I'm happy to say AntConc 4.3.0 for Win, MacOS, and Linux is now released, including the new ChatAI feature from recent beta versions. ChatAI allows you to interact with various LLMs and get insights on traditional corpus results. I hope you like it!

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation today at the Queensland Govt. AI Community of Practice. The topic of running DeepSeek-R1 and other AI models seems very timely as we had a huge turnout—300 people! I'll be making the slides and materials publicly available soon.

@leighmcdowell Hi! Can you message me the details?

@leighmcdowell Yes, very much enjoying the sabbatical, especially as I can also enjoy this fantastic city.

Happy to announce that I’ve just started a new contract position as an Educational AI Advisor for the Queensland Government. Many thanks to Marco Fahmi (@dataronin) for setting this up. For anyone wondering, I'm still also a full-time professor at Waseda University in Japan!

Hi everyone. Here's an event that I'll be presenting at in March 2025. I'll be talking about "AI-Assisted Concordancing: From Search Support to Pattern Profiling" where I'll demonstrate AI models runnning locally in #AntConc (no OpenAI account needed).

Hi everyone. It's a big honor to be giving a plenary at the CL2025 conference this year. If you're thinking of going, the deadline for regular submissions is Friday, Jan 17, 2025. Maybe I'll see you in Birmingham!

@karpathy @karpathy I love your work, but I think LLMs do way more than this. We can ask them a question that is clearly not in the training data and they still provide answer. I thought the RLHF was to get them to respond to a 'question like' prompt with an 'answer like' response.

@DrCrosthwaite Sounds good! Looking forward to catching up.

@leighmcdowell UQ and the city of Brisbane as a whole are really lovely. Here's a picture taken *inside* the UQ campus!

@lukaszpakula "The dog barked at the moon <EOS>" - But, I was lucky. I actually had a sentence about dogs in the training data!

@MichaMahlberg @jtauber @UniFAU I wish I could have been there. But, I am looking forward to coming back next March.

I have to give a huge thanks to @karpathy. His video series explaining micrograd really is the best out there if you want to understand the calculus behind these models.

@WangxsNB Thanks, Axis. Very much appreciated!

@paulosalem @MatthewBerman @Microsoft This is a fantastic innovation. I can see many possible applications. I’ll try to create a few cases and put them in the examples folder. Great work!

@mark51192 Thank you! The speakers go a bit over the top, but the explanations might be useful for people new to the field.