Weekly Review, 28 March 2025

 Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):IT infrastructure needs to be reworked to optimise AI performance: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/breaking-through-the-ai-bottlenecksAI chatbots continue to impersonate dead teenagers: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/mom-horrified-by-character-ai-chatbots-posing-as-son-who-died-by-suicide/Where AI really shines in software development: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/the-future-of-code-review-is-in-balance-human-and-ai/Submitting AI generated research papers, without informing the receivers that it's AI, is quite unethical: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/academics-accuse-ai-startups-of-co-opting-peer-review-for-publicity/This raises an interesting question, one that's sure to keep lawyers busy for the next few years-if an AI defames a person, who is liable for it? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/chatgpt-falsely-claimed-a-dad-murdered-his-own-kids-complaint-says/An AI based weather forecasting system that is much faster than traditional approaches: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/20/ai-aardvark-weather-prediction-forecasting-artificial-intelligenceScript writers keeping their creations offline to stop AI grabbing them: https://www.theverge.com/news/632613/andor-tony-gilroy-ai-star-wars-training-copyrightAI can now create funnier memes than humans: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-beats-humans-at-meme-humor-but-the-best-joke-is-still-human-made/Another method of scaling-up AI. But how useful is it really? https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/researchers-say-theyve-discovered-a-new-method-of-scaling-up-ai-but-theres-reason-to-be-skeptical/A method for extracting the hidden objectives of an AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/researchers-astonished-by-tools-apparent-success-at-revealing-ais-hidden-motives/Laws take a long time to write, so it makes sense that they should try to anticipate future threats from AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/group-co-led-by-fei-fei-li-suggests-that-ai-safety-laws-should-anticipate-future-risks/How to use AI in your job hunting: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/8-ways-generative-ai-can-help-you-land-a-new-job-after-a-layoffAI nurses are making their way into hospitals, but real nurses don't trust them: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360617352/ai-nurses-reshape-us-hospital-care-human-nurses-are-pushing-backI wouldn't trust Trump with a box of crayons, let alone a law to force removal of  content, AI generated or not: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/627868/take-it-down-act-weapon-trump-ncii-deepfakesBusiness efficiency boosts from using AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/how-real-companies-are-using-ai-to-boost-efficiencyAI need data for training, but their crawlers are hammering websites to get it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/ai_crawlers_sourcehut/AI cannot be copyright holders: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/judge-disses-star-trek-icon-datas-poetry-while-ruling-ai-cant-author-works/Experts disagree on when, if ever, AI will reach human-level intelligence: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/the-ai-leaders-bringing-the-agi-debate-down-to-earth/The impact of AI on the music industry: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-ai-is-transforming-the-music-industryThe advances in physical AI, that is, AI that interacts directly with the real world: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/20/the-rise-of-intelligent-machines-nvidia-accelerates-physical-ai-progress/An AI model of buildings, used to assist in evaluating renewable electricity installations: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/palmetto-wants-software-developers-to-electrify-america-using-its-ai-building-models/Imbalanced data sets can seriously bias the performance of AI. Oversampling and undersampling are two ways to deal with these datasets: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/exploring-oversampling-and-under-sampling-core-techniques-for-balancing-imbalanced-datasets-in-ml/AI reflect the data they are trained on. Since there is much more censorship of Chinese-language forums, we would expect less free responses from AI when questioned in Chinese: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/ais-answers-on-china-differ-depending-on-the-language-analysis-finds/AI are getting better at doing regular work tasks: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/19/ai-is-learning-to-work-like-you-and-its-getting-faster-every-day/

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 Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on MastodonThreadsNewsmast, and Bluesky):
  1. IT infrastructure needs to be reworked to optimise AI performance: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/breaking-through-the-ai-bottlenecks
  2. AI chatbots continue to impersonate dead teenagers: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/mom-horrified-by-character-ai-chatbots-posing-as-son-who-died-by-suicide/
  3. Where AI really shines in software development: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/the-future-of-code-review-is-in-balance-human-and-ai/
  4. Submitting AI generated research papers, without informing the receivers that it's AI, is quite unethical: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/academics-accuse-ai-startups-of-co-opting-peer-review-for-publicity/
  5. This raises an interesting question, one that's sure to keep lawyers busy for the next few years-if an AI defames a person, who is liable for it? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/chatgpt-falsely-claimed-a-dad-murdered-his-own-kids-complaint-says/
  6. An AI based weather forecasting system that is much faster than traditional approaches: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/20/ai-aardvark-weather-prediction-forecasting-artificial-intelligence
  7. Script writers keeping their creations offline to stop AI grabbing them: https://www.theverge.com/news/632613/andor-tony-gilroy-ai-star-wars-training-copyright
  8. AI can now create funnier memes than humans: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-beats-humans-at-meme-humor-but-the-best-joke-is-still-human-made/
  9. Another method of scaling-up AI. But how useful is it really? https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/researchers-say-theyve-discovered-a-new-method-of-scaling-up-ai-but-theres-reason-to-be-skeptical/
  10. A method for extracting the hidden objectives of an AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/researchers-astonished-by-tools-apparent-success-at-revealing-ais-hidden-motives/
  11. Laws take a long time to write, so it makes sense that they should try to anticipate future threats from AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/group-co-led-by-fei-fei-li-suggests-that-ai-safety-laws-should-anticipate-future-risks/
  12. How to use AI in your job hunting: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/8-ways-generative-ai-can-help-you-land-a-new-job-after-a-layoff
  13. AI nurses are making their way into hospitals, but real nurses don't trust them: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360617352/ai-nurses-reshape-us-hospital-care-human-nurses-are-pushing-back
  14. I wouldn't trust Trump with a box of crayons, let alone a law to force removal of  content, AI generated or not: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/627868/take-it-down-act-weapon-trump-ncii-deepfakes
  15. Business efficiency boosts from using AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/how-real-companies-are-using-ai-to-boost-efficiency
  16. AI need data for training, but their crawlers are hammering websites to get it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/ai_crawlers_sourcehut/
  17. AI cannot be copyright holders: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/judge-disses-star-trek-icon-datas-poetry-while-ruling-ai-cant-author-works/
  18. Experts disagree on when, if ever, AI will reach human-level intelligence: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/the-ai-leaders-bringing-the-agi-debate-down-to-earth/
  19. The impact of AI on the music industry: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-ai-is-transforming-the-music-industry
  20. The advances in physical AI, that is, AI that interacts directly with the real world: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/20/the-rise-of-intelligent-machines-nvidia-accelerates-physical-ai-progress/
  21. An AI model of buildings, used to assist in evaluating renewable electricity installations: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/palmetto-wants-software-developers-to-electrify-america-using-its-ai-building-models/
  22. Imbalanced data sets can seriously bias the performance of AI. Oversampling and undersampling are two ways to deal with these datasets: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/exploring-oversampling-and-under-sampling-core-techniques-for-balancing-imbalanced-datasets-in-ml/
  23. AI reflect the data they are trained on. Since there is much more censorship of Chinese-language forums, we would expect less free responses from AI when questioned in Chinese: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/ais-answers-on-china-differ-depending-on-the-language-analysis-finds/
  24. AI are getting better at doing regular work tasks: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/19/ai-is-learning-to-work-like-you-and-its-getting-faster-every-day/