Pablo Paredes

@reganmandryk @mattm401 Lol... Yeah!! That was a funny moment, thanks for the comment, Regan!

@mattm401 @pabloeparedes Great talk! The comment, “The engineers, who are also humans” made my morning. :)

.@pabloeparedes rocking our "On Stress" presentation in this morning's Mental Health and Wellbeing session at #Chi2024 #hci #sensing #wearables #stress

Happy to complete a cycle of collab. with @zhenanbao, @KhanLabUSC, @mattm401, @LMWilliams_PhD, and many great researchers from @Stanford, @StanfordMed, @StanfordHAI, @USC, @umdcs, @UDelaware, @siusom ... Thanks to @ToyotaResearch for their support to present it at #CHI2024

@gautam_io @elonmusk @Tesla @CitySanLeandro @TeslaInsurance Thanks, I will do it... I initially, Tesla insurance said they may go after the city for covering part of the cost, but now they are just leaving me alone.

@pabloeparedes @elonmusk @Tesla @CitySanLeandro @TeslaInsurance Wow that's crazy! Glad you're ok Pablo. Have you looked into filing a claim with the city? I haven't done it before but I know they are responsible for pothole damage to your car. Has to be the same for this. sanleandro.org/1016/File-a-Cl…

@elonmusk my @Tesla model 3 burned down b a piece of metal uncleaned by @CitySanLeandro, sliced the battery. I got no warnings and escaped after a passerby told me. @TeslaInsurance tells me that it was my fault, and that I should contact the manufacturer. What do I do?

I was driving back home at low speed and almost die, and now I need to pay for deductibles? @Tesla should do something here beyond ridiculous insurance formalities.

Thanks @ToyotaResearch for supporting me to be at #CHI2024 to present my former multidisciplinary work in collaboration with multiple departments @Stanford @USC @umdcs @UDelaware and colleagues across various other universities: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr…

Really proud of being part of this new National AI R&D center funded by @NSF, covering an important need in our society trails.umd.edu

Proud to see my former postdoc @XinTong1111 present our #CHI2023 paper "Just Do Something: comparing Self-Proposed with AI-recommended stress interventions...", showing efficacy for both cases. Great collaboration with colleagues from @umdcs @StanfordMed @UDelaware & @DukeKunshan

This work is based on our Chrome Plugin tool Home Sweet Office github.com/PervasiveWellb… - we are happy to explore new questions about stress, productivity or behavioral change in general.

Proud to see my former postdoc @XinTong1111 present our #CHI2023 paper "Just-Do-Something" dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… comparing Self-Proposed with AI-recommended stress interventions, showing efficacy from both! Great collaboration with @umdcs @StanfordMed @UDelaware & @DukeKunshan

@dh7net UX x "anything" should never be a last minute design choice. An engineering-obsessed culture thinks UX comes later. FYI - the field of research is called Human-Computer Interaction. AI and HCI come from the same origin. Attend @acm_chi at Hamburg, learn, and inform others.

UX x AI is not a nice interface on top of a nice model. It is about incorporating the UX inside the model at every possible level. 6/6

Putting Google Brain under Deepming is a smart move, but it won't be enough to solve the main issue that Google is facing. The problem never was research. 1/N

@NElmqvist @csaudk Congratulations, Niklas! Best success in your beautiful new destination!

Sweet home Scandinavia! 🇸🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴After 15 wonderful years in the US (6 at Purdue and 9 at UMD), my family and I are moving to Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰 this summer. I have accepted a position as professor of Computer Science @csaudk. This 40M DKK (~$6M) will help me jumpstart my research!

Super proud to witness my mother receiving a just recognition for her pioneer academic career as the creator of the Gender Studies major at @JurisUCUENCA m.facebook.com/media/set/?set…

@andriy_mulyar @sleepinyourhat @srush_nlp @chrmanning @mdredze @ChrisGPotts Not only NLP students... What do any CS PhD students do? Is there even any interest or need for anything other than LLMs anymore?

Serious question: What does an NLP Ph.D student work on nowadays with the presence of closed source GPT models that beat anything you can do in standard academic lab? @sleepinyourhat @srush_nlp @chrmanning @mdredze @ChrisGPotts

@Ken_Goldberg Can you elaborate? Are you rethinking mostly your views on creativity and AI?

We're in the middle of a paradigm shift. I'm reconsidering my prior views on AI and Creativity: nautil.us/ingenious-ken-…

Excited to be participating tomorrow in an interesting panel about Biometrics Regulation organized by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology... You can register and attend here: law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/…

Excited to have received news that our paper comparing self-proposed & machine-recommended stress interventions w/ online workers (via our Home Sweet Office plugin) was accepted to #CHI2023. It's been great working w/ @XinTong1111, @pabloeparedes, and others on this #HCI project.

Turns out people have good ideas to manage their own stress at work... machines can further support if needed. Proud to have our paper contrasting self-proposed and AI-recommended interventions accepted to #CHI2023. Congrats to my former postdocs @XinTong1111, @mattm401, et al.

@ylecun The scientific process must end with a rigorous publication, because that is how you guarantee rigorous scientific work. Following the scientific process w/o publishing should have a different name. Perhaps "empirical engineering", or something else, but not science.

By telling scientists they must publish, you get: 1. higher-quality research, more reliable results, less self-delusion 2. better scientists whose reputation will flourish 3. easier external collaborations 4. better research evaluation 5. better internal impact 6. prestige

@mynkgoel Thanks, Mayank

@pabloeparedes Very interesting!

Happy to share my latest TEDx talk in Discomfort by Design: youtu.be/y96jRdVFcSw In a world where technology is built mostly to alleviate discomfort, maybe what we need is to embrace discomfort as a design feature to help us grow and develop resilience.