René Kizilcec
@whynotyet
Associate Professor of Information Science @Cornell; Education, Technology, AI/ML, Fairness/Equity. Opinions are my own.
What does the Life Cycle of Large Language Models look like? Check out our new BJET article mapping how LLM-based applications are developed and what biases can arise in each step. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj… arxiv.org/pdf/2407.11203 @JinsookLee1021 @cab938 @renzheyu @YannHicke
Excited to be at #lak2025 check out Kimberly Williamson’s paper today at 10:20 on Algo Appreciation among Educators! Happy to chat about the National Tutoring Observatory— we are hiring a postdoc and Asst Research Prof. nationaltutoringobservatory.org
Excited for @LearningAtScale to be in Palermo next summer together with @AIEDconf and @EDMConf2025 and confirmed keynote by @chrispiech!
The 2025 ACM Learning at Scale Call for Papers is out! Check out all Submission Guidelines and Important Dates: learningatscale.acm.org/las2025/index.… Did we mention we are in sunny Palermo, Sicily in 2025, co-located with @AIEDconf & @EDMConf2025? @SusanRSinger @OlgaOvi @xaoch @Iriskie_Xia
What do LLMs write like? Researchers at @CornellCIS, @Stanford and @Penn found that #AI-generated college admissions essays are most similar to those written by male students with high socioeconomic status and privilege. @whynotyet @aj_alvero news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/1…
Sharing a paper just published in the Journal of Big Data! Studies have shown strong associations with writing and demography, so here we ask "who do LLMs write like?" Answer: higher social status people (with some caveats) BUT with very little variance link.springer.com/article/10.118…
In addition to showing the cultural bias in GPT’s responses, we demonstrate a simple but effective control strategy to improve cultural alignment: cultural prompting, I.e. instructing the model to respond like someone from your region. It works best for the latest versions.
Researchers concerned about cultural bias in large language models asked ChatGPT questions about values used in international surveys. All versions of the model answered like people in English-speaking and Protestant European countries. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/4Oy350Trj4S
Researchers concerned about cultural bias in large language models asked ChatGPT questions about values used in international surveys. All versions of the model answered like people in English-speaking and Protestant European countries. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/4Oy350Trj4S
🌟Applying for a PhD @CornellInfoSci? Our student-run application feedback program is open NOW through Oct 31🌟 We're open to all and especially hope to support scholars who have navigated barriers in higher ed - please share to help us broaden access! infosci.cornell.edu/phd/admissions
We are hiring at @CornellInfoSci ! Open rank: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405 Cornell is a fantastic place to work, please consider applying and sharing this opportunity.
Happy to share that @CornellInfoSci is hiring teaching faculty in all areas! Teaching Cornell students has been a wonderful experience. Please share this opportunity widely: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28402
Returning from perpetual Twitter hiatus to spread the word: @CornellInfoSci is hiring! Tenure-track hires at all levels in Ithaca, focusing on qual/interpretive methods, CSS/quant approaches, study/design of human/AI interactions. Review starts 11/10: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405
Our SI on Advancing Equity and Inclusion in educational practices with AI-powered educational decision support systems (AI-EDSS) is out! Check all the valuable contributions! bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj… @BJETEds @whynotyet @IoanaJJ @alywise @NiaDowell
📣Cornell Postdoc Position: Join our interdisciplinary, NSF-funded project on deterring objectionable speech online with @nataliebazarova @drewmargolin @difrad Details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27892 Thank you for sharing
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Learning at Scale Conference are now available in the ACM Digital Library: dl.acm.org/doi/proceeding… #las24ed
📢 Super excited to share that I'll be joining @Columbia @ColumbiaDBMI @columbiahci as an Assistant Professor in Jan'25! Pls RT: I'm hiring PhDs & Postdocs in Sp/Fa'25 in #DBMI & #CS. My lab focuses on #HCI and #AI for health. Check out orsonxu.com for more info!
What cultural values do GPT-4o, 4, 3.5, 3 express? Using World Values Survey questions, we find GPT consistently aligns with English-speaking countries/Protestant Europe. We show that Cultural Prompting improves alignment. arxiv.org/abs/2311.14096 @yan_ytyt @OlgaOvi @BakerEDMLab
The #las24ed program is available online: learningatscale.hosting.acm.org/las2024/255-2/ And if you haven't registered yet, make sure to take advantage of regular rates by July 1! @OlgaOvi @A_MartinezMones @zpardos @SusanRSinger @rebquintana @openHPI @marimar_ps @choux @cdemmansepp @BakerEDMLab
Today is the last day to get #EarlyBird rates on registration for ACM Learning at Scale 2024 and @EDMConf2024. Co-registration options available. Join us in Atlanta! web.cvent.com/event/e0dcaf2a… #las24ed #edm2024
The list of accepted papers is now up on the L@S 2024 website! learningatscale.acm.org/las2024/204-2/
Looking forward to meeting people at the University of Puerto Rico @UPR_Oficial for their first Congress on AI in Education adistancia.upr.edu/inteligencia_a… #AIED #AI #Education
