Robin T.

When I was a teenager there was a lot of heroin going around. Not only the first hit was free, but the stuff was free or very cheap UNTIL ONE WAS ADDICTED.

I say "token", because AI usage is literally a slot machine. you pay a token per-slot-machine-lever-pull, and hope you like what you get or you roll again. They do this thousands of times, and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm serious like when i say AI is a huge scam this is partly why

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

this why I believe abstinence is the only real way, but I know it's hard we have been here before with smoking, where the best thing is never to start & the second best is to stop as soon as you can — and it doesn't matter if one cig a day is "not that bad" if you can go down to one go down to nil

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

I have been saying the exact same. AI models seems to be built with the goal of impressing non-knowledgeable people. Vibe coders are amazed by the fact that something runs and it made so many lines!

Hive mind: what is current best practice in EEG for analysing data from task that will involve eye movements?

so, uh, yeah, folks, might want to give that chatgpt-produced draft full of empty rhetoric another read before it goes to your boss

Wait the #Ohio state #medical association endorsed the guy who stole money from #dementia patients over a #medical #doctor??? And these are people who are mandatory reporters of child sexual abuse…

This is 🎯🧪 From a pancreatic cancer researcher in my circle Lately, we have been seeing so many miracles in cancer treatment. We celebrate. That is because we had a great infrastructure that operated efficiently. I don’t want to live in a time when these wins are far off in the rear view mirror.

Was reminded of this by someone's questions to me about how to argue against the (common) claim that LLMs can "summarize", so reboosting as a gentle reminder for you all too

“When the bill comes, and the benefits are compared against the costs, will the industry cheerleading and policy flexibility look like the right move? It is getting harder and harder to see how it will have been.” I wrote about how the generative AI will not pay off — for companies or governments.

Saw this on the PubMed (what we use to look up scientific articles). It's so embarrassing.

Shot: "The author has not independently checked the analyses and does not have the expertise to verify every technical detail" Chaser: "The author takes responsibility for submitting this paper and for the accuracy of this statement." arxiv.org/pdf/2610.28575

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Henrik Godmann’s “Probability Playground” contains over 5 million simple exercises on probability theory! www.bayesianspectacles.org/the-probabil...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Nice to see some of my former AI students selling skills and not selling AI nonsense. > Clara explores whether learning to code is still worthwhile, offering crucial insights into the learning process and the future of programming.

Ambassador: I believe the phrase you are looking for is “betrayal of historical American values”

I’m hiring a postdoc in my lab at the University of Amsterdam! Interested in mathematical psychology, evidence-accumulation models & Bayesian hierarchical modeling? Join us to develop new models of cognitive fluctuations across multiple timescales. Please share! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

I think the most telling thing about this is the author's inability to write it without help from AI. Brain literally atrophying before their eyes.

Just published open access in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘴: “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” 🔗 doi.org/10.1037/met0... 🙎 Co-authors: @bayslab.org, @ivntmc.bsky.social, @cjungerius.bsky.social, Xiaolu Wang, Julie de Falco, Zahara Gironés, Adam Triabhall

A friend who was very good at mushroom foraging (incl MSc in mycology) said always leave one on the counter for toxicology just in case.

Of all the things that never happened, this is the thing that never happened the most. #16DaysUntilTheBeginningOfTheEND-IfYouVOTE 🗳️ ✅

I imagine them grading booze: Avoids arsenic: A Avoids bleach: A Promotes social interaction: A Promotes good decision making: D Overall health grade: B+

hopefully more agree and will start to also act on this, but as a computational modeller, I think and hope more of us start to spend a little more on what models are (for), who / what they serve, etc. (slides from www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DHg... — not exactly what I said yesterday but very related)

“Would you like more information about nephrologists in your area?”

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

This has been my lived experience

Just posting here for posterity: I found a company ripping original analyses, findings and calculations I've done (clearly using an LLM) to sell subscriptions to their software product. lnkd.in/p/enhuFrdE www.greenseal.dev/blog/2026-10... archive.ph/wip/pdjqD

Canada's national teacher union @ctffce.bsky.social just released a fantastic article taking apart the Canadian govt's pro-AI curriculum. It highlights how the curriculum is part of the wider government push for adoption, with little regard for safety. www.ctf-fce.ca/national-ai-...

I really need this right now ♥️♥️

"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"

Thank you François for writing things so clearly and showing us we're not alone. lookingup.francois-rincon.org/an-open-lett...

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

💯 > The rebranding is also a distraction, redirecting public attention away from resource-pillaging data centers, a fragile economic bubble and rising safety concerns. This is a core MO of the industry to avoid critique and escape regulation. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

i appreciate the authors being upfront about the limitation of their work but what can be meaningfully inferred from work like this

This: “The environmental costs, labour exploitation, data extraction, concentration of power, and normalisation of surveillance underlying the technology make it difficult, if not impossible, to meaningfully operationalise and practice “ethical” and “responsible” use.”

I published this in 2024. It remains as true today as it did then — though in need of a refresh on so-called agentic AI, which somehow manages to be even worse for education than chatbots. Free to download here: www.cognitiveresonance.net/resources

Finally, animé par le sentiment de l’urgence, I wrote my own AI statement. Yes, it’s radical. Yes, it will probably make me even less popular among my colleagues, if anyone reads it at all. But I really believe we owe this to our students and our “junior” colleagues.