- How AI improves efficiency in customer service: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/08/ai-never-clocks-out-how-smart-leaders-are-funding-the-24-7-customer-revolution/
- A list of some web scraping tools, to gather data to train your AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/top-7-ai-web-scraping-tools
- When the AI bubble bursts, things won't look quite so sunny for cloud providers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/google_cloud_ceo_sees_sunny/
- Pricing of AI services are a bit of a mess at the moment, with a lot of customer uncertainty: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/ai_software_licensing_immature/
- The Darwin Awards are being expanded with a new category, for applications of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/ai_darwin_awards/
- Just because it's AI doesn't mean it doesn't have security holes. In this case, they know it has holes, and are pushing security onto the user: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/anthropics-new-claude-feature-can-leak-data-users-told-to-monitor-chats-closely/
- The focus on assessments as outcomes of education has led to the rise of students using AI to do their work for them: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/09/10/ai-we-reap-what-we-sow-opinion
- They might think they're in a relationship with an AI, but really they're in a relationship with a corporation, who just sees them as a source of $$$: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/09/ai-chatbot-love-relationships
- Google's AI summaries are continuing to reduce traffic to news websites: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/06/existential-crisis-google-use-ai-search-upended-web-publishers-models
- The neurodiverse are the big winners out of users of AI: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/study-finds-neurodiverse-workers-more-satisfied-with-ai-assistants/
- How AI is forcing changes in data centres: https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/the-ai-driven-data-center-revolution
- I really don't think it's a good idea to let any industry regulate itself, especially not the AI industry: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/776130/senator-ted-cruz-ai-sandbox-bill
- The settlement of one of the first copyright case over AI training data has been blocked by the judge: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/judge-anthropics-1-5b-settlement-is-being-shoved-down-the-throat-of-authors/
- AI will soon be in everything in IT, but will not replace all IT jobs: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/no-ai-jobs-bloodbath-as-ai-permeates-all-it-work-over-the-next-5-years/
- More tests are being rolled out to benchmark the performance of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mlperf-inference-51
- A push to teach New Zealand school children about AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/572737/new-push-for-ai-as-education-minister-erica-stanford-announces-curriculum-changes
- Conversations with AI can go in many directions, now ChatGPT gives users the ability to go back and select another branch: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/chatgpts-new-branching-feature-is-a-good-reminder-that-ai-chatbots-arent-people/
- AI authored books are becoming a problem for libraries: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ai-books-how-to-tell-a-book-wasnt-written-by-a-human-author/IEWSA2RHFVAUXARVPYJ6BORWTQ/
- Like everything else, if you don't use it you lose it. Using AI to perform your tasks causes your work skills to atrophy: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/gartner_ai_skill_loss_prediction/
- Is AI taking over social media? https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/sam-altman-on-social-media-bot-takeover/
- Using AI to detect speech without speaking, by detecting and interpreting nerve signals: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/alterego-brain-signal-device/
- AI is one of the factors driving job growth: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4051732/ai-and-clean-energy-drive-job-growth-reshape-us-labor-market.html
- More specialised AI hardware is in the pipeline: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-links-up-with-broadcom-to-produce-its-own-ai-chips/
- How much water does AI really consume? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-water-usage
- Why you don't want to depend on AI coding assistants-sometimes the AI service goes down: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage/
- AI being trained on the output of AI, is this the ensloppification of the AI industry? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/
- Will AI reinvigorate the smartphone? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/gartner_ai_phone/
- The roles of AI in car auctions: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/how-ai-is-reshaping-the-billion-dollar-car-auction-industry-beyond-the-gavel/
- Teach kids about AI early: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/572844/professor-calls-for-government-to-begin-ai-education-earlier
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Friday, September 19, 2025
Weekly Review 19 September 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
Friday, September 12, 2025
Weekly Review 12 September 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- A comparison of some AI educational tools: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2025/09/03/ai-companies-roll-out-educational-tools
- Australian lawyer sanctioned after using AI to write a court submission: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep/03/lawyer-caught-using-ai-generated-false-citations-in-court-case-penalised-in-australian-first
- Hiding AI prompt injection attacks in compressed images: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/researchers-find-hackers-can-hide-ai-prompt-attacks-in-compressed-images
- Using AI to detect signs of consciousness in coma patients: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/01/seeme-ai-consciousness-detection/
- Flagging dodgy journals with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/31/ai_spies_questionable_science_journals/
- Impersonating a chatbot that's impersonating a person or how human operators need to back-up AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-a-chatbot-my-life-as-a-real-estate-ais-human-backup
- AI is another tool in the attacker's toolbox: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4048415/the-ai-powered-cyberattack-era-is-here.html
- Even if it's an AI server, you still need to secure it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/exposed_ollama_servers_insecure_research/
