Luke Gessler
@LukeGessler
Low-resource NLP and more at @IUBloomington Linguistics. Formerly @Georgetown, @CUBoulder
was once trying to explain to a layperson how an "AI launches the nukes" situation is at all possible ("but it's just a next word predictor!") and did not expect to see something like this in the real world so soon lol
RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._R…
vibe coded this interactive optimizer visualization thing, still kinda buggy but not bad for an hour of telling gemini and claude to just do things! lgessler.com/files/optimize…
Meet Ai2 Paper Finder, an LLM-powered literature search system. Searching for relevant work is a multi-step process that requires iteration. Paper Finder mimics this workflow — and helps researchers find more papers than ever 🔍
TPOT had always reminded me of common endonyms which translate to 'true people', 'real people', 'clear speakers', 'people who can speak intelligibly', etc. This auto-deictic mode of identification works fine in traditional embodied settings, and less well in diffuse online spaces
The concept of TPOT, my community, has been largely misused and adopted by people that are either tpot-adjacent or actual outgroup It is time to set the record straight--
> Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the Louisiana surgeon general, wrote that health officials should meet “people where they are.” Now that's an implausible attachment in the quoted portion
Trump has held off on invoking the Alien Enemies Act, for now. @CNN's reporting that his team is "reviewing the applicability" of the law proved correct. In the coming days, we need to convince Trump not to abuse this law. Call your lawmakers!! /2 cnn.com/2025/01/17/pol…
A member of Mangione's extended family described a troubled childhood for the Baltimore native, recalling that even as a toddler Mangione would often gleefully sing a song about the collapse of civilization and mass extinction. The song, "Ring Around the Rosie",
hilarious paper from a couple years ago showing DALL-E 2 is capable of some, uh, impressive OOD generalization arxiv.org/pdf/2208.04135
really wish the conferences I review for would notify everyone involved in the review process about final decisions. seems like useful feedback that would help reviewers grow
this is the confusion that ensues when Big Symbolic AI keeps Philosophical Investigations off the curriculum 😔
I’m staring to really dislike English as a language for reasoning in. It’s impossible to be rigorous. Every word has like 50 contextual definitions.
Sundar Pichai said on the earnings call today that more than 25% of all new code at Google is now generated by AI.