Stanford AI Lab Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Informed by prior work, we test the following 4 hypotheses: Redirect - Inspired by Brahnam 5 , we hypothesize that using explicit redirection when responding to an offensive user utterance is an effective strategy. The figure above shows the differences of strategies on the Re-offense ratio.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

Last year, I did an experiment with Eric Siegel of the New York Hall of Science using the Voicethread technology to invite people to offer suggestions and critique on an exhibition plan. One of the surprises that arose from that experiment was the high participant-to-spectator ratio. On this blog, there's about a 0.5%

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

we do tests where we send dozens of donations to nonprofits to see how we’re treated as donors. . So if you treat all your actions as if I wouldn’t want this on Twitter, or the front page of “The New York Times,” then that’s a pretty good way to behave in life. . But essentially. Great book by.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Walt Disneys new headquarters in New York is like a city contained within a single block. Today Disneys work includes studio films and theme parks, but also broadcast news, radio, podcasts, streaming, digital media, and magazines. By the end of this summer, around 5,000 people will work from within the stately 1.2-million-square-foot

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Natasha Singer / The New York Times ). A new job listing reveals that Twitter has a new internal team, codenamed “Gryphon,” that is “building a subscription platform.” Industry. ? Nick Statt / The Verge ).

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending up: Instagram is launching new features aimed at making the platform a more positive space. Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 991,897. Reported cases in New York: 342,267. Data from The New York Times.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

Perhaps this is because they are practicing realpolitik — Rashad Robinson, who has helped to organize the ad boycott as the head of civil rights group Color of Change, suggests as much in an interview with Charlie Warzel at the New York Times. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

One thing the federal government did do was promote public-private partnerships to increase testing capacity, and that effort also stumbled as this piece about a Utah initiative by Robert P. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? David McCabe / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

To others, though, including some of his students, McConnell failed a basic test of empathy: can you avoid using a word you know to be harmful, as a show of support to Stanford’s black community and its allies? Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? Reported cases in New York: 379,977.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Here’s Taylor Lorenz and Kellen Browning at The New York Times : The outpouring of stories from competitive gamers and streamers, who broadcast their gameplay on platforms like Twitch for money, led to the resignation of the C.E.O. Encouraging news.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending up : A new report from the European Commission shows Facebook assessed 95.7 Tiffany Hsu / The New York Times ). Kashmir Hill / The New York Times ). Karen Weise / The New York Times ). percent for Twitter.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Huffman also gave a thoughtful interview to Kevin Roose at the New York Times. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. It’s tempting to see the spike in cases as a result of an increase in testing. Hernández / The New York Times ). Taylor Lorenz / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 116,394. Reported cases in New York: 377,881. Total test results (positive and negative) in New York: 2,167,831. Reported cases in New Jersey: 161,545.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

And if it succeeds, the new normal will look a lot like the old one. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 1,033,370. Reported cases in New York: 343,705. Reported cases in New Jersey: 140,743. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And when this new lawsuit is ultimately resolved, I’d be surprised if YouTube weren’t forced to acknowledge that, too. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Charlie Warzel / The New York Times ). What you are experiencing in New York right now [with a 1.07 That’s bad!

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. With that in mind, we want to know: do you want us to keep tracking the total number of cases, deaths, and tests? Data from The New York Times. Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine ). Daisuke Wakabayashi / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

But there’s reason to believe the case against Google will land the soonest of any of them — in May, the New York Times reported that charges could come “ as early as this summer.”. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Taylor Lorenz / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

And in the meantime, it announced Project Aria — a research prototype for more full-featured augmented reality hardware that will soon be given to Facebook employees and contractors to begin testing. And like other projects with global ambitions, it will also invite new scrutiny over privacy, data security, content moderation, and more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

And when it did — under the hilariously bad name Plandemic: Indoctornation — the New York Times’ Davey Alba helpfully chronicled the various pieces of misinformation it contains. There’s still some possibility that Indoctornation will find new life on the social platforms. They know how to do the right thing, and they can.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending up : TikTok launched a new video series with some of the app’s top creators to help people spot misinformation. Barnes / The New York Times ). Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending up : Twitter announced that it will begin testing a new feature that will suggest users actually read articles before they retweet them. Instead, we’ll include less-frequent updates as new hotspots emerge around the world. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Drug and airline companies disclose things like ingredients, testing results, and flight data when there is an accident,” Kornbluh and Goodman observe. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. David McCabe / The New York Times ). Paul Mozur / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The company said it would not accept new political ads in the seven days leading up to the Nov. The move was framed as a compromise: campaigns can continue to use Facebook for get-out-the-vote efforts through Election Day, but they’ll lose the ability to test new messages. Zolan Kanno-Youngs / The New York Times).

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

The New York Times reported that employees are working on a list of demands , and that some senior employees have threatened to resign if Zuckerberg doesn’t reverse his decision. “As Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 1,944,848.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

One of the journalists who took notice of CrowdTangle’s abilities was Kevin Roose, a columnist and podcast host at the New York Times. Note that CrowdTangle measures only interactions on posts from publisher pages — if someone shares a New York Times link to their own page, it doesn’t get counted. Industry. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Sanger and Zolan Kanno-Youngs / The New York Times ). John Herrman / The New York Times ). Twitter is rolling out a test to let people record and send audio-based direct messages. What big feature should I write next? Imagine that!

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

We accidentally switched the cases for California with the number of tests the state has done in the Virus Tracker section yesterday. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 2,131,294. Reported cases in New York: 378,924.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Here’s Nicole Sperling in the New York Times : President Trump doubled down late Friday on his previous actions against TikTok by formally giving ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the popular video-sharing app, 90 days to divest from its American assets and any data that TikTok had gathered in the United States.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending down : Amazon warehouse workers went on strike in Germany after staff at several logistics centers tested positive for the coronavirus. If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler.” (Ari Ari Levy / CNBC).

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

It was only recently that Trump took to his podium to announce that Google had a thousand engineers building a website for Americans to find nearby COVID-19 tests. (It Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 1,292,672. Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 1,736,894. Reported cases in New York: 371,559. Total test results (positive and negative) in New York: 1,811,544. Reported cases in New Jersey: 157,815.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? Trending up : Facebook announced new features for Messenger that will alert users about messages that appear to come from financial scammers or child abusers. Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 1,696,396. Governing. ?

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Mike Isaac lays them out in the New York Times : A deal with Microsoft and Walmart could draw on Walmart’s digital sales background to turn TikTok into a kind of e-commerce app for both creators and users, people involved in the talks said. Today in news that could change public perception of the big tech companies. ??

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Let’s say 5G works, and the Time Warner cable monopoly in New York City is finally decimated, and everyone’s getting wireless access and they have a bunch of choice. And now we bring it over here, we gave away thousands and thousands of doses to Baylor to test it all. It’s more, what do our customers want? When do they want it?

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Sentoso was presumed to have the novel coronavirus after his wife tested positive. Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 1,696,396. Reported cases in New York: 369,801. Reported cases in New Jersey: 156,628.

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