Michael Winikoff

Michael Winikoff

Mastodon @profwinikoff@mastodon.nz
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Followers
52
Account age
3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

3
Avg engagement / post
5.8%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Sign the petition: Join the fight to end fossil fuels - save our · 8 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.09 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1×
Follows 51 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Sign the petition: Join the fight to end fossil fuels - save our oil and gas ban. #NZGreens https://action.greens.org.nz/saveoilandgasban?recruiter_id=221290 ★ 8
Five years ago I gave an invited talk on AI myths. How well has it held up? Here is a (brief) 2026 update, including some things that I think everyone should know about LLMs. https://youtu.be/5bwTOY6aa3s ★ 1 Thrilled to be attending the 25th(!) AAMAS this week (although online, rather than in-person). I have attended most AAMAS since the first in 2002. At this conference I have a number of papers at the EMAS workshop, and a poster and paper a… ★ 2 Weird … the Xitter account that I haven’t touched since late 2022 was just suspended for “inauthentic behaviour”. Anyone else experiencing similar? I suspect someone reported it for something, but of course I’ve got no idea what. ★ 1 https://youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ?si=PNT9qCOkC4GvEqB6 https://theconversation.com/the-ai-boom-feels-eerily-similar-to-2000s-dotcom-crash-with-some-important-differences-269472?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com Seems a good time to (re-)post my *2017* opinion piece on super intelligence and AGI - still relevant, still valid. https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/people/opinion-who-believes-in-superintelligence ★ 1 https://www.csoonline.com/article/4077438/manipulating-the-meeting-notetaker-the-rise-of-ai-summarization-optimization.html Whenever I run a meeting that has minutes I always read the draft minutes before sharing - I guess this becomes eve… https://bbc.com/travel/article/20250926-the-perils-of-letting-ai-plan-your-next-trip https://theconversation.com/generative-ai-is-not-a-calculator-for-words-5-reasons-why-this-idea-is-misleading-263323?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com Position (permanent): Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Information Management at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. My school is advertising for an academic position. Note: deadline 9th June, "We can only consider applicants… ★ 7 Delighted to share our most recent paper: "A Scoresheet for Explainable AI" (with John Thangarajah and Sebastian Rodriguez, both at RMIT University). It will be presented at AAMAS later this month. 🎬 Short YouTube summary (5 minutes): ht…

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
mastodon.nz
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

80/100 Excellent
  • Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~5.8% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
97%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Husband, father, professor & ex-Head of School of Information Management at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Previously at Otago Info. Science. Researches #AutonomousSystems including engineering (design, implementation techniques), and explanation (#XAI). Also musician (#piano, #choir, #composer), keen reader & board gamer. VUW profile: https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/michael.winikoff Private webpage: https://michaelwinikoff.com/ Music: https://winikoffmusic.wordpress.com/

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