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 MastodonThreadsNewsmast, and Bluesky):
  1. 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/
  2. 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/
  3. 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/
  4. 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/
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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/
  8. 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/
  9. Three free courses on generative AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/3-excellent-practical-generative-ai-courses
  10. 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/
  11. 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/
  12. Chain of Thought Reasoning to improve the performance of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/chain-of-thought-prompting
  13. AI are not neutral third parties, they will be used to manipulate people: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/schneier_ai_models/
  14. 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/
  15. AI training causes spikes in power demand. Ways of hardening the grid against these spikes are needed: https://spectrum.ieee.org/supercapacitor-2671883490
  16. 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/
  17. 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/
  18. Securing AI applications: https://www.kdnuggets.com/securing-machine-learning-application-with-authentication-and-user-management
  19. 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/
  20. 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/
  21. Why current cloud governance practices are hindering the growth of AI: https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/cloud-governance-in-the-age-of-ai
  22. Open source AI models discriminate against women when used for recruitment: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/02/open_source_ai_models_gender_bias/
  23. LinkedIn's AI powered job search tool: https://www.theverge.com/news/662490/linkedin-ai-job-search-tool-availability
  24. 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

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


Wednesday, May 14, 2025

IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 6, Issue 5, May 2025

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

Author(s): Ji Xu, Gang Ren, Jianhang Tang, Weiping Ding, Guoyin Wang
Pages: 1578 - 1591

Author(s): Chucai Zhang, Zhengxiang Lu, Yongkang Zhang, Jianhua Dai
Pages: 1592 - 1604

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

Author(s): Xiaowei Jiang, Liang Ou, Yanan Chen, Na Ao, Yu-Cheng Chang, 
Thomas Do, Chin-Teng Lin
Pages: 1664 - 1677

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

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

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 MastodonThreadsNewsmast, and Bluesky):
  1. A brief history of the British AI Winter: https://spectrum.ieee.org/freddy-robot-british-ai-winter
  2. A brief description of some popular open source AI tools: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-open-source-ai-tools-that-are-worth-your-time
  3. AI now will lie if it allows them to accomplish their goals: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/ai_models_lie_research/
  4. On the need for governance of internal AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/04/29/why-we-must-govern-ai-used-inside-tech-companies/
  5. 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/
  6. 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/
  7. The energy demands of AI is contributing to pollution that is impacting human health: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-centers-pollution
  8. 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...
  9. The advantages of AI PCs: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3975373/what-is-an-ai-pc-the-power-of-artificial-intelligence-locally.html
  10. Avoiding ethical problems in your AI projects: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-ethics-advice
  11. Can AI generated art ever really be art? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-art-whitney-museum
  12. The impact of AI on data centres: https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/how-ai-is-transforming-data-centers
  13. AI is using more and more energy. Can improvements in efficiency offset this growth? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy
  14. The security risks of AI: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/04/25/three-ways-ai-can-weaken-your-cybersecurity/
  15. 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
  16. 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/
  17. Designing university curricula in the age of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/04/30/three-laws-curriculum-design-ai-age-opinion
  18. 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/
  19. 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/
  20. 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/
  21. 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/
  22. Software quality assurance with AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-generative-ai-is-reshaping-traditional-qa-strategies/
  23. 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
  24. 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 MastodonThreadsNewsmast, and Bluesky):
  1. 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/
  2. Some free books on AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-free-machine-learning-books-for-2025
  3. 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/
  4. 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/
  5. Detecting drunk drivers with AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/students-device-deters-drunk-driving
  6. 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/
  7. 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?
  8. 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
  9. 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/
  10. 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/
  11. The problems with crowdsourced AI benchmarks: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/22/crowdsourced-ai-benchmarks-have-serious-flaws-some-experts-say/
  12. 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/
  13. 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-
  14. Developments in licensing of training data for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/uk_publishing_body_launches_ai/
  15. 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/
  16. 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
  17. A pain assessment tool that utilises AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/04/24/ai-powered-pain-assessment-korean-researchers-develop-new-surgical-tool/
  18. Another AI that can't really deliver what is promised about it: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/654223/cheat-on-everything-ai
  19. AI is a tool, would you give a screwdriver worker's rights? https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/04/24/does-ai-deserve-worker-rights/
  20. 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
  21. 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/
  22. 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
  23. Using AI to detect the kind of errors in chips that crop up in data centres: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-centers
  24. 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

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 MastodonThreadsNewsmast, and Bluesky):
  1. 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/
  2. 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/
  3. 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
  4. 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/
  5. 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-
  6. 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/
  7. 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/
  8. AI models get more advanced, but they just hallucinate more: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/openais-new-reasoning-ai-models-hallucinate-more/
  9. 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
  10. 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/
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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/
  14. Google's AI is learning to speak dolphin: https://www.extremetech.com/science/new-google-llm-aims-to-translate-dolphin-language
  15. Microsoft's Copilot AI is getting quite annoying: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/18/microsoft_copilot_not_wanted/
  16. 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/
  17. 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/
  18. 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/
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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/
  23. 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
  24. 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 MastodonThreadsNewsmast, and Bluesky):
  1. 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.
  2. Personalising user interfaces using AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-driven-personalization-is-transforming-user-interface-design/
  3. Predicting disasters by integrating geospatial data with AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/04/09/googles-new-ai-could-predict-disasters-before-they-hit/
  4. 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
  5. 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/
  6. 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/
  7. Some guidelines for how teachers can deal with students using AI inappropriately: https://www.edutopia.org/article/responding-student-ai-use
  8. 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/
  9. 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-
  10. 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/
  11. The security problems around AI: https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/what-are-the-biggest-blind-spots-for-cios-in-ai-security-
  12. 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
  13. Fixing the robots.txt protocol to keep AI scraper bots out: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/ietf_ai_preferences_working_group/
  14. 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/
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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/
  18. 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/
  19. 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
  20. 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/
  21. Using AI to raise money for charity: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/a-nonprofit-is-using-ai-agents-to-raise-money-for-charity/
  22. 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/
  23. 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
  24. An overview of transformers, the basis of generative AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/wtf-is-a-transformer