- The US tax service wants to use AI for collections enforcement. This is not going to end well: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/the_irs_plans_to_replace/
- Not content with crashing half the planet in 2024, CrowStrike now wants to lean even more on AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/crowdstrike_trims_workforce_ai/
- The major problem facing organisations wanting to roll out generative AI is a lack of a skilled workforce: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/05/06/these-are-the-top-chadllenges-to-genai-adoption-according-to-aws/
- Google's AI tools that protect against scammers: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/08/google-rolls-out-ai-tools-to-protect-chrome-users-against-scams/
- It is not safe to rely on AI chatbots for therapy: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/07/experts-warn-therapy-ai-chatbots-are-not-safe-to-use
- University instructors want to use AI, but want more guidance and support in doing so: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2025/05/08/professors-using-ai-need-more-administrative-support
- AI generated vulnerability reports are overwhelming open source projects: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/open-source-project-curl-is-sick-of-users-submitting-ai-slop-vulnerabilities/
- AI companies want to use AI to evaluate therapeutic drugs: https://dataconomy.com/2025/05/08/openai-and-xai-talking-ai-drug-evaluation-with-fda/
- Three free courses on generative AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/3-excellent-practical-generative-ai-courses
- Amazon's AI tool to improve product listings. I'm not sure "improve" is the right word here: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/08/amazons-newest-ai-tool-is-designed-to-enhance-product-listings/
- A sci-fi conference used AI to screen potential panellists. This has upset a lot of people: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/worldcon_uses_ai/
- Chain of Thought Reasoning to improve the performance of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/chain-of-thought-prompting
- AI are not neutral third parties, they will be used to manipulate people: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/schneier_ai_models/
- Do not rely on AI chatbots for health advice: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/people-struggle-to-get-useful-health-advice-from-chatbots-study-finds/
- AI training causes spikes in power demand. Ways of hardening the grid against these spikes are needed: https://spectrum.ieee.org/supercapacitor-2671883490
- If you want an AI that doesn't need prompt engineering, start with the data: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-to-design-llms-that-dont-need-prompt-engineering/
- People who use AI more in their work have poorer professional reputations: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-use-damages-professional-reputation-study-suggests/