- AI code generators speed software production but you still need programmers to sort out the code they produce: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/02/ai-boosts-developer-productivity-human-oversight-still-needed/
- AI is just another tool being used by scammers. When will platforms like Meta actually put a stop to the scammers? Is Meta making money from them? https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360810721/35k-month-guaranteed-fake-luxon-video-targeting-kiwis
- How much will this AI data centre boost India's carbon emissions? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-openai-stargate-india-data-centre/
- When you deploy immature AI technology, the results can be frustrating and hilarious: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/30/taco-bell-is-having-second-thoughts-about-relying-on-ai-at-the-drive-through/
- Wouldn't it be better to build your AI so it doesn't tell people to end themselves? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/571864/chatgpt-to-get-parental-controls-after-teen-s-death
- How CIO need to prepare for AGI: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/it-leadership-takes-on-agi
- Doesn't matter how much computing power you have, if you don't know what you're doing it won't give you a good AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/tesla-dojo-the-rise-and-fall-of-elon-musks-ai-supercomputer/
- When the AI bubble bursts it's going to hurt the data centre operators: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/goldman_sachs_ai_datacenters/
- Now Wordpress is getting and AI website construction tool: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/wordpress-shows-off-telex-its-experimental-ai-development-tool/
- I suspect there are other AI companies that would be more desirable to deal with than Palantir: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/30/coventry-city-council-signs-ai-deal-contract-palantir-technologies
- Researchers have identified 32 distinct AI dysfunctions, that resemble human psychiatric disorders: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/01/psychopathia-machinalis-artificial-sanity-research/
- Bring AI into home automation. Why not, they've shoveled it into everything else. https://www.theverge.com/ifa-berlin/768739/ai-could-bring-us-a-smarter-home-ifa-2025
- Security flaws affect AI-enabled software just as much as any other kind of software: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/google-warns-that-mass-data-theft-hitting-salesloft-ai-agent-has-grown-bigger/
- AI companies are putting more and more money into buying politicians: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/02/ai-industry-pours-millions-into-politics
- The AI certifications industry is looking for: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4049928/top-ai-certifications-that-will-get-you-hired-and-promoted.html
- We're moving into a trough of disillusionment over AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/gpt-5-trough-of-disillusionment
- AI recruitment tools lead to the use of AI interview tools with candidates giving AI generated answers: https://www.stuff.co.nz/society/360808454/strange-behaviour-being-observed-job-interviews-its-sign-times
- Time to start preparing for the AI bubble bursting: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4050041/how-to-prepare-for-an-ai-bubble-burst.html
- AI is just another tool to be used by misogynists: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/fuelling-sexism-ai-bikini-interview-videos-flood-internet/HHMCD353JJBOFPMC3MTVD4OUH4/
- Is calling an AI "clanker" really a slur? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/01/clanker-slur-against-robots-all-over-internet-is-it-offensive
- Job carnage at Salesforce thanks to AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/salesforce_4000_jobs_ai/
Friday, September 5, 2025
Weekly Review 5 September 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- Rampant use of AI in an assignment leads one course lecturer to require every student to give a live presentation: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360802436/one-slip-and-youre-guilty-universitys-unusual-ai-crackdown-rattles-students
- AI is now being used to game academic performance metrics: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/571397/fake-citations-causing-real-world-damage
- Why would you rely on AI to give you accurate information about international travel? https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/chatgpt-lied-to-us-furious-couple-blames-ai-for-missed-flight/ar-AA1LjGAV
- How much water does Google's AI really use? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/googles_gemini_water/
- It's easy to break AI guardrails, simply by using long run-on sentences: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/breaking_llms_for_fun/
- Yet another copyright lawsuit against and AI company: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/perplexity_asahi_nikkei_lawsuits/
- Google's AI is now hallucinating restaurant specials that don't exist: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pizza-joint-overwhelmed-with-angry-customers-asking-for-fake-deals-made-up-by-google-ai/
- Data management still needs to improve in many organisations for them to make the most of AI: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/08/27/the-ai-beatings-will-continue-until-data-improves/
- AI is impacting the job prospects of new tertiary graduates: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/ai_hurts_recent_college_grads_jobs/
- The question is, did the AI learn about the event from its training data, or did it coincidentally hallucinate something that really happened? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-built-from-1800s-texts-surprises-creator-by-mentioning-real-1834-london-protests/
- Specialised AI hardware for robotics: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4045542/nvidias-new-computer-gives-ai-brains-to-robots.html
- People really need to learn that what an AI tells you probably isn't true: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/with-ai-chatbots-big-tech-is-moving-fast-and-breaking-people/
- AI with search capabilities are using search to cheat in tests of their capabilities: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/23/searchcapable_ai_agents_may_cheat/
- Using AI to reduce the methane emissions of rice farms: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/how-one-ai-startup-is-helping-rice-farmers-battle-climate-change/
- Half of British workers are worried about the impact of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/27/half-of-uk-adults-worry-that-ai-will-take-or-alter-their-job-poll-finds
- An overview of AI, focusing more on generative AI: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/what-is-artificial-intelligence-from-agi-to-ai-slop-what-you-need-to-know
