Michael Winikoff
husband, father, professor at @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social, musician (piano, choir, composer), keen reader & board gamer. https://michaelwinikoff.com
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffThe 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award Committee has selected two winners for this year’s award. 🔹Book Award Rules of Encounter by Jeffrey S. Rosenschein & Gilad Zlotkin 🔹Collection of Papers Award Influential works by Amy Greenwald, Keith Hall, @Junling Hu, Michael Wellman, and Amir Jafari.
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffReady to register? Visit www.easyconferences.org 🔹 Reserve accommodation 🔹 Purchase extra tickets 🔹 Sign up for workshops 🔹 Print your poster locally 🔹 Arrange airport transfers 🔹 Book optional excursions ✅ For more information contact @easyconferences.bsky.social #AAMAS2026 #Cyprus
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffThe wait is over! 🎊 The AAMAS 2026 Accepted Research Track papers are now live! 🔗 View the full list of accepted research papers here: cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ac... Join us in celebrating the hard work of our global research community! #AAMAS2026 #MultiAgentSystems #AIResearch
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffJoin our hands-on workshops at AAMAS 2026 and gain practical skills from leading experts in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems workshops. 🎟️ Learn more: cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/wo... #AAMAS2026 #Cyprus #AutonomousAgents #MultiAgent
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffNew AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv. www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffWe wish you happy new year, and we can't wait to meet you in Cyprus this year! #AAMAS2026
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffHappy New Year! See you in Cyprus soon! #AAMAS2026 #AAMAS #2026
- Happy new year! (My brain hurts from reading this 😵💫)
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffBan the Business Model, Not the Child. Read these wise (research based) words from colleague @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social on the social media ban in Australia @ascor.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social www.jessicataylorpiotrowski.com/2025/12/11/b...
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- Reposted by Michael WinikoffIt’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
- Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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- Reposted by Michael WinikoffMy views on "agentic" here in this AP article on "agentic AI" apnews.com/article/agen...
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffAs skepticism of AI deepens, we keep coming back to this Gary Marcus interview from May — where he argued OpenAI would be “the WeWork of AI.” @cnbc.com @garymarcus.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/video/2024/0...
- Reposted by Michael Winikoff👉Softbank sells entire Nvidia position. 👉Oracle debt downgraded. 👉Meta financing games revealed. 👉OpenAI CEO @sama couldn’t explain how company would meet its $1.4 T obligations. 👉Coreweave drops 20% in a week. You do the math.
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffScientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffThis NeurIPS workshop claims that LLMs "provide an important foundation for exploring human cognition, emotion, and social interaction" This is flawed logic, as @lmesseri.bsky.social and I argue here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffIt is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
- Reposted by Michael Winikoffgeography, logic, and counting
- www.csoonline.com/article/4077... Whenever I run a meeting that has minutes I always read the draft minutes before sharing - I guess this becomes even more important if the meetings are being generated by a stochastic parrot 🦜 …
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffWhether you’re an AI skeptic, an AI evangelist, or just someone who wants to know what’s happening on the cutting edge of tech, you should be reading @garymarcus.bsky.social. Vibe coding? It’s dying. I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you. garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-vibe-co...
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- Reposted by Michael WinikoffOkay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffIFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Submission link: forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVim... #AAMAS2026
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffThe abstracts submission deadline for the main technical tracks is fast approaching! Don't miss your chance to present your research in Cyprus and connect with top experts in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems🔔 📅 Submission deadline: October 1, 2025 #AAMAS2026 #Cyprus #AutonomousAgents
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- Reposted by Michael WinikoffAdding AI watermark to latest paper...
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffThe 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems is coming to Cyprus this year. youtu.be/aAGHxUPZInY #AAMAS2026 #Cyprus #AutonomousAgents
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- Position (permanent): Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Information Management at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. My school is advertising for an academic position. (1/2)
- (2/2) Note: deadline 9th June, "We can only consider applicants who are citizens or residents of New Zealand or Australia or on a current working visa." More information: ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffFraming of AI safety as primarily about x-risk has 3 drawbacks: 1.Excludes researchers with different perspectives about what AI safety is and why we should care about 2.Misleads public about the field's scope and necessity 3.Creates resistance to build safe AI systems from those skeptical of x-risk
- Reposted by Michael WinikoffOur paper "AI safety for everyone" with Balint Gyevnar is out at Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... We challenge the narrative that AI safety is primarily about minimizing existential risks from AI. Why does this matter?
- Delighted to share our most recent paper: "A Scoresheet for Explainable AI" (with John & Sebastian). It will be presented at @aamasconf.bsky.social later this month. 🎬 Short YouTube summary (5 minutes): www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpf... 📝 Link to the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.098...
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- Reposted by Michael WinikoffAI Hype: The phenomenon where experts without expertise hype up imminent arrival of expertise without experts. #AIAphorisms
- Reposted by Michael Winikoff👇 “If we mediate our writing through AI, we mediate our relationships through AI. We risk losing the very reason for why we write: To communicate, with others.”
- I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
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- Ascribing emotions to ChatGPT (or other LLMs) makes no sense. Just because a piece of software generates English text does not mean it functions like a human (spoiler: it doesn't). That this passes for journalism is really unfortunate.