- Securing AI applications: https://www.kdnuggets.com/securing-machine-learning-application-with-authentication-and-user-management
- Asking an AI to be more concise makes it more likely to hallucinate: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/08/asking-chatbots-for-short-answers-can-increase-hallucinations-study-finds/
- It is better to be more discerning about which data you use to build an AI, rather than just shovelling everything in: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/05/07/how-to-build-a-lean-ai-strategy-with-data/
- Why current cloud governance practices are hindering the growth of AI: https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/cloud-governance-in-the-age-of-ai
- Open source AI models discriminate against women when used for recruitment: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/02/open_source_ai_models_gender_bias/
- LinkedIn's AI powered job search tool: https://www.theverge.com/news/662490/linkedin-ai-job-search-tool-availability
- Some AI companies will certainly fail. But those companies that provide useful services will survive and thrive: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3980239/will-genai-businesses-crash-and-burn.html
Friday, May 16, 2025
Weekly Review 16 May 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Soft Computing, Volume 29, Issue 6, March 2025
Author(s): Juan Manuel Cornejo, Hernán Javier San Martín, Valeria Anahí Sígal
Pages: 2517 - 2529
Author(s): Qi Shi, Yan-Lan Zhang
Pages: 2531 - 2550
Author(s): S. Saidi Goraghani, R. A. Borzooei
Pages: 2551 - 2562
Author(s): Nikita Saha, Randhir Singh
Pages: 2563 - 2579
Author(s): A. P. Singh, S. P. Tiwari, I. Perfilieva
Pages: 2581 - 2593
Author(s): Chuan Yue
Pages: 2595 - 2618
Author(s): Ankur Rai, Dushmanta Kumar Das
Pages: 2619 - 2638
Author(s): M. Eugenia Cornejo, Jesús Medina, Andreja Tepavčević
Pages: 2639 - 2651
Author(s): Lu Yang
Pages: 2653 - 2668
Author(s): Ehsan Zanboori
Pages: 2669 - 2686
Author(s): Çağatay Çetinkaya
Pages: 2687 - 2714
Author(s): Kai Wu, Chao Zhang, Vincenzo Loia
Pages: 2715 - 2725
Author(s): Wan Tian, Zhongfeng Qin, Tao Hu
Pages: 2727 - 2741
Author(s): Dipankar Chakraborty, Sarbari Samanta, Dipak Kumar Jana
Pages: 2743 - 2767
Author(s): N. Micheal Mathavavisakan, K. Indhira, Sherif I. Ammar
Pages: 2769 - 2790
Author(s): Xin Yu, Zhongwei Chen, Zhi-Ping Fan
Pages: 2791 - 2806
Author(s): Chunxiao Zhang, Hejiao Shen, Chao Yan
Pages: 2807 - 2817
Author(s): Sahar Rahdar, Reza Ghanbari, Donya Heidari
Pages: 2819 - 2828
Author(s): Einollah Pira, Alireza Rouhi
Pages: 2829 - 2844
Author(s): Bahar Javan Molaei, Mohssen Ghanavati-Nejad, Mohammad Sheikhalishahi
Pages: 2845 - 2866
Author(s): Yuan-Kai Hu, Fang Liu, Shi-Shan Wang
Pages: 2867 - 2884
Author(s): Nilesh Mundlik, Mayur Kshirsagar
Pages: 2885 - 2889
Author(s): Fırat Artuğer
Pages: 2891 - 2903
Author(s): Madhuri Badole, Anuradha Thakare, Diego Oliva
Pages: 2905 - 2929
Author(s): Min Wang, Jie-Sheng Wang, Yu-Cai Wang
Pages: 2931 - 2969
Author(s): Ke Wang, Kun Zheng, Ying Wang
Pages: 2971 - 2982
Author(s): Zhao Zhang, Xiaohong Jiao