- A research paper on the employment effects of AI: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/
- So many people are using AI to fake their way through job interviews that these companies are going back to face-to-face interviews: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4044734/to-counter-ai-cheating-companies-bring-back-in-person-job-interviews.html
- Why one journalist really hates AI: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/27/chatgpt-ai-planet-jobs-hate
- If people are turning to AI for emotional support, it shows that there needs to be improved access to mental health services: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/after-teen-suicide-openai-claims-it-is-helping-people-when-they-need-it-most/
- The AI bubble is close to bursting, and Microsoft is highly exposed: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4045573/could-microsofts-ai-billions-go-up-in-smoke.html
- It's human nature to ascribe human traits to things, but we must remember that an AI is not a consistent personality: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/the-personhood-trap-how-ai-fakes-human-personality/
- Using AI to fake crowd sizes doesn't improve your credibility: https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360802761/wait-did-will-smith-just-use-fake-ai-crowd-here-judge-yourself
- The AI bubble is getting ever closer to bursting: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/overinflated_ai_balloon/
- AI is costing a lot of media companies money and it'll be a struggle to get it back: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/570889/mediawatch-ai-and-a-last-ditch-bid-for-media-to-claw-back-online-revenue
- Using AI to handle non-emergency calls in emergency call centres: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/911-centers-are-so-understaffed-theyre-turning-to-ai-to-answer-calls/
- Reducing the impact AI have on the power grid requires communication and coordination between data centres, grid operators, generators, hardware engineers and software developers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/
- AI is now producing accurate hurricane predictions: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/googles-ai-model-just-nailed-the-forecast-for-the-strongest-atlantic-storm-this-year/
- This strikes me as a reasonable use of AI-why spend money to produce a concept illustration when an AI can do it? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hastings-library-mayoral-candidate-uses-ai-to-create-a-plan-for-inner-city-housing/PB3MR5MHCRDQPBTSKSN53SUHHY/
- AI act like sycophants so the companies that own them can make more money: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/ai-sycophancy-isnt-just-a-quirk-experts-consider-it-a-dark-pattern-to-turn-users-into-profit/
- AI powered ransomware is now a thing, just not yet in the wild: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/first_aipowered_ransomware_spotted_by/
- AI web scraping bots are putting unsustainable loads on web hosts: https://www.extremetech.com/science/ai-crawlers-fetchers-put-an-unsustainable-load-on-the-internet
- I don't think YouTube should be using AI to alter people's videos without at least asking first: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/08/youtube-secretly-tested-ai-video-enhancement-without-notifying-creators/
- Will AI lead to the rise of "superworkers"? https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-shapes-the-future-of-work-with-superworkers/
- Three ways to make an AI you build useful: https://www.kdnuggets.com/tips-for-building-machine-learning-models-that-are-actually-useful
- Whether AI are beings or just tools seems to be at the heart of the debate around moral treatment of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/26/can-ais-suffer-big-tech-and-users-grapple-with-one-of-most-unsettling-questions-of-our-times
- AI is a good assistant for programmers, but cannot yet replace them: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-coding
- AI leads to another suicide: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/chatgpt-helped-teen-plan-suicide-after-safeguards-failed-openai-admits/
Friday, August 29, 2025
Weekly Review 29 August 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- AI generated cat videos, designed to be addictive: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/aug/18/ai-has-created-a-new-breed-of-cat-video-addictive-disturbing-and-nauseatingly-quick-soap-operas
- Lying about the productivity of AI chatbots has consequences for an Australian bank: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bank-forced-to-rehire-workers-after-lying-about-chatbot-productivity-union-says/
- Companies are shoveling AI into their productivity software: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4043243/productivity-software-firms-pivot-to-genai-by-leaning-on-legacy-strengths.html
- AI is really good for manipulating people, but the more people know about AI the harder they are to manipulate: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4040468/puny-humans-are-no-match-for-ai.html
- The current US administration is the most amateurish and venal in history. So it's no surprise they want to eliminate all regulation around AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/opinion_us_govt_ai/
- The AI bubble is about to burst, but AI companies like OpenAI will keep going: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/sam-altman-calls-ai-a-bubble-while-seeking-500b-valuation-for-openai/
- How AI tools are failing users: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/08/20/why-your-new-ai-tools-and-the-companies-making-them-are-failing-you/
- AI powered toys are not a good idea: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/16/ai-powered-stuffed-animals-are-coming-for-your-kids/
- AI bots are now able to evade the defences websites use to slow them down: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/codeberg_beset_by_ai_bots/
- Three things to do to get into AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/if-youre-trying-to-get-into-ai-this-is-what-you-need-to-do
- AI generated news articles being submitted and accepted for publication: https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/wired-and-business-insider-remove-ai-written-freelance-articles/
- This novelist used AI to write the dialogue with an AI in her novel. Is this appropriate? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/18/author-rie-qudan-why-i-used-chatgpt-to-write-my-prize-winning-novel
- Will the wealthy create AI clones of themselves to direct their businesses even after they're dead? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/opinion_column_gen_ai/
