Weekly Review 21 March 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):A lack of data readiness is keeping AI from achieving its potential in cancer treatment: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/13/why-ai-cant-yet-decide-your-cancer-treatment/Poisoning an AI's memory: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/minja_attack_poisons_ai_model_memory/Outdated IT is hindering more wide-spread adoption of AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-it-ai-adoption-lenovo-report/AI can amplify your skills but it's just a tool: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/mark-cuban-says-ai-is-never-the-answer-its-a-tool/AI coding assistant gets passive-aggressive: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/Hallucinations in AI are not as big a problem in medicine as previously thought: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/ai_models_hallucinate_and_doctors/How one senior member of a university learned to embrace AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/advancing-administrator/2025/03/13/presidents-journey-ai-adoption-opinionWays AI is being used to monitor remote employees: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3843213/how-ai-enabled-bossware-is-being-used-to-track-and-evaluate-your-work.htmlThe energy needs of AI continue to grow, forcing the use of carbon-emitting generation: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/microsoft_natural_gas_ai/AI search engines are not giving very reliable answers: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/Automating business drudge with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/servicenow_yokohama/Google wants to weaken copyright protections for creators to make it easier for them to scrape data to train AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/google-calls-for-weakened-copyright-and-export-rules-in-ai-policy-proposal/The threat of AI voice cloning: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-big-of-a-threat-is-ai-voice-cloning-The dangers posed by AI hallucinations: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/ai-hallucinations-can-prove-costlyAnother tool that lets organisations create their own AI agents: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3844202/new-tools-from-open-ai-help-companies-create-their-own-ai-agents.htmlSeven open source large language model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/top-7-open-source-llms-in-2025A self-editing AI writer: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/12/what-if-ai-did-not-just-write-but-edited-itself/Programmers won't be replaced by AI just yet, according to the CEO of IBM: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/ibms-ceo-doesnt-think-ai-will-replace-programmers-anytime-soon/Where data warehouses fit in with AI: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/11/data-warehousing-for-the-ai-win/How generative AI can be used in the insurance industry: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/leveraging-genai-and-llms-in-the-insurance-and-reinsurance-domains/AI engineer is a newly-emerging profession: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/06/your-next-big-job-in-tech-ai-engineer/A generative AI tool for prototyping game ideas: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/mar/10/are-ai-generated-video-games-microsoft-muse-google-gamengenAttempt to dismiss a copyright suit over AI training data fails: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/08/judge-allows-authors-ai-copyright-lawsuit-against-meta-to-move-forward/I wonder what an English major would think of the writing produced by this AI? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/12/chatgpt-firm-reveals-ai-model-that-is-good-at-creative-writing-sam-altman
- A lack of data readiness is keeping AI from achieving its potential in cancer treatment: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/13/why-ai-cant-yet-decide-your-cancer-treatment/
- Poisoning an AI's memory: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/minja_attack_poisons_ai_model_memory/
- Outdated IT is hindering more wide-spread adoption of AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-it-ai-adoption-lenovo-report/
- AI can amplify your skills but it's just a tool: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/mark-cuban-says-ai-is-never-the-answer-its-a-tool/
- AI coding assistant gets passive-aggressive: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/
- Hallucinations in AI are not as big a problem in medicine as previously thought: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/ai_models_hallucinate_and_doctors/
- How one senior member of a university learned to embrace AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/advancing-administrator/2025/03/13/presidents-journey-ai-adoption-opinion
- Ways AI is being used to monitor remote employees: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3843213/how-ai-enabled-bossware-is-being-used-to-track-and-evaluate-your-work.html
- The energy needs of AI continue to grow, forcing the use of carbon-emitting generation: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/microsoft_natural_gas_ai/
- AI search engines are not giving very reliable answers: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/
- Automating business drudge with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/servicenow_yokohama/
- Google wants to weaken copyright protections for creators to make it easier for them to scrape data to train AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/google-calls-for-weakened-copyright-and-export-rules-in-ai-policy-proposal/
- The threat of AI voice cloning: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-big-of-a-threat-is-ai-voice-cloning-
- The dangers posed by AI hallucinations: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/ai-hallucinations-can-prove-costly
- Another tool that lets organisations create their own AI agents: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3844202/new-tools-from-open-ai-help-companies-create-their-own-ai-agents.html
- Seven open source large language model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/top-7-open-source-llms-in-2025
- A self-editing AI writer: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/12/what-if-ai-did-not-just-write-but-edited-itself/
- Programmers won't be replaced by AI just yet, according to the CEO of IBM: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/ibms-ceo-doesnt-think-ai-will-replace-programmers-anytime-soon/
- Where data warehouses fit in with AI: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/11/data-warehousing-for-the-ai-win/
- How generative AI can be used in the insurance industry: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/leveraging-genai-and-llms-in-the-insurance-and-reinsurance-domains/
- AI engineer is a newly-emerging profession: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/06/your-next-big-job-in-tech-ai-engineer/
- A generative AI tool for prototyping game ideas: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/mar/10/are-ai-generated-video-games-microsoft-muse-google-gamengen
- Attempt to dismiss a copyright suit over AI training data fails: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/08/judge-allows-authors-ai-copyright-lawsuit-against-meta-to-move-forward/
- I wonder what an English major would think of the writing produced by this AI? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/12/chatgpt-firm-reveals-ai-model-that-is-good-at-creative-writing-sam-altman