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Jan 02, 2025 The New York Times has an article on the use of AI in sermons where they profile of Rabbi Josh Fixler and the AI generated sermons for Rabbit Bot. I created the first version of the bot back in 2023. I used two years of sermons given by Rabbi Fixler to generate a sermon in his style.
Nov 15, 2024 This week I have two papers out: (1) Building persoanlity adaptive conversational agents for mental health therapy at the International Workshop on Parallel and AI-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine ParBio at ACM-BCB (2) 𝐸2𝑇2: Emote Embedding for Twitch Toxicity Detection at CSCW
Nov 07, 2024 I am giving a talk (When Your Grandpa Is a Bot: AI, Death, and Digital Dopplegangers) at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Eastern Washingon
Nov 04, 2024 I am giving a talk Digital Resurrections: A Son’s Journey to Recreate His Father with Artificial Intelligence at the Grand Cinema which is part of their Science on Screen Series
Oct 09, 2024 I gave the annual Huntingford Humanities Lecture (When Your Grandpa Is a Bot: AI, Death, and Digital Doppelgangers) at the Jefferson County Library, WA
Sep 27, 2024 I was a panelist at the staging of the Play CYpher in University Heights, Seattle. The play deals with the issues of digital immortality, identity and family.
Aug 20, 2024 Gave a talk on Integrating Machine Learning and Complex Systems perspectives on Chronic critical illness at the Air Force Institute of Technology