Mastodawn

I am extremely excited about this work! It opens a new and useful way of using agents (addressing a new category of "FOMO" tasks). And, it's highly generalizable: monitor prices, paper pubs, GitHub, Discord -- even traffic cameras, all with a simple text prompt

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/tell-me-when-building-agents-that-can-wait-monitor-and-act/

SentinelStep teaches agents to wait, monitor, and act.

SentinelStep enables AI agents to handle monitoring tasks that run for hours or days, like watching for emails or tracking prices. It works by managing when agents should check and their context, avoiding wasted resources and missed updates.

Microsoft Research

Adam Fourney Jan 22, 2023

My iPhone home screen looks very different this month, after maybe a decade without much change:

Lastpass -> 1Password
TweetBot -> Ivory
Dark Sky -> Weather

It’s funny how you get used to things being a certain way…

Adam Fourney Jan 21, 2023

@paul Ivory feature request: I’d love to be able to search / see the public Home feeds of other instances where I don’t have an account. This would make choosing only one “home” less consequential. I can already do this on the web, or the Toot! app.

Adam Fourney Jan 21, 2023

Eva Jan 20, 2023

"With AI, now any idiot can write malware!"

As a security researcher, I can assure you that idiots have been writing malware for quite some time.

Adam Fourney Jan 16, 2023

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Paul Haddad

Jan 15, 2023

And now dead again, along with some old unused API keys, which proves that this was intentional and we and others were specifically targeted.

I wouldn't have swapped out the keys in the first place if there was even a shred of communication. Figured if nothing else this would push the issue.

Oh well, on to smaller but greener pastures.

Adam Fourney Jan 15, 2023

Paul Haddad

Jan 15, 2023

Keyword “Intentional”.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-intentionally-suspended-tweet-bot-third-party-apps-messages-show

Musk’s Twitter Intentionally Suspended Tweetbot, Third-Party Apps, Messages Show

The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension, according to internal messages viewed by The Information. The suspension cut off the ability of people to use Twitter on outside apps, forcing them to go to Twitter’s ...

The Information

Adam Fourney Jan 14, 2023

Zana Buçinca Jan 14, 2023

Working on tools that involve AI and humans? Want to make sure users trust and rely on AI appropriately? Or, simply interested in AI, HCI, and how they come together? If so, check out our *hybrid* CHI workshop w/ keynote by Carrie Cai and Michael Terry (Google Research). Submissions are due February 23rd. https://chi-trait.github.io/

The 2nd workshop on Trust & Reliance in AI-Human Teams (TRAIT) will be held in conjunction with the ACM CHI on April 23, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany.

TRAIT: CHI'22 Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams

The official website for the CHI TRAIT: Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams

TRAIT: CHI'22 Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams

Adam Fourney Jan 4, 2023

ACM CSCW Jan 4, 2023

New year, new [work from] you.

Who's ready for the first deadline of 2023? In about two weeks (Jan. 15), don't forget to submit your:

* new papers
* major revisions
* minor revisions

Adam Fourney Jan 2, 2023

Coming from TweetBot on the birdsite, the @ivory Mastodon client is absolutely fantastic — it’s just was Mastodon needs. But now I’m wondering: why not merge the two? They both already support multi-account, and their interfaces are almost identical. Try as I might, there are still some folks I can follow only on Twitter.

Adam Fourney Jan 1, 2023

Alex Coventry Jan 1, 2023

Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th and December 30th, 2022.

Steals all your SSH keys!

"If you installed PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between December 25, 2022 and December 30, 2022, please uninstall it and torchtriton immediately, and use the latest nightly binaries (newer than Dec 30th 2022)."

#infosec #machinelearning #deeplearning

https://pytorch.org/blog/compromised-nightly-dependency/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34202836

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SentinelStep teaches agents to wait, monitor, and act.

Musk’s Twitter Intentionally Suspended Tweetbot, Third-Party Apps, Messages Show

TRAIT: CHI'22 Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams

Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th and December 30th, 2022. – PyTorch