Pages: 2983 - 2997
Author(s): Maddikera Krishna Reddy, Anusha Sowbarnika Veluswamy, Syed Shameem
Pages: 2999 - 3020
Author(s): Zihua Chen, Runmei Zhang, Kuan-ching Li
Pages: 3021 - 3034
Author(s): Siyi Zhang, Tong Che, Ping Feng
Pages: 3035 - 3045
Author(s): Sebastian-Ion Ceptureanu, Eduard-Gabriel Ceptureanu, Adriana Lavinia Iancu
Pages: 3047 - 3062
Author(s): Mauro Gallegati, Silvia Gallegati
Pages: 3063 - 3072
Author(s): Maryam Shams Solary
Pages: 3073 - 3082
Author(s): Alessio Brini, Viviana Fanelli
Pages: 3083 - 3095
Author(s): Samar Bouazizi, Hela Ltifi
Pages: 3097 - 3114
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 6, Issue 5, May 2025
1) A Comparative Review of Deep Learning Techniques on the Classification of Irony and Sarcasm in Text
Author(s): Leonidas Boutsikaris, Spyros Polykalas
Pages: 1052 - 1066
Author(s): Raphael Ronge, Bernhard Bauer, Benjamin Rathgeber
Pages: 1067 - 1079
Author(s): Weijian Mai, Jian Zhang, Pengfei Fang, Zhijun Zhang
Pages: 1080 - 1099
Author(s): Yaganteeswarudu Akkem, Saroj Kumar Biswas
Pages: 1100 - 1113
Author(s): Kun Jiang, Min Hua, Xu He, Lu Dong, Quan Zhou, Hongming Xu, Changyin Sun
Pages: 1114 - 1127
Author(s): Jin Zheng, Qing Gao, Daoyi Dong, Jinhu Lü, Yue Deng
Pages: 1128 - 1142
Author(s): Chengting Yu, Fengzhao Zhang, Ruizhe Chen, Aili Wang, Zuozhu Liu, Shurun Tan, Er-Ping Li
Pages: 1143 - 1155
Author(s): Wenjie Sun, Chengke Wu, Qinge Xiao, Junjie Jiang, Yuanjun Guo, Ying Bi, Xinyu Wu, Zhile Yang
Pages: 1156 - 1170
Author(s): Carlo Alberto Barbano, Enzo Tartaglione, Marco Grangetto
Pages: 1171 - 1183
Author(s): Yongzheng Zhu, Liangrui Ren, Rong Sun, Jun Wang, Guoxian Yu
Pages: 1184 - 1193
Author(s): Zi-Yu Khoo, Dawen Wu, Jonathan Sze Choong Low, Stéphane Bressan
Pages: 1194 - 1202
Author(s): Changping Li, Bingshu Wang, Jiangbin Zheng, Yongjun Zhang, C.L. Philip Chen
Pages: 1203 - 1216
Author(s): Mohammad Alali, Mahdi Imani
Pages: 1217 - 1232
Author(s): Gurinder Singh, Kapil Rana, Puneet Goyal, Sathish Kumar
Pages: 1233 - 1247
Author(s): Mourad Nachaoui, Fatma Manlaikhaf, Soufiane Lyaqini
Pages: 1248 - 1258
Author(s): Supparesk Rittikulsittichai, Thitirat Siriborvornratanakul
Pages: 1259 - 1268
Author(s): Xiao-Cheng Liao, Xiao-Min Hu, Xiang-Ling Chen, Yi Mei, Ya-Hui Jia, Wei-Neng Chen
Pages: 1269 - 1283
Author(s): Linghao Kong, Wenjian Luo, Zipeng Ye, Qi Zhou, Yan Jia
Pages: 1284 - 1297
Author(s): Yunfei Yin, Zheng Yuan, Yu He, Xianjian Bao
Pages: 1298 - 1308
Author(s): Weihao Li, Lei Shi, Mengji Shi, Jiangfeng Yue, Boxian Lin, Kaiyu Qin
Pages: 1309 - 1320
Author(s): Khoi Do, Minh-Duong Nguyen, Nguyen Tien Hoa, Long Tran-Thanh, Nguyen H. Tran, Quoc-Viet Pham
Pages: 1321 - 1333
Author(s): Namita Bajpai, Jiaul H. Paik, Sudeshna Sarkar
Pages: 1334 - 1344
Author(s): Xuemeng Hui, Zhunga Liu, Jiaxiang Liu, Zuowei Zhang, Longfei Wang
Pages: 1345 - 1359
Author(s): Shuyue Wang, Zhunga Liu, Zuowei Zhang, Mohammed Bennamoun
Pages: 1360 - 1372
Author(s): Yong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang, Zhiheng Ma, Dongmei Jiang, Yaowei Wang
