OpeningUpMinds

1/2 The Opening Up Minds project starts today, bringing together computer scientists, computational linguists, psychologists and philosophers from @OUComputing, @Cambridge_CL, @sheffielduni and the Cambridge Lab of Toshiba Research Europe .

... and further recent @OpeningUpMinds work by @LottyBrand, @TomStafford and Daniel Brady on a behavioural measure of open-mindedness: the 'Ideological Turing Test' (ITT) psyarxiv.com/2e9wn/

Wonder whether Wizards and Conversational Agents can open up minds? Find out about the data, metrics and experiments at today's #ACL2023NLP #SICon2023 poster presented by @YoumnaFarag sites.google.com/view/sicon-202…

Full 'Findings at EMNLP' paper on Opening Up Minds with Argumentative Dialogues here: oro.open.ac.uk/85410/ ... @YoumnaFarag @LottyBrand, Jacopo Amidei, Svetlana Stoyanchev, @vlachosnlp, @tomstafford, @logicmachines

📢New Preprint!📢 We've developed a behavioural measure of open-mindedness: the 'Ideological Turing Test,' (ITT). 🧵 psyarxiv.com/2e9wn/ with @tomstafford & Daniel Brady from the wonderful @RSE_Sheffield

Wizards and ArguBots have the power to open up minds: a new dataset and experiments with dialogue models. #AI #NLP #dialogue oro.open.ac.uk/85410/

Of course our @OpeningUpMinds project was wonderfully summarised by @logicMachines - watch this space for conference papers/preprints etc coming soon esp. re the "Ideological Turing Test" 😏 @YoumnaH also had a demo of our bot to show

This was a fantastic workshop- so many fascinating people, projects and datasets! Some highlights, tho you should definitely look up every single participant in the program as they were all brilliant! 👇🏻

'These results suggest that the attitudes of the vaccine hesitant are modifiable with exposure to in-depth, trustworthy and engaging dialogues.' by @LottyBrand @tomstafford from the Opening Up Minds team royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Great to see our video by the Opening Up Minds team shown today as part of British Science Week. atadastral.co.uk/bsw/video/ou-a… #BSW22 @OU_STEM

Our results suggest that the attitudes and intentions of the vaccine hesitant are modifiable with exposure to in-depth, trustworthy and engaging dialogues @OpeningUpMinds 💉💉💬🗨️💬🗨️

Critical feedback extremely welcome and encouraged!! 👇👇 Please, kind scrupulous scientists, point out our flaws so that we may improve before submission 🙏. I'm Quite Tired now, Merry Holidays everyone ✌️🎄

Opening up research! - Contributions from @LottyBrand and @tomstafford of the @OpeningUpMinds team to the "House of Common Science and Technology Committee inquiry on reproducibility and research integrity" osf.io/preprints/meta… and committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

At ~2:28, interesting recommendations for what social media platforms should encourage their users to do: "(...) consider the language they use, to have an open mind, to be tolerant (...)"!

Spent all afternoon yesterday training wizards. 🪄 This morning I am managing a team of five wizards simultaneously 🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️ Last year I had no idea how the Wizard of Oz had anything to do with computer science , but , if you know you know 🙃🖥️🧪👩‍🔬🧙‍♂️ @OpeningUpMinds

📢Registration for Truth and Trust Online 2021 is now open! truthandtrustonline.com/register/ Looking forward to seeing you in October!

Excellent article by @AgnesCallard resonating with the aims of the @OpeningUpMinds project.

(I was inspired to listen to the podcast after reading @tomstafford 's blog, and chuffed to realise it's related to the project we're working on with @OpeningUpMinds ) So much fascinating work going on in this area, struggling to keep a lid on it! tomstafford.substack.com/p/across-the-r…

I've only just discovered "Across The Red Line" @BBCRadio4 and, wow. It starts out like any debate, you're furiously disagreeing/agreeing, but then the magic happens. There is a *moment.* It's kind of like therapy for people who're ideologically opposed? bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…

@OpenUniversity @bbcideas Combine these tips with some digital thinking tools to further boost their effectiveness. You can find out more by completing the @OUFreeLearning course developed by my @OUComputing colleague, Paul Piwek (@logicMachines) open.edu/openlearn/scie…

Nice video resonating very much with the aims of the opening up minds project.