, why human reason might be social, or the challenges in developing AI that understands our world? Last month, I was lucky to learn about these topics and more @DivIntelligence in Scotland. A few reflections below: https://t.co/jByiosnhYx

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@hannahrosekirk Michelle Cohn had a poster on a related topic at CHI this year: https://t.co/kIoTu1UamV

[Ned Cooper @nedcpr]

@runmiridliy @cmuhcii @lxieyang Huge congratulations Nur!