Weekly Review 18 July 2025

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

1. An arms race is happening, between the AI cheaters and the AI cheat detectors: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/why-cluelys-roy-lee-isnt-sweating-cheating-detectors/
2. When will artificial general intelligence arrive? Sometime after we can define what it means: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/agi-may-be-impossible-to-define-and-thats-a-multibillion-dollar-problem/
3. I think if I left my online shopping to an AI, I'd end up with 15 copies of books I already own: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/genai-as-a-shopping-assistant-set-to-explode-during-prime-day-sales/
4. How AI is being used by terrorists-not terminators, but for recruitment and fund raising: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/08/terrorist-groups-artificial-intelligence
5. The problem here isn't that the paper authors are trying to fool an AI, it's that reviewers are using AI to do the reviews for them: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/scholars_try_to_fool_llm_reviewers/
6. How gaming can be a way of cutting through AI hype: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/ai_scores_a_huge_own/
7. This is one of the real dangers of AI, using them to mislead and manipulate people: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360751040/impostor-uses-ai-impersonate-rubio-and-contact-foreign-and-us-officials
8. It seems an unfortunate part of New Zealand culture that we tend to be more ahead in social matters, and more behind in technological matters. AI is no exception to this: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360754851/we-need-more-human-intelligence-we-try-figure-out-artificial-intelligence
9. AI hallucination as creativity: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/chatgpt-made-up-a-product-feature-out-of-thin-air-so-this-company-created-it/
10. An AI-generated home cleaning schedule: https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/360748878/ai-cleaning-my-house-and-its-been-total-game-changer
11. Even though investment in AI continues, higher level executives are starting to lose interest: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/csuite_sours_on_ai/
12. Using AI to translate Chinese to sign language is a difficult problem: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/china_ai_sign_language_translation/
13. When talking about AI generated videos, thr image caption "Bible stories are being reimagined through the Americanised lens of fuckboy vlog culture" might just be the best I've ever seen: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/07/what-if-jesus-was-a-vlogger-the-ai-bible-stories-flooding-social-media
14. How to avoid AI making you stupid: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/09/how-to-keep-ai-from-making-your-employees-stupid/
15. The emerging role of agentic AI in software engineering: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-agentic-ai-reshapes-your-development/
16. High school students using AI to cheat is a growing problem in New Zealand: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ai-driven-exam-breaches-surge-as-schools-grapple-with-cheating-top-principals-warning/5PTARAXHCNAJ7O2ZGWQQKI4L2A/
17. How to transition into AI even if your background is not tech: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-ways-to-transition-into-ai-from-a-non-tech-background
18. Manipulation of people-including emotional manipulation-is the real danger of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/12/i-felt-pure-unconditional-love-the-people-who-marry-their-ai-chatbots
19. AI will put everyone out of work in 20 years: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/futurist-adam-dorr-robots-ai-jobs-replace-human-labour
20. Nonexistent caselaw, hallucinated from an AI, causes a court ruling to be thrown out: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/georgia_appeals_court_ai_caselaw/
21. While AI is a useful tool, decisions should always be backed up by a human: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/ai_wimbledon_fail/
22. An image recognition AI that more closely approximates the human visual system: https://spectrum.ieee.org/topographic-neural-network
23. Stealing cryptocurrency with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ai_agents_automatically_steal_cryptocurrency/
24. Semantic layers provide a better way for AI to access data: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/08/rethinking-ai-ready-data-with-semantic-layers/