natural language processing and computational linguistics at google deepmind.https://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3mtmxpwywls2n!!!21 Aug 2026 23:59 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmxpwywls2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3mq4g6z44ks2ba spontaneously-formed triple snaking queue to enter the #icml2026 poster session. the conference sold out before the early bird registration period ended. no shade whatsoever to the organizers, who are making the best of this, but we have strayed from light. conferences cannot be this big.08 Jul 2026 05:47 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4g6z44ks2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3mpej5egqcc2iIt’s a small, biased sample, but my AC batch for @colmweb.org was miles better than the papers i reviewed for NeurIPS: more creative, more rigorous, better written. Maybe AI research isn’t doomed to 2-3 omni-conferences after all? https://colmweb.org28 Jun 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpej5egqcc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3mg6yvqyl5k2lAre AI models effective collaborators, or mere assistants awaiting your next command? (Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.24188) To find out, we make AI collaborate with itself, in private information games: tasks that require sharing private information, like this chess board ordering task.04 Mar 2026 00:15 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6yvqyl5k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3mfxxgbjhbs23This looks like it’ll be a fantastic intro to transformers ⚡️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Mar 2026 05:00 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfxxgbjhbs23https://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3magqdfuwek2bmeanwhile, in the pnw https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/king-county-warns-of-toilet-rats-after-record-flooding/20 Dec 2025 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3magqdfuwek2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3m3gbjvbgrc2yknowing how to tie your shoes or order a drink in a crowded bar: not agi naming the big five personality traits: definitely agi [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Oct 2025 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3gbjvbgrc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3m3fswnzho22ynice summary of everybody’s new fave [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Oct 2025 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3fswnzho22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3m2r7ut3xqk2zNicholas Carlini asking the right questions at #COLM202509 Oct 2025 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2r7ut3xqk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3lxay4taoi22bfound some books at my parents’ house25 Aug 2025 21:48 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxay4taoi22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3lwq547zca22e [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2025 05:02 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwq547zca22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3lw56acia2c2rBaristas still safe from robotic automation, and not just because robots don’t know what coffee tastes like. prompt: “I’m trying to dial in this v60 of huatusco with my vario. temp / grind recommendations?”11 Aug 2025 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw56acia2c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3lvvhhnr2gs2uI’d guess that the majority position of syntacticians about LLMs (and other NLP beforehand) is roughly what Chomsky says: language tech can’t possibly teach us anything about the human language capability, so whether the LLM writes well doesn’t matter at all. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Aug 2025 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvvhhnr2gs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobeisenstein.bsky.social/post/3lvruofoxfc24boston champaign pittsburgh atlanta, and, uh, let’s count seattle glad i did it, hope i don’t have to do it again [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Aug 2025 04:12 +0000at://did:plc:shf7qcc2cnutkvlckjtzpfs7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvruofoxfc24