Associate Prof @Cornell: Human-Robot Interaction, Collaboration and Companionship, robot design, and performance art robotics. hrc2.io . medium.com/@hoffman
Joined April 2009
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I shared some thoughts with @RachylJones for her @semafor article "Humanizing the machines: Companies design robots to look friendlier" semafor.com/article/02/04/20…
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For the love of god, can robotics companies please stop demoing their robots making coffee?
e.g., physicalintelligence.company…
You have no idea how privileged and detached this looks.
Also: coffee making is not a technologically unsolved problem anyone should be working on.
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The new Cornell Design Tech department in collaboration with Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is looking for exceptional and truly interdisciplinary faculty candidates. If that is you, please apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
or contact me for more details!
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2 Jun 2023
I told @THR that AI is by definition conservative and therefore can't be truly funny. Why?
All Supervised Learning does, including your ML model-du-jour, is "average" the past to imagine the present, and that's literally what being conservative means.
hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
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31 May 2023
Sad and ironic to see how the organizers of @theofficialacm @FAccTConference (with "Fairness" in its very name) are unwilling to accommodate the schedules of mothers of young children, forcing them to make impossible choices between childcare and career.
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31 May 2023
I am sure we will see the usual performative concern about why there are so few women in computer science. This is why. #WomenInTech
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23 May 2023
Ever wondered why social #robots look the way they do? #design
So happy to announce a new chapter written by Belinda Dunstan and myself.
I've wanted to write about this stuff for a long time, and loved working on it with Belinda during my Sabbatical.
link.springer.com/chapter/10…
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23 May 2023
If you are an educator or student and don't have access to the PDF, please email / DM me for a copy.
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7 Feb 2023
What are the odds... I published an opinion post with almost exactly the same title on the same morning: write.guyhoffman.com/why-i-d…
6 Feb 2023
I’m not worried about my students using ChatGPT, Lawrence Shapiro writes in a guest opinion wapo.st/3leTPeC
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6 Feb 2023
With all of the GPT talk about "the death of writing", can anyone agree with me that we should not care?
write.guyhoffman.com/why-i-d…
#writing #gpt3 #ai #education #essay #westworld
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4 Jan 2023
תודה לכרמל ווייסמן על אחת השיחות המעניינות שניהלתי לאחרונה על המחקר שלי. אני גם מאד אוהב את הכותרת, ומתכוון לגנוב אותה לכל ההרצאות שלי בנושא!
4 Jan 2023
פרק חדש: ברובוטים האינטראקציה חשובה יותר מהאינטליגנציה. @guyhoffman מביא לרובוטיקה שיעורים מעולמות האנימציה והמשחק, תכנן את שחקן התיאטרון הרובוטי הראשון, רובוט שמאלתר ג'אז בזמן אמת וגם "נהנה" מהמוזיקה, וחקר את ההשפעות הפסיכולוגיות שיש לרובוטים על בני אדם
absolutecarmel.com/ep63
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16 Nov 2022
The Hidden Value of Prototyping for Policy Making in Tech and Beyond
@CenDemTech Research Fellow Michal Luria (@michalluria) on the use of prototyping techniques for the policy development process: techpolicy.press/the-hidden-…
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14 Nov 2022
If I would ever have to explain this website to anyone outside of the US, they would laugh me in the face fsastore.com/
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10 Nov 2022
17.5 glorious hours of #robot telepresence - the XPRIZE AVATAR Finals live stream is up:
youtube.com/watch?v=lOnV1Go6…
#robotics #tech
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9 Nov 2022
One of the most interesting and entertaining podcast interviews I've heard in a while. @davekarpf on @techwontsaveus: techwontsave.us/episode/139_…
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7 Nov 2022
Watching the @Meta #metaconnect2022 summary, I am so happy that human civilization has finally (again) reached the point that I tap the side of my glasses, and music will start playing.
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Finally, it was depressing to see the lack of diversity in the teams. From what I could see, out of the 17 finalists, a shocking 8 appeared to have all-male teams, with 5 more having a single woman on the team. Sadly, even in 2022, some parts of robotics hasn't changed much.
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6 Nov 2022
The future of robotic telepresence comes down to UX and for the most part the homogenous, engineering-heavy, teams either ignored or "trust-me-im-an-engineer'ed" the interaction. It didn't work for operators and thus for the task. UX design and HRI was the missing ingredient.
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