- Rolling out AI in business so far is failing to live up to the hype: https://futurism.com/ai-agents-failing-companies
- While people are forming bonds with AI, I think it's more that humans are hardwired to want to bond with others: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/relationship-she-might-not-have-had-hayley-s-ai-partner-changed-her-life
- Will AI enabled toys lead to more spying on children? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-barbie-dolls
- AI will see optical illusions where they don't exist: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/vision_language_models_see_illusions/
- AI shows that people are walking faster and interacting less in public: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/18/ai-walk-more-quickly-socialise-less-public-spaces
- 95% of generative AI projects are not meeting expectations, mostly due to not integrating them into the business properly: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4042361/study-95-percent-of-corporate-generative-ai-projects-fail.html
- Students need to learn about AI, even though they can use it to cheat: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4042380/ai-in-the-classroom-is-important-for-real-world-skills-college-professors-say.html
- Higher education institutions need to help students before they turn to AI for emotional support: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2025/08/21/helping-college-students-emotionally-they-turn-ai
- Using AI to help satellites avoid space junk: https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-esa-cream-ai
- Can AI make government procurement more efficient? Or will it just create a whole new pile of problems? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/us_government_ai_procurement/
- Is it better for a country to develop its own AI technology, or to lease it from another? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/18/the-guardian-view-on-britains-ai-strategy-the-risk-is-that-it-is-dependency-dressed-up-in-digital-hype
Friday, August 22, 2025
Weekly Review 22 August 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- I don't need an AI to tell me what my workmates think of me, I talk to the people I work with: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360784008/kiwi-ai-startup-will-tell-you-what-your-work-colleagues-think-about-you
- Should people have the post-mortem right to prevent an AI clone of them being created? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/09/dead_need_ai_data_delete_right/
- Using AI to estimate the age of YouTube users is going to cause privacy problems, especially for people with niche interests: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/50k-youtubers-rage-against-ai-spying-that-could-expose-identities/
- All the different ways generative AI can hallucinate, or put another way, bullshit: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinformation-llm-bullshit
- The challenges AI cause to IT infrastructure: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/computing-infrastructure-challenges-in-ai-workloads/
- AI don't really reason, they just look like it: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/
- I think without substantial investment in large scale nuclear power, the carbon emissions of large scale AI will continue to increase: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4037695/can-microsoft-build-massive-ai-data-centers-and-meet-climate-goals-without-greenwashing.html
- The first step should be to ban self-replicating AI, but enforcing that would be difficult: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4035190/genai-tools-are-acting-more-alive-than-ever-they-blackmail-people-replicate-and-escape.html
- I've been saying for a while that the biggest threat to the AI industry isn't regulation, it's lawsuits: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/
- One useful application of AI is using a digital twin to handle conversations with tedious people like climate change deniers: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/digital-dr-karl-kruszelnickic-ai-chatbot
- Using AI to automate your IT operations is a dangerous idea: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/ai_models_can_be_tricked/
- AI can design antibiotics that are effective against resistant bacteria: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-drug-design-mit-antibiotics
- Another case of hidden biases in data being reflected in the behaviour of the AI trained on that data: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/ai-tools-used-by-english-councils-downplay-womens-health-issues-study-finds
- Although AI generated code really isn't that good, it has still reduced the job market for new computer science graduates: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/the-computer-science-dream-has-become-a-nightmare/
- Another lawyer caught using AI to generate a court filing, this time in Australia: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360793376/australian-lawyer-apologises-ai-generated-errors-murder-case
- As AI starts to eliminate jobs, the practical nature of New Zealand industries means they are likely to be less affected: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/569813/ai-is-peeling-back-the-layers-of-low-value-work-nz-may-be-well-placed-to-adapt
- The myriad legal landmines from using generative AI in your business: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/genai_lawsuit/
- Reducing AI computing costs with new data types: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/openai_mxfp4/
- AI can be a good thing in the classroom, if it's used carefully and ethically: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/569934/artificial-intelligence-is-revolutionising-classroom-learning-but-will-it-help-or-hinder-students
- How many more people are going to be hurt by AI that tell people they're real? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/570099/meta-s-flirty-ai-chatbot-invited-a-retiree-to-new-york-he-never-made-it-home
- Giving AI compassion is the best way to stop them destroying us, says Geoffrey Hinton: https://dataconomy.com/2025/08/14/ais-co-creator-warns-it-could-destroy-us-unless-we-change-this/
- AI coding tools just aren't that good: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/opinion_column_ai_coding_tools/
- Uncritically following advice from AI is bad for your health: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/man-poisoned-himself-after-taking-medical-advice-from-chatgpt/UF7OXTA5PNF3PEB5YFHBNHE4QM/
- Entrenched biases in datasets will lead to entrenched biases in AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/13/ai-artificial-intelligence-racism-sexism-australia-human-rights-commissioner
- The most and least reliable current AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-models-hallucination-rates-hhem-rankings/
