Weekly Review 11 July 2025

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):

1. Can AI help improve employee retention? Would managers be happy about what it might reveal? https://www.datasciencecentral.com/utilize-machine-learning-to-improve-employee-retention-rates/
2. This clown is woefully unqualified for his role, why is his failure to roll out AI in a meaningful way surprising? https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/697129/rfk-jr-ai
3. How to use AI to get a job in tech: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4015573/robert-half-exec-details-how-to-use-ai-to-snag-a-tech-job-and-what-not-to-do.html
4. Copyright law as it pertains to music poses a genuine threat to AI: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/695290/suno-udio-ai-music-legal-copyright-riaa
5. I've been saying for a long time that LLM AI don't "know" what they're talking about, that there is a difference between talking about something and knowing what that thing is: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_models_potemkin_understanding/
6. By 2030 AI will be able to perform the kinds of tasks that would take a human a month: https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-model-performance
7. Most office AI agents can't do they tasks they are applied to, and aren't even AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/
8. AI might destroy some jobs, but the market for people with AI skills is growing: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/ai_skills_job_postings_comptia/
9. Heat reflective paint designed by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/02/ai-helps-find-formula-for-paint-to-keep-buildings-cooler
10. People with empathise with people, and with AI if they think it's a person. But not if they know it's an AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/people_have_empathy_with_ai/
11. People are almost competing over who can predict the largest job losses that AI will bring about: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/ai-job-predictions-become-corporate-americas-newest-competitive-sport/
12. Google's new AI tools for education. But will they stop students cheating? https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/google-embraces-ai-in-the-classroom-with-new-gemini-tools-for-educators-chatbots-for-students-and-more/
13. AI are improving in medical diagnostics. Cue legions of malpractice lawyers grinning maniacally: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/30/microsoft-ai-system-better-doctors-diagnosing-health-conditions-research
14. AI call centre assistants are not that helpful: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/02/call_center_ai_assistants/
15. AI makes people worse at picking stocks: https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/02/ai-made-executives-worse-at-stock-picking/
16. People are always going to use AI to cut corners/costs, but when it's generating subtitles the use of AI is going to be pretty obvious: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/696819/crunchyroll-ran-embarrassingly-bad-chatgpt-subtitles-on-its-new-anime-series
17. AI do not make good business owners: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/anthropics-claude-ai-became-a-terrible-business-owner-in-experiment-that-got-weird/
18. Using AI for advertising banner design-bringing slop into the real world! https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/03/harnessing-ai-for-creative-banner-designs/
19. Community notes was actually a decent idea, to at least somewhat stop misinformation. But if they're done by AI, they can be abused to push one narrative over others: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/x-is-piloting-a-program-that-lets-ai-chatbots-generate-community-notes/
20. AI are exponentially improving with regards to the tasks they can perform. How long will this rate of improvement continue? https://spectrum.ieee.org/llm-benchmarking-metr
21. Overusing AI can make you dumber, but there are ways you can use it to help your brain not harm it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4016221/the-one-secret-to-using-genai-to-boost-your-brain.html
22. More jobs are going at Microsoft, at least partly due to increased use of AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-layoffs-gaming-ai-restructuring/
23. AI can now outperform human doctors in medical diagnoses: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-medical-ai-outperforms-physicians/
24. If this really is an AI generated band, then the fact that it's hard to tell means the music industry is going to face problems: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-velvet-sundown-unveiling-ais-center-stage-act