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Michael Littman

@mlittmancs

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Michael Littman
8 months
This month is the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, "Code to Joy". I'm happy to announce it's also the month of the release of the audiobook version of the book, which I narrate. Enjoy! @mitpress
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Michael Littman
9 months
The US Secretary of State cannot tell a lie; after all, he's A. Blinken.
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Michael Littman
9 months
I got to help shape this document, providing guidance about how AI researchers collaborate globally. It was unveiled at the UN General Assembly yesterday by the Secretary of State.
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U.S. Department of State | Science Diplomacy USA
9 months
Exciting News! @SecBlinken announced the release of the Global AI Research Agenda, a 40+ page document developed by the U.S. Government to foster a holistic and coordinated approach to AI research and development that benefits all people. Read more:
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Michael Littman
11 months
You'd think that, since I'm working in government, my id card would count as "government id". It does not. Very confusing when I tried to get through security at the Pentagon. (My Rhode Island drivers's license worked.).
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Michael Littman
1 year
I wanted to better understand how language models can help with decision-making and planning and worked with a great team to produce this nifty piece of work!.
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Max Zuo
1 year
Ever wonder if LLMs use toolsšŸ› ļø the way we ask them?. We explore LLMs using classical planners: are they writing *correct* PDDL (planning) problems?. Say hišŸ‘‹ to Planetarium🪐, a benchmark of 132k natural language & PDDL problems. šŸ“œ Preprint: 🧵1/n
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Michael Littman
1 year
Great topic, great speakers!.
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Jason Liu @RSS
1 year
Submit to our #RSS2024 workshop on ā€œRobotic Tasks and How to Specify Them? Task Specification for General-Purpose Intelligent Robotsā€ by June 12th. Join our discussion on what constitutes various task specifications for robots, in what scenarios they are most effective and more!
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Michael Littman
1 year
In my book, "Code to Joy", I include a Marvel-movie-like post credit scene teasing a future in which AI capabilities are available on an Arduino chip. I just learned that life is imitating art!
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Michael Littman
1 year
Dear Schrodinger, the cat's alive!
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Michael Littman
1 year
And "escape codes" is "cape cod" surrounded by "es" on both sides.
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Michael Littman
1 year
Over my career, I've served on 53 Ph.D. dissertation committees. Five of the students have been named "Michael". There was also a "Mykel" and a "Michail". Homophily, you've gone too far.
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Michael Littman
1 year
Speaker at a talk just said that researchers who don't engage with the current work on large scale neural models will be dinosaurs. I'm wondering if I get to pick which kind of dinosaur before I have to decide.
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Michael Littman
1 year
Kinda cool. I haven't seen the book in the wild yet, but apparently it's even on display in some places!.
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pushkar
1 year
I found a book proudly displayed in a Seattle bookshop @mlittmancs
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Michael Littman
1 year
A glowing review of my book (@mitpress) from one of my science communication heroes! (I went to one of @stevenstrogatz 's book events on the notion of infinity and he encouraged me to write a book, and I did!).
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Steven Strogatz
1 year
I’ve just started reading this book, and it’s fantastic! Super informative and funny. I don’t know the author, Michael Littman, personally, but it’s obvious from every page that he is a marvelous teacher. HIGHLY Recommended!
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Michael Littman
1 year
I'm confused by this 23-and-me health survey question: . During the last month, how often . Has your memory been as good as it usually is? (A) Never, (B) Some of the time, (C), About half the time, (D) Most of the time, (E) Always. Isn't it usually as good as it usually is?.
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Michael Littman
1 year
Airline installs chatbot. Customer gets bad information from it. Customer asks for refund. Airline says "the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions" (!). Court says no. (Whew.) Airline makes refund and turns off chatbot.
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Michael Littman
1 year
Discussion of "deceptive" chatbots with Jennifer Strong @shiftshow_ai : .
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Michael Littman
1 year
A short Q&A on AI for NSF.
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Michael Littman
2 years
Dave and I interviewed Rich Sutton!
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Michael Littman
2 years
Good news: AI Chatbots haven't increased cheating in HS, yay! Bad news: Maybe that's because 70% of students were already cheating. uh oh.
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Michael Littman
2 years
Interview from my friends at GT about my book.
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Georgia Tech Computing
2 years
.@GTOMSCS Lecturer Explains 'Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Programming'. "We — all of us — need to be more active in telling these machines what we want them to do. The good news is that #AI [. ] can help meet us part way." .-Michael Littman. News:
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