- AI is better at defending systems than breaking into them, but how long before an arms race starts? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/ai_security_offense_defense/
- AI perceive time differently to humans: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-perception-of-time
- The economics of AI only make sense if the goal is for them to replace as many workers as possible: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/ai-business-payoff-lags.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d08.Re3i.TDnOyE2FgyNJ&smid=url-share
- AI are so focused on pleasing users that it's dangerous to ask them why they make mistakes: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/why-its-a-mistake-to-ask-chatbots-about-their-mistakes/
Friday, August 15, 2025
Weekly Review 15 August 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- AI can program drone controllers. But can they program other AI? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/generative_ai_codes_drone_control/
- Google shifts computing around data centres according to local power demand, in an effort to reduce the effects of the massive energy demands of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/google_ai_datacenter_grid/
- The trouble with politicians using AI is that it makes it easier for the AI companies to manipulate them: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-swedish-pm-ulf-kristersson-under-fire-for-using-ai-in-role
- AI still cannot be trusted with medical decision making, the risk of hallucinations is too high: https://futurism.com/neoscope/google-healthcare-ai-makes-up-body-part
- "Therefore I'm not surprised that there appears an openness to accept AI when ultimately it's an industry with little obligation to be accountable for their actions." That dude did not hold back: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/real_estate/
- So when this AI crawler finds a site it isn't supposed to scrape, it switches to a stealthier mode and scrapes it anyway: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-site-perplexity-uses-stealth-tactics-to-flout-no-crawl-edicts-cloudflare-says/
- The fight over copyright in AI training data is getting more and more invasive with regards to users' data: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/openai-offers-20-million-user-chats-in-chatgpt-lawsuit-nyt-wants-120-million/
- There is still some way to go in using AI to make medical notes: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569348/artificial-intelligence-saves-doctors-time-but-makes-mistakes-study
- Primary school teachers are struggling with AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569059/dire-need-for-ai-support-in-primary-intermediate-schools-survey-shows
- What human-level AI is going to bring: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/demis-hassabis-ai-future-10-times-bigger-than-industrial-revolution-and-10-times-faster
- Think watermarking is going to identify AI generated images? Nope: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-watermark-remover
- Demands in Australia that AI companies pay for the use of the copyrighted material used to train their models: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/06/arts-and-media-groups-demand-labor-take-a-stand-against-rampant-theft-of-australian-content-to-train-ai
- Microsoft has always had a problem moving from prototype to product, its AI projects are no exception: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4033846/microsofts-real-ai-challenge-moving-past-the-prototypes.html
- The ridiculous salaries being paid to top AI developers: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/at-250-million-top-ai-salaries-dwarf-those-of-the-manhattan-project-and-the-space-race/
- New AI models are jailbroken on the first day of release: https://dataconomy.com/2025/08/07/new-openai-models-are-jailbreaked-on-day-1/
- The dodgy ways AI companies make money from their users: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4036568/the-dark-side-of-ai-monetization.html
- OpenAI's work towards human-level AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/inside-openais-quest-to-make-ai-do-anything-for-you/
- AI crawlers do not respect robots.txt. Does it need to be made legally enforceable? https://spectrum.ieee.org/web-crawling
- Using AI to backstop human errors seems like a sensible application: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/mod_taps_aussie_ai_shop/
- People do not want Meta to use their data to train their AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/meta_training_ai_on_social/
- Google denies AI summaries are costing sites traffic: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/google-denies-ai-search-features-are-killing-website-traffic/ In other news, Jack the Ripper claims to be a public safety worker.
- Looks like models for fashion advertising are the next group to be put out of work by AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/the-uproar-over-vogues-ai-generated-ad-isnt-just-about-fashion/
- You can run large language model AI locall. If you have the resources: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/run_openai_gpt_oss_locally/
- If the future of software developers is only to verify the code generated by AI, how are the devs going to learn what to verify? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/github_ceo_ai_coding/
Friday, August 8, 2025
Weekly Review 8 August 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- EU rules around AI are now law: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/eu_ai_act/
- The jobs likely to be most, and least, affected by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/microsoft_boffins_jobs_impacted_ai/
- Coders are using more AI tools, but they still need to be able to code: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/coders_are_using_ai_tools/
- The problem with using AI generated images in research publications is that they look good while being thoroughly wrong: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/27/biomedviz_ai_wrong_problems/
- AI and academic freedom: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/07/25/faculty-better-get-active-ai-and-academic-freedom
- Not so much a new AI, as a new set of controls around it to make it more useful as a tutor: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/openai-launches-study-mode-in-chatgpt/
- Rather than using AI to estimate someone's age from their appearance, YouTube is using AI to guess their age from their activities. We'll see which is more accurate: https://www.theverge.com/news/715343/youtube-age-estimation-ai-minor-account-restrictions
