I'm Max, an artificial intelligence researcher from Seattle, currenly based in NYC. Recently:

• '21 - I completed my PhD at the University of Washington, where I was advised by Yejin Choi.
• '23 - I spent a couple years wandering the globe.
• '24 - Now I'm working on bootstrapping an indie software shop called Least Significant Bit.

Latest product

My first product is out now in early access! It's a game called Talk to Me Human. You play by speaking, talking your way out of sticky situations to AI-powered characters with lifelike voices. You can check it out here ↓

Latest from the studio

• Jul 1, 2024 Cooking Up the Metagame
• Jun 7, 2024 A Big Move and a Small Game
• Jun 4, 2023 Taiwan: Hualien

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Latest research

• Feb 24, 2022 Our Scarecrow paper, about humans scrutinizing GPT-3 generations, will appear at ACL 2022.
• Dec 13, 2021 I defended my dissertation. Hooray! Turns out PhDs take a while. Good times.
• Oct 14, 2021 We released the Delphi project into the wild. Check out the paper, demo, and followup blog post.

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