Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- People who use AI more have less confidence in their own intellectual abilities: https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-cognition-study
- The pain AI is causing educators-mostly caused by students using it to cheat: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain/
- AI on the edge of the cloud continues to be a growth area: https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366641741/Edge-and-physical-AI-poised-to-upend-enterprise-networks
- AI can lead to an increase in productivity, if employees are allowed to choose how they use it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4159817/ai-is-finally-delivering-productivity-for-remote-employees.html
- Using AI to migrate away from mainframes is causing a lot of disappointment: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/gartner_mainframe_exit_analysis/
- People are so fed-up with AI data centres that they are voting-out councils that approve them: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ctiy-council-data-center
- AI funding seems to be a great big circle that is going to fall apart when the flow of money stops: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/will-the-music-stop-for-ai-s-funding-dance-
- Companies have spent so much on AI that employees are being forced to use them, even though it makes them less productive: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors
- AI is getting better at science, for some fields: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/04/17/what-stanfords-hai-report-says-about-ai-in-science/
- US hospitals are rolling out more AI chatbots, but many concerns remain: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/americans-ask-ai-for-health-care-hospitals-think-the-answer-is-more-chatbots/
- An enormous backlash against AI is brewing: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/signs-massive-ai-backlash
- Teens are deeply skeptical of AI chatbots but can't stop using them: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teens-ai-chatbot-characterai
- The state of AI in twelve plots: https://spectrum.ieee.org/state-of-ai-index-2026
- VR has failed over and over again. Will AI go the same way? https: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/hardware_metaverse_will_happen/
- Using an AI to train another AI can cause hidden biases to be propagated between models: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/llms_inherit_bad_traits/
- How useful is AI journalling? https: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/12/experiment-with-ai-journalling
- Seriously, do not use an AI to diagnose any medical issues you might have: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/ai_gets_early_medical_diagnosis/
- More tech layoffs justified by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/15/snap-inc-blames-ai-worker-layoffs
- AI agents are a significant security risk: https://www.kdnuggets.com/are-ai-agents-your-next-security-nightmare
- The economic turmoil caused by Trump's war with Iran could accelerate job displacements by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/16/ai-destroying-jobs-energy-crisis-worse-doomsday-scenario
- Seven things you need to do to successfully roll-out a large language model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-steps-to-mastering-language-model-deployment
- AI providers have been scaling up their computing capacity without increasing their network bandwidth: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/networks_not_ready_for_ai_challenges/
- AI are terrible at sports betting, which implies they struggle to build models of real-world activities over time: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/ai-models-are-terrible-at-betting-on-soccer-especially-xai-grok/
- Is it ethical to use AI to deceive people that a deceased loved-one is still alive? https: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mother-son-died-ai-clone