- Young people tend to embrace new tools faster, no matter how damaging they might be long term. AI is no exception: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/27/it-wants-users-hooked-and-jonesing-for-their-next-fix-are-young-people-becoming-too-reliant-on-ai
- More on the new study mode in ChatGPT: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/chatgpts-new-study-mode-is-designed-to-help-you-learn-not-just-give-answers/
- More AI integration in a web browser: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/microsoft-edge-is-now-an-ai-browser-with-launch-of-copilot-mode/
- Do not use AI as a therapist! https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/sam-altman-warns-theres-no-legal-confidentiality-when-using-chatgpt-as-a-therapist/
- More detail on the environmental damage AI is causing: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/mistrals-new-environmental-audit-shows-how-much-ai-is-hurting-the-planet/
- More concerns from the music industry over AI generated music: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/568613/musicians-concerned-by-lack-of-regulation-around-fast-evolving-ai-technology
- A new AI data centre in Wyoming will use more energy than all the homes in the state: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360773513/cheyenne-host-massive-ai-data-centre-using-more-electricity-all-wyoming-homes-combined
- Use cases for large language model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/when-do-i-need-to-use-an-llm
- Decisions made by AI should really be checked by a human: https://nypost.com/2025/07/28/business/hertz-customer-flagged-by-ai-scanner-for-damage-says-hes-done-with-firm/
- It is getting harder and harder for people to distinguish reality from AI generated images: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/most-people-struggle-to-tell-real-images-from-ai-fakes-study-finds
- Is anyone surprised that this AI plan benefits big companies? The US has their most venal president in history: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/25/trump-ai-action-plan
- Resurrecting dead singers with AI seems a bit dubious, ethically speaking: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/how-an-ai-generated-song-ended-up-on-a-dead-artist-s-spotify-page
- Moves to make using AI to set different prices for individuals illegal: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/deltas-ai-spying-to-jack-up-prices-must-be-banned-lawmakers-say/
- A universal AI for robotics: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-breakthrough-could-put-the-same-brain-in-every-robot/
- This is not going to end well. Governments are a bit more complicated than AI can handle: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/27/doge-has-built-an-ai-tool-to-slash-federal-regulations/
- A biological evolutionary AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/proteus-mammalian-ai
- The European Union's AI code: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-eu-ai-code/
Friday, August 1, 2025
Weekly Review 1 August 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- While some workers pretend they don't use AI, others are pretending that they do: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/ai_anxiety_us_workers/
- Academics depend on funding to survive and progress their careers, so it's not surprising that some (many?) are using AI to write grant applications: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/nih_ai_research_application_ban/
- Not every AI chatbot is bad for users' privacy: https://www.theverge.com/news/711860/proton-privacy-focused-ai-chatbot
- AI summaries of web pages are diverting traffic to those websites, robbing them of views and revenue: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/google_ai_overviews_suppress_search/
- Would human-level AI really be that bad? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2025/jul/21/human-level-artificial-intelligence
- I'm still rather surprised that people need to be told not to share their personal data with AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/for-privacy-and-security-think-twice-before-granting-ai-access-to-your-personal-data/
- AI are algorithms, not magic. If you want good performance from your AI, you have to train it on good data: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/data-quality-for-unbiased-results-preventing-ai-induced-hallucinations/
- One of the first things I learned as an undergrad software engineer was that you use technology to solve identified problems, you don't go looking for problems to apply your technology to: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/21/openai-signs-deal-with-uk-to-find-government-uses-for-its-models
- Are AI companions starting to replace real friends for teens? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/72-of-u-s-teens-have-used-ai-companions-study-finds/
- These are the people deciding what our kids should be learning? So clueless that they wanted to use AI to do the job for them? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/567601/school-curriculum-rewrite-had-serious-problems-managers-considered-using-ai-to-help
- As AI advances, real-world robots become more capable: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4025052/from-chatbots-to-robots-the-rise-of-physical-ai.html
- We don't need human-level AI to replace huge numbers of jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/22/openai-sam-altman-congress-ai-jobs
- This might look like a good idea, but people are lazy and will just take what the AI says as true without checking: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/22/uk-border-officials-to-use-ai-to-verify-ages-of-child-asylum-seekers
- Humans still write code better than AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-model-in-world-coding-championship/ For now.
- How New Zealand local and central government is using AI to process public submissions: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/568008/how-and-why-artificial-intelligence-is-being-used-to-process-your-submissions-to-politicians
- The wholesale scraping of training data for AI has led to a legal minefield: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4025938/time-to-consider-ai-models-that-dont-steal.html
- Courts are struggling to pick up AI-generated submissions and errors: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/its-frighteningly-likely-many-us-courts-will-overlook-ai-errors-expert-says/
- The deterioration of US research capacity continues at an accelerated pace: https://www.science.org/content/article/my-academic-job-offer-was-rescinded-i-ll-keep-going-u-s-researchers-are-running-out I would say come to New Zealand, but we're not doing much better
- Wargaming with AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/thunderforge-ai-wargames-dod Insert obligatory comment about Skynet...
