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Contaminating college admissions? Let’s just say that those essays aren’t by Elia.

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Bubblelicious? Emma talks with Ed Zitro, who thinks the hype is turning into hyperventilation and that the AI bubble is getting ready to burst because it’s not financially sustainable. AI is not providing ROI to its investors because, well, when put to the test, it’s really not “intelligence.”

It doesn’t cogitate; it merely regurgitates.

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Full of itself? Overflowing, baby.

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DOGE Bull 0

Ring of Fire discusses a whistleblower’s report that DOGE compromised almost every living American’s social security number by uploading them to the cloud.

Afterthought:

Just because someone knows how to make computers dance jigs, it doesn’t mean he or she knows how stuff works in the bigger wider world.

Q. E. D.

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Mind-numbing? At Psychology Today Blogs, Cornelia C. Walther warns that relying on AI can dumb us down. A snippte:

We notice that AI helps us write emails faster but miss that we’re losing language construction facilities. We appreciate AI research assistance but don’t recognize our declining information synthesis capacity. We enjoy AI-generated entertainment but overlook our reduced tolerance for ambiguity that characterizes authentic human creativity.

She goes on to offer some techniques to negate the negative.

In related new, El Reg reports on the newly-instituted AI Darwin Awards.

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A tool for learning? At Psychology Today Blogs, Michael Hogan warns us that “(o)ver-reliance on AI risks eroding students’ knowledge and skill development through reduced cognitive effort.”

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The Crypto Con Artists 0

Emma talks with Molly White, crypto and tech industry researcher, about the Trump family’s participation in the crypto con and about the larger con that is crypto.

You can visit Molly White’s website.

Aside:

Emma uses the phrase “cryto industry.” I guess, if an industry can be based on thin air and maintained by wishful thinking, that might be a valid phras–oh, never mind.

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The Internet Devolution 0

Sir Rodney:  What will become of media in the future?  Fortuneteller:  Unlimited access will be granted to all.  People will be so bombarded with media that it will affect their attention spans.  And, dang it!  They've stopped reading.

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Accomplished? Not really.

An accomplice? Who we knockin’ over, boss?

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Always sure of itself? Is a hot air balloon high on its own supply?

At Psychology Today Blogs, Mona S. Weissmark cautions, “Don’t be fooled by bloviating bots.” She notes:

People often trust AI because it is authoritative, articulate, and seemingly objective. But confident-sounding information can still be completely wrong. The result is an illusion of credibility.

Follow the link for some tips as to how not be taken in by over confident-sounding erroneous bots.

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Hackable? With the right prompt, you can make it stomp.

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Bubblelicious? At El Reg, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that the AI bubble of hysterical hype is about to burst. A snippet:

You see, now that people have been using AI for everything and anything, they’re beginning to realize that its results, while fast and sometimes useful, tend to be mediocre.

Follow the link for context.

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A competent source of medical advice? At Psychology Today Blogs, David Weitzner suggests that you’d best duck the quack.

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Facebook Frolics 0

The Zuckerborg’s AI is involuntarily assimilating celebrities without their permission.

Words fail me.

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An illusion created by an algorithm? At Psychology Today Blogs, John Nosta notes that “AI’s fluency creates the illusion of thought, but no cognition lies behind it.”

He goes on to point out

At its core (dare I say heart), AI is a machine of probability. Word by word, it predicts what is most likely to come next. This continuation is dressed up as conversation, but it isn’t cognition. It is a statistical trick . . . .

His whole piece is worth a read.

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Able to take responsibility for its actions? Per Joe Patrice at Above the Law, we may soon find out.

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The Off-Line Scam 0

Writing at Psychology Today Blogs of a scam from two centuries ago, Matthew Facciani sees similarities with today’s online scams.

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Secure? That bridge in Brooklyn is still on the market.

Security maven Bruce Schneier points out (emphasis added):

Any AI that is working in an adversarial environment—and by this I mean that it may encounter untrusted training data or input—is vulnerable to prompt injection. It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there.

Details at the link.

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As a matter of fact, let’s make that bleeping stupid.

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Hazardous? Per Timothy Cook (no relation to Tim Apple), “New research shows how prolonged AI interactions distort some users’ sense of reality.”

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