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🎙️ Full episode with Dr. Greta Tuckute:
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📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01830
#WiAIR #AIResearch #Neuroscience #LLMs (6/6🧵)

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September 23, 2026 at 4:06 PM

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🧠 Does training an LLM longer make it more aligned with the human language network?
In our latest #WiAIR episode, we spoke with Dr. Greta Tuckute about her co-authored paper, “From Language to Cognition: How LLMs Outgrow the Human Language Network.” (1/6🧵)

September 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM

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You'll also hear how a photography business at 14 led to a PhD at MIT 🤯

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What Makes a Sentence Memorable? Inside Language, Memory and LLMs, with Dr. Greta Tuckute

Why don't bigger LLMs look more like the human brain? In the brain's language network, today's large models explain only slightly more variance than GPT-2 XL - and the reason says a lot about what…

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September 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM

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🎙️ Our new guest is live on #WiAIR soon!
Dr.Greta Tuckute @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Research Fellow at the Kempner Institute at Harvard University, previously PhD at MIT. Greta will speak with us about language in biological brains and in artificial language models.

Don't miss this episode!

September 14, 2026 at 3:01 PM

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We have a long way to go to build AI that truly understands data! Read the full breakdown and listen to the episode here 👇
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📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17202
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Is an Image Worth a Thousand Words? Hidden Failures of Multimodal Metrics, with Dr. Elisa Kreiss

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September 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM

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Do AI models really understand charts and graphs the same way we do? 📊 In the latest WiAIR Women in AI Research podcast episode, we are diving into another brilliant paper co-authored by our guest, Dr. Elisa Kreiss! 🎙 (1/7🧵)

September 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM

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We need evaluation metrics that prioritize specificity over verbosity! Don't miss this deep dive into VLM evaluation! 👇
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📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.04609 #WiAIR (7/7🧵)

Is an Image Worth a Thousand Words? Hidden Failures of Multimodal Metrics, with Dr. Elisa Kreiss

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September 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM

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Are longer AI image descriptions actually better, or just more verbose? 🤔 We dive into this in the latest WiAIR Women in AI Research podcast with Dr. Elisa Kreiss! 🎙 (1/7🧵)

September 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM

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Don't miss this eye-opening conversation hosted by Jekaterina Novikova, PhD! 👇
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📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2205.10646
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Is an Image Worth a Thousand Words? Hidden Failures of Multimodal Metrics, with Dr. Elisa Kreiss

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August 25, 2026 at 4:41 PM

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Have you ever wondered why an AI-generated image description that seems perfectly accurate might be completely useless to someone using a screen reader? 🤔 We tackle this in the latest WiAIR Women in AI Research podcast with Dr. Elisa Kreiss! 🎙 (1/7🧵)

August 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM

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🎙️ New #WiAIR episode's out!

We speak with @elisakreiss.bsky.social about how context matters in image descriptions, why the metrics still assume there's one correct answer, how blind and low-vision users were left out of accessibility research & much more

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August 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM

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Full conversation dropping soon on WiAIR. Hosted by @j-novikova-nlp.bsky.social

Subscribe, so you don't miss this episode! 🎙️

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August 17, 2026 at 7:25 PM

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🎙 Full Episode with Dr. Malihe Alikhani:

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📖 Survey: www.brookings.edu/articles/how... (6/6🧵)

Is Your AI Just Flattering You? Sycophancy, AI Policies, and More, with Dr. Malihe Alikhani

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August 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM

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In our latest WiAIR podcast, we spoke with Dr. Malihe Alikhani about her new Brookings Institution analysis detailing how Americans actually adopt AI in their daily and professional lives. (1/6🧵)

August 11, 2026 at 4:12 PM

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🎙 Listen to the podcast episode:

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Is Your AI Just Flattering You? Sycophancy, AI Policies, and More, with Dr. Malihe Alikhani

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August 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM

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As AI transitions from assistant to autonomous agent, are we aligning tech with real human needs or surface-level expectations? 🤖

In our latest WiAIR podcast, we spoke with Dr. Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern / Contextual AI Lab) about AI alignment & safety. (1/7🧵)

August 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM

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🎙 Watch or listen to the full episode with Dr. Malihe Alikhani:
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📖 Article: www.brookings.edu/articles/bre... (6/6🧵)

Is Your AI Just Flattering You? Sycophancy, AI Policies, and More, with Dr. Malihe Alikhani

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July 29, 2026 at 4:27 PM

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Is your AI truly helping you think better, or is it just echoing what you want to hear? 🤖
In our latest WiAIR podcast episode, we sat down with Dr. Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern University / Contextual AI Lab) to discuss AI sycophancy & human-AI collaboration. (1/6🧵)

July 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM

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🎙️ New #WiAIR episode out now!

We speak with Dr. Malihe Alikhani about the hidden failures in how we build and deploy AI.

July 22, 2026 at 4:04 PM

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🎙️ New #WiAIR episode soon!

Dr. Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern, Brookings) on why real AI alignment isn't flattery or metrics, but designing for the messy contexts where people actually use AI.

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July 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM

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📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18871

Understanding how depth is used may improve mechanistic interpretability and inform future adaptive-depth or early-exit systems.

#WiAIR #WomenInAI #LLMs #MechanisticInterpretability #AIResearch

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June 30, 2026 at 6:29 PM

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🎧 Full episode:

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Can Language Alone Create Intelligence? Insights from Neuroscience and AI, with Dr. Anna Ivanova

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June 30, 2026 at 6:29 PM

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🧠 How do LLMs use their depth?

Do all layers contribute in the same way—or do harder predictions require deeper processing?

In our new #WiAIR episode, Dr. Anna Ivanova (@neuranna.bsky.social) discusses her recent paper with collaborators, “How Do LLMs Use Their Depth?” (1/7🧵)