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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 7d

Just for the record this is a stupid headline. The robots are carrying out automated steps moving samples around and using vision to apply tools. They don't "know" what they are doing and certainly have no conception(!) of what a baby, human, or conception are. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Robots are learning to make human babies. Twenty have already been born.

One in six people of reproductive age suffer from infertility. Start-ups are using AI-powered robots to increase IVF success rates and lower costs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · Jun 17

youtu.be/YRJHIJy5Nno

Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

YouTube video by Elena Rossini

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Jun 5

The year is 2025, Google has finally found a use-case for AI: to compete with Chegg and Cliff’s Notes

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jun 5

So, uh... I just did a Google search which was not about homework... because I haven't been in school in decades, and I got this pop up from Google. And, like, I actually think there are ways to use AI in school properly, but this kind of advertising from Google seems... super sketchy.

Get more homework help with AI Mode. Ask follow-ups to get help with your toughest homework questions.

Buttons: Not Interested / Continue

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · May 14

Big news

7 years in the making

www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis

EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...

www.iccl.ie

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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · Apr 22

Earth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

A view of Earth rising above the Moon's horizon, taken from space. The Moon's barren, gray surface stretches across the lower portion of the image, while Earth appears as a small, vibrant blue-and-white sphere against the vast blackness of space.

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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · Apr 22

The week will
Start with a BANG!
@fmrico.bsky.social will teach ROS 2 on the very first day!

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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · Apr 22

ACM SIGSOFT #SummerSchool on #SoftwareEngineering for #Robotics June30-July4 #TUDelft

📢 Application Period: April 1 – April 30
📅 Notification of Acceptance: May 10
Application and additional info:
www.scivenia.com/en/event/acm...

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Mehmet Mars Seven ♞ @mehmetmars7.bsky.social · Apr 18

"It's wonderful watching the well of knowledge being poisoned in real time".
📷 Emily Gorcenski

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Gillian Saunders @mrsaerolec.bsky.social · Apr 2

Two of the 200+ awesome delivery robots that drove around ribotics lab the past 2 days! Made by our year 2 TU Delft BSc Mechanical Engineering students who knew nothing about robotics, ROS & electronics 2 weeks ago! I kept the batmobile for my office. #AcademicSky #Engineering #engineeringeducation

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · Mar 30

I was a member of the panel that produced this report. All of us have spent our careers working on AI. Amongst the hypesters that is probably seen as a disqualification for understanding anything about AI. gizmodo.com/ai-experts-s...

AI Experts Say We’re on the Wrong Path to Achieving Human-Like AI

An extensive report on the future of AI research indicated that there's skepticism about current approaches to AGI.

gizmodo.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 29

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.

Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)

A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · Mar 28

Maybe robotics researchers like me often forget how brains work 😅

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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · Mar 27

Why should we trust what this blogpost says? They also state: “Current frontier AIs are vastly better than humans at text prediction and knowledge tasks.” Which does not correspond with many experiences of experts with “frontier AI” models.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Mar 23

Today in our AI future: someone on LinkedIn posted that humans have the same biases as AI (and tagged me since my 2017 paper showed this), and the Berlin newspaper complained because google maps hadn’t reflected the surprise transit strike.

#AIEthics

Google kennt keinen
BVG-Streik
Hilfe, Stau! Was Navi-Apps als Umfahrung der gesperrten Brücke anbieten, ist überraschend
Uta Keseling

Berlin. Die Nerven liegen blank: Wegen Baufälligkeit ist am Autobahndreieck Funkturm die Ringbahn-brücke der A100 in nördlicher Richtung komplett gesperrt. Der Verkehr wird über die Gegenrichtung umgeleitet, Stau ist programmiert.
In Stoßzeiten bedeutet dies für Autofahrer zusätzliche Verzögerun-gen, die Umfahrungen in direkten Nähe sind dicht. Was sagen Karten-dienste wie „Google Maps" dazu?
Am Donnerstagnachmittag geben wir als „Testroute" eine Strecke von Britz nach Tegel ein. Also eine Route von Neukölln nach Reini-ckendorf, die normalerweise über die nun gesperrte Seite der Brücke führt. Beide Stadtteile liegen an der A100. Für die rund 25 Kilometer lange Strecke über die A110 und A111 würde man bei wenig Verkehr laut „Maps" rund 30 Minuten brau-chen. Gegen 15 Uhr errechnet die App knapp eine Stunde Fahrtzeit und nennt als Route eine Umfahrung über Konstanzer, Branden-burgische- und Lewishamstraße sowie Tegeler Weg, bevor es am Jakob-
an. Die Fahrtzeit wäre damit nicht länger als sonst. Als weitere Alternative wird eine Route ab Messedamm undin die Neue Kantstraße angebo-ten: Über Herbartstraße, Wundt-und Riehlstraße auf den Kaiser-damm, über Sophie-Charlotte-Stra-ße und Spandauer Damm auf die A100 Richtung Norden.
Der Apple-Dienst „Karten" bietet zusätzlich die Fahrt quer durch die Innenstadt über die B96 an - von Britz aus über die Ausfahrt Tempel-hofer Damm bis Hauptbahnhof, durch Wedding über Müllerstraße und Scharnweberstraße wieder auf die A111. Dies sei mit gut einer Stunde die schnellste Route.
Als Alternative wird bei beiden Diensten der ÖPNV genannt. Allerdings wird bei Google trotz BVG-Streiks eine Route mit Bussen und U-Bahnen genannt. Mit viermaligem Umsteigen und zehn Minuten Fußweg wäre man nach rund 90 Minuten von Britz nach Tegel gereist.
Apples „Karten" empfiehlt immerhin die S-Bahn. Vom S-Bahnhof Hermannstraße…

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Mar 21

I was happy to sign this scientific consensus statement on bias and discrimination in AI.

www.aibiasconsensus.org

Scientific Consensus on AI Bias

www.aibiasconsensus.org

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Mar 21

There is no space for racism in the EU.

No one should be denied a job, home, or opportunity because of their race or ethnic background.

On International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and every day, the EU stands united against racism, for a #UnionOfEquality.

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Sebastijan Dumancic @sdumancic.bsky.social · Feb 20

Sicco Verwer, Annibale Panichella, and I are hiring!
If you are interested in program synthesis and repair, explainable AI, and reducing errors in software, consider applying!

lnkd.in/djir-dsh

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · Feb 22

Beste wensen voor Michael, en sterkte to alle collegas in de Science Centre. Het spijt me dat nu dat ik kinderen heb, de Science Centre niet zo mooie meer als het was, door de “TUD strategie”.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Jan 19

What is socialism, if not the state owning the memes of production

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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · Jan 12

“But I just make this basic point: access to British society and our economy is a privilege – it’s not a right. And none of our basic protections for children and vulnerable people are up for negotiation.” I hope all our legislators and governments will stand for this.

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · Jan 11

Oligarchs have the freedom to voice opinions on other countries.

The EU does not have the freedom not to enforce its rules.

Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies

Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.

www.politico.eu

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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · Jan 9

Idiocracy too?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Dec 26

Which is also why twitter and @archive.org are under attack (twitter is even occupied). And google? At least @wikimedia.bsky.social is in Berlin. I wish more of these resources were not physically dependent on US servers.

Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Dec 25

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

www.newsweek.com

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Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social · Dec 23

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Dec 21

𝗢𝟯 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟳𝟱% 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗥𝗖-𝗔𝗚𝗜.

OpenAI did not disclose this in the video. Sam said they didn’t target the test.

Never trust a staged demo.
Never trust a product you haven’t tried.
Never trust OpenAI.

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