Julia Witte Zimmerman

Julia Zimmerman is a student at the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont Complex Systems.

Author/ illustrator of the Sweet and Innocent Little Children’s Book of Cannibalism! Author of integer sequences A338819, A363054, A363377, and A367733! Part of the anticapitalist tech blog, the Luddite!

Papers:

• Tokens, the oft-overlooked appetizer: Large language models (LLMs), the distributional hypothesis (DH), and meaning

• Ousiometrics and Telegnomics

• An assessment of measuring local levels of homelessness through proxy social media signals

  • International Journal of Homelessness

• A blind spot for large language models: Supradiegetic linguistic information in the Plutonics journal

  • arXiv pre-print

• Foregrounding Artist Opinions: A Survey Study on Transparency, Ownership, and Fairness in AI Generative Art

  • In AIES Proceedings

  • AIHub Blog post

• Matters Arising: A Response to Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots

• A quantitative analysis of the affirmative furtherance of fair housing in the Housing Choice Voucher program

• The benshapirobot

You can find my work & educational history on linkedin.

Other uses/ press:

• I sometimes get to contribute to the awesome Girls' Angle, a math club with a bimonthly Bulletin which aims to encourage girls to explore math. Our Stable Marriage article got written about in the New York Times' Numberplay blog by Gary Antonick. You can see the entire article in the December 2012 issue of the Girls' Angle Bulletin.

• 404 Media cited our work in a piece on Replika (AI chatbot/ company).

• I helped illustrate Danbee Kim’s First VIRS graphic novel!

• MIT's online education initiative, EdX, also used some of my art in EdX101

• To illustrate Shockfield in The Technocrat.

• In various Girl Scouts' publications and events.

• In RUNE, MIT's student journal of art and letters.

• I'm a RAW artist!

• On Turning Art!

• I drew the logo for the band Scubaphone (logo was designed mostly by the band).

• My art was displayed & sold at uni-t in Natick Mall.

• Top 10% & final round contestant of the Greenpoint Gallery's National Juried Art Competition (2015).