Vivek Srikumar
svivek.bsky.social
Vivek Srikumar
@svivek.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Utah. Work on NLP, ML, AI. https://svivek.com
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Honestly it's happening so much that I can't keep up with adding all of them to our tracker. I have ~30 cases that people have sent my way that I'm still ingesting, so will be over 100 soon.

www.polarislab.org/ai-law-track...
May 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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"This is an achievement that took Fitzgerald himself around two stressful years—and the faster writing time offers proof that the Xerox 914, via its use of electricity, bright light, and powdered toner, has exceeded the creative powers of the human mind."
Book Review: The Great Gatsby by the Xerox 914 Photocopier
Amid the rise of artificial intelligence, technophobes and Luddites have continued to insist that machines “can’t really write”—at least not the wa...
buff.ly
November 23, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
November 9, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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EMNLP 2025
November 14, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence".

The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them.

Hope you will check it out!

www.science.org/doi/full/10....
The metaphors of artificial intelligence
A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...
www.science.org
November 14, 2024 at 10:56 PM