Pages: 1373 - 1385
Author(s): Zhipeng Chen, Xinyi Wang, Ling Shen, Jinshi Liu, Jianjun He, Jilin Zhu, Weihua Gui
Pages: 1386 - 1400
Author(s): Bin Hu, Zhi-Hong Guan, Guanrong Chen, Jürgen Kurths
Pages: 1401 - 1413
Author(s): Gargi V. Pillai, Debashis Sen
Pages: 1414 - 1428
Author(s): Ming Xu, Tuo Shi, Hao Zhang, Zeyi Liu, Xiao He
Pages: 1429 - 1438
Author(s): Bernhard C. Geiger, Roman Kern
Pages: 1439 - 1445
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 33, Issue 5, May 2025
Author(s): Xiaona Song, Peng Sun, Shuai Song, Choon Ki Ahn
Pages: 1402 - 1414
Author(s): Keke Huang, Xinyu Ying, Dehao Wu, Chunhua Yang, Weihua Gui
Pages: 1415 - 1428
Author(s): Murong Zhou, Baifu Zuo, Guohua Wang, Gongning Luo, Fanding Li, Suyu Dong, Wei Wang, Kuanquan Wang, Xiangyu Li, Lifeng Xu
Pages: 1429 - 1440
Author(s): Shuli Yan, Yizhao Xu, Zaiwu Gong, Enrique Herrera-Viedma
Pages: 1441 - 1454
Author(s): Zhibin Zhu, Yunbiao Jiang, Zhongxin Liu, Fuyong Wang
Pages: 1455 - 1465
Author(s): Xian Du, Xu Yuan, Bin Yang, Xudong Zhao
Pages: 1466 - 1474
Author(s): Dong Xu, Yajuan Liu, Sangmoon Lee
Pages: 1475 - 1487
Author(s): Sha Fan, Min Meng, Yukai Fu, Chao Deng
Pages: 1488 - 1498
Author(s): Cheng-Cheng Feng, Hao-Yuan Sun, Hong-Gui Han, Sheng-Li Du
Pages: 1499 - 1509
Author(s): Yan Li, Xingchen Hu, Shengju Yu, Weiping Ding, Witold Pedrycz, Yeo Chai Kiat, Zhong Liu
Pages: 1510 - 1524
Author(s): Qinwei Fan, Deqing Ji
Pages: 1525 - 1539
Author(s): En-Zhi Cao, Chen Peng, Xiangpeng Xie, Yi Yang
Pages: 1540 - 1554
Author(s): Yezheng Wang, Zidong Wang, Lei Zou, Quanbo Ge, Hongli Dong
Pages: 1555 - 1567
Author(s): Kewen Li, Xiao Liu
Pages: 1568 - 1577
15) Selecting Central and Divergent Samples via Leading Tree Metric Space for Semisupervised Learning
Author(s): Ji Xu, Gang Ren, Jianhang Tang, Weiping Ding, Guoyin Wang
Pages: 1578 - 1591
16) Online Streaming Feature Selection Using Bidirectional Complementarity Based on Fuzzy Gini Entropy
Author(s): Chucai Zhang, Zhengxiang Lu, Yongkang Zhang, Jianhua Dai
Pages: 1592 - 1604
17) On Dissipativity-Preserving for Switched Positive Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Delayed Systems via Switching
Author(s): Peng Wang, Hong Sang, Chuangxia Huang, Jinde Cao, Mahmoud Abdel-Aty
Pages: 1605 - 1616
Author(s): Weiping Liu, Youfa Liu, He Li, Jingui Zou
Pages: 1617 - 1626
Author(s): Lulu Zhang, Huaguang Zhang, Jiayue Sun, Zhongyang Ming
Pages: 1627 - 1638
Author(s): Yao Xu, Zui Chen, Wenxue Li, Yongbao Wu
Pages: 1639 - 1649
Author(s): Yunlong Cheng, Xiuhua Yang, Qinghua Zhang, Yabin Shao, Guoyin Wang
Pages: 1650 - 1663
22) A Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach to Predict Human Interaction by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Author(s): Xiaowei Jiang, Liang Ou, Yanan Chen, Na Ao, Yu-Cheng Chang,
Thomas Do, Chin-Teng Lin
Pages: 1664 - 1677
23) Probabilistic Linguistic Convolutional Neural Network Dealing With Low-Quality Image Classification
Author(s): Xiangyu Xiao, Zeshui Xu, Weidong Gan, Tong Wu, Yuanhang Zheng
Pages: 1678 - 1690
