The TREC website has been updated for the first time in... decades? Looking good. trec.nist.gov/index.html

Thanks to the #sigirap2024 people for giving us a mention on the conference bag, brought a smile to our faces.

In her talk, @katecrawford.bsky.social delved into the history of Large Language Models, she rightly highlighted the pioneering work of Fred Jelinek who kicked off language models in 1972, however, I wouldn't be faithful to my handle (IR Oldie) if I didn't highlight some IR history...

What a magnificent communicator @katecrawford.bsky.social is. Loved her talk at the State Library of Victoria on Thursday broadening the perspectives we have about AI. The non-techy who accompanied me was buzzing about this event.