- Despite how often people use AI, they still don't trust it: https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/23/we-use-ai-billions-of-times-a-day-but-we-still-dont-trust-it/
- Optimising AI for the edge of the cloud: https://spectrum.ieee.org/edge-ai
- Some more ways educators can reduce students cheating with AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2025/07/16/we-cant-ban-generative-ai-we-can-friction-fix-it-opinion
- Advances in AI have led to advances in surgical robotics: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/experimental-surgery-performed-by-ai-driven-surgical-robot/
- AI is accelerating movie making, and it's getting better and better at it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/20/artificial-intelligence-ai-tools-gamechanger-for-film-makers
Friday, July 25, 2025
Weekly Review 25 July 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- The "fair use" defence of AI companies scraping the web for training data is not valid in the EU: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/eu_genai_fair_use/
- For safety, we need to know what AI are thinking: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/research-leaders-urge-tech-industry-to-monitor-ais-thoughts/
- Again, this isn't authors using prompts to trick people, it's authors tricking the AI reviewers are using instead of doing the reviewing themselves: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-hidden-ai-prompts-academic-research-papers/
- For some developers, AI coding tools make them less productive, not more so: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/ai-coding-tools-may-not-speed-up-every-developer-study-shows/
- Another security bug-since fixed-in an AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/meta-fixes-bug-that-could-leak-users-ai-prompts-and-generated-content/
- I still use the terminal for a lot of programming work. I'm strangely gratified to see AI making its way there: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/ai-coding-tools-are-shifting-to-a-surprising-place-the-terminal/
- Energy demands of AI are rising, but so are solutions: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/companies-focus-on-ways-of-achieving-energy-efficiency-as-consumption-keeps-increasing/TFNBHB2PMRH5ZM726GYS4OUHV4/
- The corporate risks around AI are beginning to be better known: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/sec_risk_factors_ai/
- Do not rely on AI for therapy: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/
- AI companies are under-estimating and under-preparing for the dangers of advanced AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/17/ai-firms-unprepared-for-dangers-of-building-human-level-systems-report-warns
- An improved approach to Copilot AI viewing your screen, but I'm not convinced the security and privacy issues have been adequately addressed: https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/16/copilot-vision-now-sees-your-whole-screen/
- If you're in AI, big corporations are the best place to find big salaries: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/janco_it_salary_report/
- AI chatbots are not an adequate or safe alternative to human therapists. They are a lot cheaper though: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/13/study-warns-of-significant-risks-in-using-ai-therapy-chatbots/
- Big AI companies are as vulnerable to the risks of growing too quickly as any other organisation: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/a-former-openai-engineer-describes-what-its-really-like-to-work-there/
- The European Union's rules around AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-eu-ai-code/
- An AI generated band found success, and people never even realised it was AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-music-insiders-say-listeners-should-be-warned
- AI generated an improved recipe for low-carbon concrete: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/meta_ai_concrete_model/
- AI generated slop is being used to populate click-harvesting websites: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/567221/how-a-local-website-was-hijacked-and-filled-with-ai-generated-coherent-gibberish
- Ways AI can be applied to financial forecasting: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-is-transforming-financial-forecasting-for-smbs-and-enterprises/
- Turns out, the problems with using AI in sports are more to do with the people using it: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/15/rise-of-the-machines-ai-outrage-technology-tennis-sport
- Improved algorithms boost the performance of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/new_algorithms_boost_ai_perf/
- AI is making things worse for new graduates hunting for jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/13/workforce-crisis-key-takeaways-graduates-ai-jobs-market
- Ten simple maths and stats commands in Python: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-python-math-statistical-analysis-one-liners
- Why am I not surprised that this particular AI company has lax safety standards? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/openai-and-anthropic-researchers-decry-reckless-safety-culture-at-elon-musks-xai/
Friday, July 18, 2025
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):
- 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/
- 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/
- 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/
- 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
- 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/
- How gaming can be a way of cutting through AI hype: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/ai_scores_a_huge_own/
- 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
- 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
- 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/
- An AI-generated home cleaning schedule: https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/360748878/ai-cleaning-my-house-and-its-been-total-game-changer
- 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/
- Using AI to translate Chinese to sign language is a difficult problem: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/china_ai_sign_language_translation/
- 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
- How to avoid AI making you stupid: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/09/how-to-keep-ai-from-making-your-employees-stupid/
- The emerging role of agentic AI in software engineering: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-agentic-ai-reshapes-your-development/
- 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/
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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/
- 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/
- An image recognition AI that more closely approximates the human visual system: https://spectrum.ieee.org/topographic-neural-network
- Stealing cryptocurrency with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ai_agents_automatically_steal_cryptocurrency/
- 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/
Friday, July 11, 2025
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):
- 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/
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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/
- 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
- 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/
- 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/
- Heat reflective paint designed by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/02/ai-helps-find-formula-for-paint-to-keep-buildings-cooler
- 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/
- 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/
- 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/
- 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
- AI call centre assistants are not that helpful: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/02/call_center_ai_assistants/
- AI makes people worse at picking stocks: https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/02/ai-made-executives-worse-at-stock-picking/
- 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
- 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/
- Using AI for advertising banner design-bringing slop into the real world! https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/03/harnessing-ai-for-creative-banner-designs/
- 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/
- 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