Author(s): Dongxue Jiang, Guoguang Wen, Sara Ifqir, Ahmed Rahmani, Christophe Sueur, Tingwen Huang
Pages: 1691 - 1697
Monday, May 12, 2025
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 11, Issue 5, May 2025
Author(s): Jinxu Zhang, Jin Liu, Junxiang Wang
Author(s): Haolin Chang, Zhihua Xie, Fan Yang
Author(s): Chen Boying, Shi Jie
Author(s): Shupei Jiao, Hua Huo, Dongfang Li
Author(s): Zheng Zhang, Xiao-Yun Xia, Jun Zhang
Author(s): Xia Xue, Feilong Wang, Baoli Wang
Author(s): Fahim Ud Din, Sheeza Nawaz, Fairouz Tchier
Author(s): Xiang Li, Hongguang Zhang
Author(s): Yanyi Liu, Qingwen Yang, Yingyou Wen
Author(s): Hanqing Liu, Zhigang Ren, Wenhao Du
Author(s): Youhua Zhou, Xueming Yan, Fangqing Liu
Author(s): Feng Yin, Bin Cao
Author(s): Feifan Yao, Huiying Zhang, Pan Xiao
Author(s): Haoyu Wang, Qianxi Wu, Guohui Zhou
Author(s): Zhenzu Bai, Haiyin Zhou, Jiongqi Wang
Author(s): Yao Zheng, Jingyuan Li, Yuanzhuo Wang
Author(s): Nicholas Kaliszewski, Romeo Marian, Javaan Chahl
Author(s): Yanying Mao, Qun Liu, Yu Zhang
Author(s): Jianping Fan, Zhuxuan Jin, Meiqin Wu
Author(s): Kangshun Li, RuoLin RuanHui, Wang
Author(s): Xiaokang Yang, Kai Zhang, Zhiheng Zhang
Author(s): Bin Yang, Lei Ding, Bo Liu
Author(s): Huizhen Zhang, Zhenwei Fang, Xinyan Zeng
Author(s): Aiting Yao, Huang Chen, Xuejun Li
Author(s): Huiyao Dong, Igor Kotenko, Shimin Dong
26) Self-attention-based graph transformation learning for anomaly detection in multivariate time series
Author(s): Qiushi Wang, Yueming Zhu, Yunbin Ma
Author(s): Baotian Li, Jing Zhou, Jia Wu
Author(s): Yu Peng, Erchao Li
Author(s): Yanling Chen, Jingyi Wei, Jie Zhou
Author(s): Xiaoting Dong, Guangxi Wan, Peng Zeng
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Friday, May 9, 2025
Weekly Review 9 May 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- A brief history of the British AI Winter: https://spectrum.ieee.org/freddy-robot-british-ai-winter
- A brief description of some popular open source AI tools: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-open-source-ai-tools-that-are-worth-your-time
- AI now will lie if it allows them to accomplish their goals: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/ai_models_lie_research/
- On the need for governance of internal AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/04/29/why-we-must-govern-ai-used-inside-tech-companies/
- The use of AI has made some tasks more efficient, but creates extra work that eats up the time saved: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests/
- So far, AI has not had a significant effect on jobs or wages: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/generative_ai_no_effect_jobs_wages/
- The energy demands of AI is contributing to pollution that is impacting human health: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-centers-pollution
- 30% of Microsoft's new code is written by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/microsoft_meta_autocoding/ Well, MS software was never that secure to begin with...
