Henny Admoni
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Henny Admoni
@hadmoni
Associate Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ. I make robots that help people live more independent, happier lives. She/her.
Pittsburgh, PA Katılım Şubat 2011
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@hadmoni at @PASenateGOP Policy Hearing: My goal is to make robots that improve people's quality of life.
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There has been much noise around the fathers and godfathers of Artificial Intelligence, but how about its mothers?
Let's start with Ada Lovelace, often regarded as the first computer programmer, and wrote the first algorithm meant to be run on a computer.
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🌟Update🌟there's been a lot of debate of whether Theory of Mind (ToM) has emerged in new models (ChatGPT/GPT-3.5/GPT4), as people have reported qualitative/anecdotal evidence of good performance on these types of examples.
TLDR; still no neural ToM... 🧵
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Maarten Sap (he/him)@MaartenSap
Have you ever wondered whether large neural networks like GPT3 acquire💭Theory-of-Mind-like abilities🧠? And whether they could achieve human-like🤝🏼social intelligence👥 just by reading insanely large amounts of text? We find they don't have Theory-of-Mind and examine why🧵
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And finally, of course, Pandemic Legacy by THE @robdaviau. If you haven’t played this game, you should.
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Next, a swords-and-sorcery RPG called “Swords of the Serpentine” by my dear friend @KevinKulp. This one is very beginner friendly, and I thoroughly enjoyed it when I played. (That could also be because Kevin is a legendary GM.)
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1/ ChatGPT is an impressive parlor trick, but it is not something that we should view as intelligent (i.e., able to reason able novel problems). Others have “broken” ChatGPT, but I wanted to see it for myself. A 🧵 …
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BIG NEWS! As of 9am this morning, I'm the Director of CMU's brand-new Center for Transformational Play. We build community, make games, do research, and connect our work to the world. Looking forward to doing cool things with YOU.
More here: cs.cmu.edu/news/2022/ctp-…
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@windx0303 That’s awesome! My thumbnail picture has crazy eyes though 😅
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@hadmoni They uploaded it to GQ Taiwan, with Traditional Chinese subtitles!
youtu.be/BgzOvUrxNAs
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In Britt Young’s October 2022 IEEE Spectrum cover story, she discusses the challenges she and others with missing limbs face in a two-handed world, as well as how the bionic-hand technology intended to come to the rescue falls short. spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-fusion…
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Last month I had the distinct honor of attending the first US-Africa Frontiers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine symposium, hosted jointly by @theNASEM and @AASciences in Nairobi, Kenya. It was amazing. Here's a video of the experience. vimeo.com/774346176
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Are you thinking about attending grad school in CS or robotics? Not sure how to apply?
@CMU_Robotics is holding three information sessions this week where we’ll talk about the Whys, Whats and Hows of grad school.
Check out the website for details: ri.cmu.edu/why-what-and-h…
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@harp_lab_cmu students among the CMU Robotics Institute contingent at IROS 22! @SCSatCMU @CMU_ZoomLab @CMU_Robotics (pics courtesy Jean Oh)
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This is really good advice about writing a Statement of Purpose for PhD applications. It's not the only way to structure your SOP, but it's a great template! And more importantly, it gets you to articulate *why* you want a PhD, which is most important.
Roman Feiman@RomanFeiman
Every year I read a lot of grad school applications from accomplished people that don't give me the info I'm looking for. It feels like a major hidden curriculum thing. So here's (my opinion on) how to write a great Statement of Purpose/Research for a PhD program. 🧵 1/
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