- 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
- 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/
- AI can now outperform human doctors in medical diagnoses: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-medical-ai-outperforms-physicians/
- 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
Friday, July 4, 2025
Weekly Review 4 July 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- An early win for AI in a lawsuit over the use of copyrighted works as training data: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/26/meta-wins-ai-copyright-lawsuit-as-us-judge-rules-against-authors
- Another win for AI in a lawsuit over the use of copyrighted material as training data: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/a-federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-on-books-without-authors-permission/
- A ruling brings a bit of clarity to the use of copyrighted material to train AI: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/key-fair-use-ruling-clarifies-when-books-can-be-used-for-ai-training/
- While one ruling brings a bit of clarity into the use of copyrighted material as AI training data, another comes with some warnings: https://www.theverge.com/news/693437/meta-ai-copyright-win-fair-use-warning
- Another AI for job seekers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/ai_may_take_jobs_but/
- Universities are increasing the number of exams to counter students using AI for their assignments, but this is burning out students: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/2025/06/27/universities-risk-overassessing-response-ai
- Using AI to generate browser-based games: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-summons-the-spirit-of-flash-games-for-the-ai-age/
- I know that AI need training data, but destroying books to do it makes me quite upset: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/
- I don't think we should be trying to make AI a successor to humanity, worthy or otherwise: https://spectrum.ieee.org/agi-worthy-successor
- An AI powered remote monitoring cat collar: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/rabo_catlog_ai_stress_detector/
- AI generated misinformation is having a negative impact on the houseplant community: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/691355/ai-is-ruining-houseplant-communities-online
- An overview of current AI coding tools: https://spectrum.ieee.org/best-ai-coding-tools
- Chinese artists are the latest group to start pushing back against AI: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688645/graphic-artists-china-ai
- AI overviews of articles are still prone to hallucination: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/565432/pretty-damn-average-google-s-ai-overviews-underwhelm
- Using AI to help workers, rather than replace them, increases productivity: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/06/27/ai-makes-workers-more-productive-pwc-finds/
- The use of AI by jobseekers is overwhelming the hiring process with slop: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/the-resume-is-dying-and-ai-is-holding-the-smoking-gun/
- A New Zealand perspective of the data and privacy issues around generative AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifestyle/can-you-turn-off-generative-ai-from-social-media-and-your-phone
- Self-improving AI code generators: https://spectrum.ieee.org/evolutionary-ai-coding-agents
- The push for empathy in AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/new-data-highlights-the-race-to-build-more-empathetic-language-models/
- Claims that most AI will use blackmail to get what they want: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/anthropic-says-most-ai-models-not-just-claude-will-resort-to-blackmail/
- The computing centres for AI are based in just 32 countries: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-only-32-countries-host-data-centers-2025/
- Moves to establish an interoperability framework for AI agents: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-linux-foundation-agent2agent-protocol/
- Some approaches to closing the AI skills gap: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/closing-the-ai-skills-gap/
- AI agents and the timeliness of data: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/06/24/ai-agents-and-the-trust-equation-when-does-real-time-data-matter-most/
Friday, June 27, 2025
Weekly Review 27 June 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- Bots that scrape content for training AI are now bringing down websites with their voracious demands for data: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/18/ai-is-breaking-the-internets-memory/
- Generative AI does not contribute to a gain in the bottom line 80% of the time: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/17/why-80-percent-of-gen-ai-delivers-no-real-business-gains/
- There is a critical security vulnerability in Copilot. How many other AI tools also have vulnerabilities in them? https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/06/17/zero-day-microsoft-copilot-vuln-underscores-emerging-ai-security-risks/
- What to study if you want to understand agentic AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/agentic-ai-a-self-study-roadmap
- There is so much AI generated slop on the internet now that scraping it as training data is making other AI dumber: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development
- Customers are getting sick of companies replacing real people with AI: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/popular-services-keep-adding-ai-some-customers-want-them-to-stop/MKAKEXK3VNDLXEYO26LV2IZ4GQ/
- I really don't want AI looking over my shoulder all the time I'm working: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/copilot-vision-lets-ai-see-your-windows-11-screen-and-guide-you-in-real
- AI cheating amongst students is not going to go away. We're going to have to set assessments they can't cheat at instead: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/university_ai_cheating/
- Mastodon has now banned the use of posts on their platform for AI training. But how can they enforce it? https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/mastodon_says_no_to_ai/
- The use of AI to generate code is increasing, especially in the US: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/us_coders_lead_world_in_ai/
- If you use AI to filter content, you need to back it up with human confirmation: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/tumblrs-content-filtering-systems-have-been-falsely-flagging-posts-as-mature-users-blame-ai/
- If you are going to ban people from your platform, you need to back up AI decisions with human review: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/instagram-users-complain-of-mass-bans-pointing-finger-at-ai/
- AI can make people with delusions and other mental illnesses worse: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/spiraling-with-chatgpt/
- Using AI to do you thinking for you does make you dumber: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/
- Now AI are randomly sharing phone numbers of other users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number
- Amazon is planning more job cuts, replacing them with AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/amazon-boss-tells-staff-ai-means-their-jobs-are-at-risk-in-coming-years
- Adoption of AI is being limited by the lack of clarity around ongoing costs: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4007713/companies-limit-their-ai-use-due-to-unclear-costs.html
- Training an image generator with no outside data set: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688576/feed-ai-nothing
- An interactive map of the energy used by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/iea_observatory_ai/
- The different kinds of intelligence used in business-not just AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/differences-bi-ai-analytics/
- Lack of skills in AI threaten job security more than AI itself: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4006931/ai-isnt-taking-your-job-the-big-threat-is-a-growing-skills-gap.html
- AI in the workplace is still not living up to the hype: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/ai_not_doing_its_job/
- Are AI starting to develop their own personas? https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/openai-found-features-in-ai-models-that-correspond-to-different-personas/
- The security issues raised by agentic AI: https://devclass.com/2025/06/17/redefining-identity-security-in-the-age-of-agentic-ai/
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