- The advantages of AI PCs: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3975373/what-is-an-ai-pc-the-power-of-artificial-intelligence-locally.html
- Avoiding ethical problems in your AI projects: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-ethics-advice
- Can AI generated art ever really be art? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-art-whitney-museum
- The impact of AI on data centres: https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/how-ai-is-transforming-data-centers
- AI is using more and more energy. Can improvements in efficiency offset this growth? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy
- The security risks of AI: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/04/25/three-ways-ai-can-weaken-your-cybersecurity/
- Don't use AI write your job application: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360664623/thinking-using-ai-write-your-job-application-think-again
- Reasoning AI don't reason all that well at the moment: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/new-study-shows-why-simulated-reasoning-ai-models-dont-yet-live-up-to-their-billing/
- Designing university curricula in the age of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/04/30/three-laws-curriculum-design-ai-age-opinion
- Google's search AI will make things up rather than admit it doesn't know the answer: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/google-searchs-made-up-ai-explanations-for-sayings-no-one-ever-said-explained/
- AI generated code is not safe! https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/ai-generated-code-could-be-a-disaster-for-the-software-supply-chain-heres-why/
- You'd think a lawyer would know better than to use AI to write a legal brief: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/mypillow-ceos-lawyers-used-ai-in-brief-citing-fictional-cases-judge-says/
- AI driven writing suggestions run the risk of making us all sound the same: https://dataconomy.com/2025/05/01/is-ai-making-us-all-write-the-same/
- Software quality assurance with AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-generative-ai-is-reshaping-traditional-qa-strategies/
- How to help IT workers avoid burnout in the age of AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3854464/how-to-keep-tech-workers-engaged-in-the-age-of-ai.html
- Workers are more keen on AI than consumers are, according to a survey: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-kpmg-ai-survey/
Friday, May 2, 2025
Weekly Review 2 May 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- The hunger of AI for computing power means that high-end data centres will soon be ruinously expensive to build: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/within-six-years-building-the-leading-ai-data-center-may-cost-200b/
- Some free books on AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-free-machine-learning-books-for-2025
- Anthropic is jumping on the explainable AI band wagon: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/anthropic-ceo-wants-to-open-the-black-box-of-ai-models-by-2027/
- Organisations should make decisions based on data, but there are many things that can do wrong in the process: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/whats-wrong-with-data-based-decision-making/
- Detecting drunk drivers with AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/students-device-deters-drunk-driving
- AI can now pass engineering exams. Teachers need to adapt to this, it's not going to go away so assessments need to change: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/whats_worth_teaching_when_ai/
- So the Academy doesn't care if AI is used to create movies now? https://www.theverge.com/news/653504/oscars-film-award-rule-change-ai When will the first AI generated film win an Oscar?
- Meta will use AI to detect accounts that belong to kids, and use that information to change the account settings. I wonder what the false-positive rate is? https://www.theverge.com/news/651826/meta-instagram-age-detection-ai-settings
- An overview of geometric deep learning, a way of extending AI into non-Euclidean data: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/geometric-deep-learning-ai-beyond-text-images/
- AI can be a real villain to the environment, but it can also be a hero: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-sustainability-earth-day-2025/
- The problems with crowdsourced AI benchmarks: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/22/crowdsourced-ai-benchmarks-have-serious-flaws-some-experts-say/
- The problem with censorship is, it ends up using resources that could be used to make your AI better: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/22/a-chinese-ai-video-startup-appears-to-be-blocking-politically-sensitive-images/
- The benefits of Edge AI, that is, AI on-site rather than in the cloud: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/edge-ai-is-it-right-for-your-business-
- Developments in licensing of training data for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/uk_publishing_body_launches_ai/
- Some of the questions in the California Bar law exam were written by AI: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/ai-secretly-helped-write-california-bar-exam-sparking-uproar/
- AI is a good tool for working with data. Ecological and conservation data is just one more area where AI is useful, I was doing so 20 years ago: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/653322/ai-wildlife-conservation
- A pain assessment tool that utilises AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/04/24/ai-powered-pain-assessment-korean-researchers-develop-new-surgical-tool/
- Another AI that can't really deliver what is promised about it: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/654223/cheat-on-everything-ai
- AI is a tool, would you give a screwdriver worker's rights? https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/04/24/does-ai-deserve-worker-rights/
- Some simple projects to dip your toes into AI: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/low-cost-ai-projects-a-great-way-to-get-started
- An actually open AI from OpenAI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/openai-wants-its-open-ai-model-to-call-models-in-the-cloud-for-help/
