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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 6h

Police Say People Keep Calling 911 Over an 'AI Homeless Man' TikTok Prank

Find another way to mess with your parents.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 5h

Fair

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16h

Just for the record: Wreck-It Ralph is the best movie set in the Tron universe.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16h

Another allegedly "liberal" billionaire tech mogul bends a knee

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 18h

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 19h

"ads sometimes show when the display is set to show personal photos"

Oh that on the shelf? That's just pictures of my family: there's Sam and Linda, Sport, our golden retriever, and Elderberry herbal supplements

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 20h

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…”…

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Reuters @reuters.com · 22h

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence reut.rs/4h2JXgV

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence

Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 20h

“This is a place for edgelord humor” 😬

www.businessinsider.com/sora-videos-...

Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me.

Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.

www.businessinsider.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 2d

That’s an interesting answer from someone at Anthropic.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 2d

did they answer the question “are LLMs worth it?”

Why is Anthropic giving this talk when so many have made all these points before? (Rhetorical question, doesn’t need to be answered).

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 2d

Fact o morning: Three of the six Nobel Prize winners in the sciences are Americans who are immigrants. www.wsj.com/opinion/nobe...

Opinion | Immigrants and American Nobel Prizes

Three of the six U.S. science winners this year are foreign-born.

www.wsj.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sub-skeeting current events

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 2d

(See Asimov's Caves of Steel for hop-on-hop-off conveyor belt side walks.)

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 2d

It's all in the sales-pitch. Disrupt transportation! Make it impossible to drive a car in Manhattan! (then bait-and-switch)

I think giant bumper cars in congested spaces sells itself really.

The carousel thing... pitch it as turning the city into an amusement park of horrors and evil clowns.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 2d

Me: comic-book villains are not very believable

*2024 happens*

Me: okay, fine. But no one believes that a hero will dress up as an animal like a bat or a spider or a, I dunno, a frog, and face down the bad guys.

*2025 happens*

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 2d

There is a lot more money readily available for people interested in blowing up the moon, if I understand Silicon Valley.

(Torment nexus and all that tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...)

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3d

This is like the wholesome cozy version of The Onion.

Anyway I have a new hero

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 3d

Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Dr Fred Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him.

www.bbc.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3d

Hi all,

Georgia Tech is holding its 2nd Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society October 28-29th in Atlanta.

rcais.github.io

Our speakers and schedule is set. It's going to be great!

If you are planning to be in Atlanta and want to join us, registration is now open on the website.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3d

Oh uh, am I cliche? bsky.app/profile/mark...

Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 4d

If you're at #COLM2025 on Friday Oct 10, I'll be giving an invited talk in the Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning.

The title is: "Reasoning, Explanation, and Human-Centered AI".

Below I have tentatively diagrammed the flow of my talk.

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 4d

COLM word cloud. Yoav says it’s the year of reasoning, but evaluation is also huge.

Evaluation reasoning interpretability rl in context benchmark alignment synthetic data

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed!

Pin it 📌 to follow along with the conference this week!

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 5d

accidentally caused Nano Banana's system prompt to leak, but in a fun way

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 4d

If you're at #COLM2025 on Friday Oct 10, I'll be giving an invited talk in the Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning.

The title is: "Reasoning, Explanation, and Human-Centered AI".

Below I have tentatively diagrammed the flow of my talk.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 5d

Finally had to upgrade my iPhone to the version with the Liquid Glass UI. I appreciate the Apple UI team’s gradual evolution from “too many notifications” to “too many notifications but now you can’t read them”

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