- China is really going all-out on bringing AI into everyday life: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/humanoid-workers-and-surveillance-buggies-embodied-ai-is-reshaping-daily-life-in-china
- Using AI to detect the kind of errors in chips that crop up in data centres: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-centers
- How AI is changing SEO: https://dataconomy.com/2025/04/24/the-future-of-seo-how-googles-ai-updates-are-changing-the-game/
Monday, April 21, 2025
Soft Computing. Volume 29, Issue 5, March 2025
Author(s): Leelavathi Arepalli, Venkata Rao Kasukiurthi, Madhavi Dabbiru
Pages: 2399 - 2415
Author(s): Natalie Ferraz Silva Bravo, André Ferreira Martins...Jairo Francisco de Souza
Pages: 2417 - 2431
Author(s): Geetha P, Satyasai Jagannath Nanda, Rajendra Prasad Yadav
Pages: 2433 - 2461
Author(s): Geetha P, Satyasai Jagannath Nanda, Rajendra Prasad Yadav
Pages: 2463 - 2463
Author(s): Samayveer Singh, Aridaman Singh Nandan...Pradeep Kumar Singh
Pages: 2465 - 2482
Author(s): Ladislav Zjavka
Pages: 2483 - 2495
Author(s): Jinaga Tulasiram, Balaji Banothu, S. Nickolas
Pages: 2497 - 2513
Author(s): Jun Wang, Dongxu Luo...Zhiwu Li
Pages: 2515 - 2515
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Saturday, April 19, 2025
Weekly Review 25 April 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- How AI can help with taxes and financial planning: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/04/18/the-transformative-role-of-ai-in-financial-planning-and-tax-preparation/
- Actors who sold their likenesses for AI avatars are regretting doing so: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/regrets-actors-who-sold-ai-avatars-stuck-in-black-mirror-esque-dystopia/
- AI is widely used in the New Zealand public sector, mostly because it helps them with their work: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/558081/ai-widely-used-in-public-sector-survey-finds
- One-bit neural network weights, to reduce the memory footprints of large AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/microsoft-researchers-create-super%e2%80%91efficient-ai-that-uses-up-to-96-less-energy/
- The role of Chief AI Officer is expected to become more prominent in coming years: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-will-the-role-of-chief-ai-officer-evolve-in-2025-
- How AI is affecting the creative professions: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-ais-latest-advancements-could-reshape-creative-professions-the-front-page/NVIPGTLUR5GVFDBUN4FWJW23EE/
- AI agent hallucinates new policy, upsets users to the point of cancelling subscriptions: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/cursor-ai-support-bot-invents-fake-policy-and-triggers-user-uproar/
- AI models get more advanced, but they just hallucinate more: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/openais-new-reasoning-ai-models-hallucinate-more/
- Wikipedia got so hammered by AI training bots scraping the site, they have released a data set optimised for training AI to Kaggle: https://www.theverge.com/news/650467/wikipedia-kaggle-partnership-ai-dataset-machine-learning
- Google is using AI to block scammers' ads: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/google-used-ai-to-block-three-times-more-fraudulent-advertisers-in-2024/
- A New Zealand charity is using AI chatbots to help veterans: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/558481/charity-launches-ai-chatbot-therapy-service-for-veterans
- Organisations need to move strategically when rolling out AI, rather than rushing into it: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/the-ai-fomo-trap-build-guardrails-for-the-gold-rush
- AI hardware is using so much power that its driving advances in cooling technology for data centres: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-data-centers-power-cooling-ai/
- Google's AI is learning to speak dolphin: https://www.extremetech.com/science/new-google-llm-aims-to-translate-dolphin-language
- Microsoft's Copilot AI is getting quite annoying: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/18/microsoft_copilot_not_wanted/
- A new approach to combat prompt injection attacks against generative AI: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/researchers-claim-breakthrough-in-fight-against-ais-frustrating-security-hole/
- The key to employing AI effectively in marketing is to carefully train the model: https://dataconomy.com/2025/04/17/training-your-ai-not-just-your-team-a-marketers-guide-to-smarter-campaigns/
- The idea of 'adjusting' - read reducing - AI guardrails because a competitor has done so is rather frightening: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/openai-says-it-may-adjust-its-safety-requirements-if-a-rival-lab-releases-high-risk-ai/
- Seeding AI with misinformation is being used more and more by bad actors: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360659194/russia-seeds-chatbots-lies-and-any-bad-actor-could-game-ai-same-way
- While greater efficiencies in AI can allow more to be done for the same amount of energy, the demand is not necessarily there to do so: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/01/30/tech-tycoons-have-got-the-economics-of-ai-wrong
- I wouldn't describe it as 'thinking with pictures' as AI don't really 'think': https://www.computerworld.com/article/3964968/open-ais-new-models-can-think-with-pictures.html
- AI companies are fine with stealing other people's work, but hate it when someone does the same to them: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/miyazaki_ai_and_intellectual_property/
- Could the use of screenshots help AI learn what is important to users? https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/650809/screenshots-apps-ai-pixel-nothing
- A framework for constructing voice AI agents: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-easiest-way-to-create-real-time-ai-voice-agents
Friday, April 18, 2025
Weekly Review 18 April 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- How you can use AI to help when you are made redundant: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/7-ways-generative-ai-can-help-you-survive-a-layoff No mention of what to do if it is the AI that makes you redundant, though.
- Personalising user interfaces using AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-driven-personalization-is-transforming-user-interface-design/
- Predicting disasters by integrating geospatial data with AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/04/09/googles-new-ai-could-predict-disasters-before-they-hit/
- Is doge using AI to spy on government employees? I wouldn't be surprised: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/10/elon-musk-doge-spying
- Yes, AI can predict traffic accidents. I had a student do it for Auckland a while ago: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/can-ai-predict-traffic-accidents/
- AI can be told to show their reasoning, but now they are lying about it: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/researchers-concerned-to-find-ai-models-hiding-their-true-reasoning-processes/
- Some guidelines for how teachers can deal with students using AI inappropriately: https://www.edutopia.org/article/responding-student-ai-use
- Remember, if your AI system is really contractors in the Philippines, it's fraud: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-to-be-powered-by-humans-in-the-philippines/
- Current AI make good advisors, but humans should always be making the final decision. But people are lazy, so they probably will just do what the machine tells them: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/when-should-human-decision-making-overrule-ai-
- AI don't have value systems, they need guardrails: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/mit-study-finds-that-ai-doesnt-in-fact-have-values/
- The security problems around AI: https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/what-are-the-biggest-blind-spots-for-cios-in-ai-security-
- The New Zealand military is allowed to use killer drones, but AI can't make the kill decisions: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/557573/there-should-always-be-a-human-in-charge-defence-minister-on-nzdf-s-killer-drones
- Fixing the robots.txt protocol to keep AI scraper bots out: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/ietf_ai_preferences_working_group/
- As more AI incorporate reasoning into their models, benchmarking them becomes more expensive: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/the-rise-of-ai-reasoning-models-is-making-benchmarking-more-expensive/
- Automating marking of high school writing assessments using AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/557671/artificial-intelligence-exam-marking-on-the-way-for-year-10-writing-tests
- AI can't replace barristers, but they can help them out: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360641260/ai-having-high-performing-junior-lawyer-says-leading-barrister
- Meta's benchmarks for its new AI are misleading. Colour me surprised: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/06/metas-benchmarks-for-its-new-ai-models-are-a-bit-misleading/
- Ways in which AI is being used in financial planning: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/04/08/how-ai-and-ml-will-change-financial-planning/
- If they're going to use AI to regrant benefits, they need to thoroughly check their training data for bias first: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/557600/ministry-of-social-development-to-use-basic-ai-to-check-if-jobseekers-have-met-their-obligations
- Do we just have to learn to live with hallucinations from AI? https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/04/07/can-we-learn-to-live-with-ai-hallucinations/
- Using AI to raise money for charity: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/a-nonprofit-is-using-ai-agents-to-raise-money-for-charity/
- As of 2025, AI are getting smarter, more money is being spent on them, and people are worrying more about them: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-stanford-2025-ai-index/
- AI might be cool, but don't try to use it in court, judges don't like it: https://www.theverge.com/news/646372/ai-lawyer-artificial-avatar-new-york-court-case-video
- An overview of transformers, the basis of generative AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/wtf-is-a-transformer
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