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Finished reading "Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley". This is a compilation of the actual words said by the founder of startups of companies like Microsoft, Apple, Atari, Google, Napster, Facebook, dot com market bust since the 70's, 80's, 90's,2000's.

Artificiality Book Awards 2025 plus a working library of past must-reads Congratulations to the winners of the Artificiality Book Awards 2025!

"The argument runs deeper than most discussions--even many academic ones--about the myths that continue to be reproduced through our stories about AI..." Congrats to "Artificial Humanities" on being named a 2025 Artificiality Book Award winner!

Artificiality Book Awards 2024 Congratulations to the authors of of the Artificiality Book Awards 2024!

Artificiality Book Awards 2024

2024 was a banger year for books in our space and Helen has selected ten books for the Artificiality Book Awards 2024:

Without further ado, the winners are...

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In Tron: Ares, the AI escapes from his virtual-world through pseudo-advanced 3D printing. This type of storyline is a reverse "Isekai Ten'i" (Japanese) a fantasy character leaves their fantasy-world and enters into our own reality. Could AI one day will itself into existence?

MIT researchers ML Machine Learning Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) deep AI Models LLMs shadows converge to scale trained with different corpus body of data

MIT (2024) researchers recently proposed the Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) to explain how AI Models LLMs are all starting to converge (behaving in similar ways) as these continue to scale (get bigger) even when they were trained with different corpus (body of data).

No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is

Also very cool: a study from 2024 found that in Scottish women fully vaccinated with the HPV vaccine in 2008, *no* cases of cervical cancer have been found. Not a single one. 100% success rate.

Co-author: "It is [now] possible to make cervical cancer a rare disease.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

https://www.galaxy.com/insights/perspectives/dead-internet-theory-collapse-online-truth

DIT (Dead Internet Theory) a 2016 conspiracy theory becomes real. Asserts humans no longer drive the internet. Since 2024, cybersecurity reports estimate over 51% of content was bot-generated eroding user trust leading to a "crisis of perception" as users interact less with real people.

It’s great that @economist.com is talking about our paper in their piece on “slop” as word of the year — not so great that they don’t cite/link to it…

www.economist.com/culture/2025...

Yes! We are still muscle-memory agents and we can only learn complex tasks (writing or math) by doing them, and building upon the fundamental knowledge. Writing is still the truest form of escapism and communication even with the advent of radio, film, TV, the Internet, or AI; for that matter.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Content (even AI) is the Internet's ecosystem - pay to be seen or get paid for showing. Random SLOP (animated or realistic-looking) has entrainment or escapism value. However, the SLOP that looks realistic should be tagged as fake content.

New AI models detect dementia with high accuracy using EEG signals Researchers at örebro University have developed two new AI models that can analyze the brain's electrical activity and accurately distinguish between healthy individuals and patients with dementia, in...

Örebro University, Sweden, released an EEG-AI model for detecting dementia 7 years before the symptoms appeared (in some instances 10-18 years before formal diagnosis) by analyzing disruptions in our alpha, beta, and gamma sleeping patterns.

news-medical.net/news/2025112...

AI SLOP (Standard Low Quality Production) refers to low quality, high volume content. It's repetitive, absurd, has hallucinations, misquotes, fakes, etc. Intended to go viral and generate ad revenue while using emotional or shocking visuals and cheap to create. 

youtube.com/watch?v=uqcoTwPUSn4

In the Short-Term AI help increase employee productivity but in the Long-Term reliance on AI can undermine the psychological experience of the human workforce, new study finds.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

pmc.ncbi.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Absence Of Reasonable Risk in AI models implies an "acceptable" minimal risk when weighed against the benefits where the potential harm caused is not greater than what is encountered in our daily life and where appropriate actions were taken to minimize those possible dangers.

Using AI without validating outputs (i.e., accuracy, references, meaning, etc.) may result in Abdication Of Responsibility which may result in harm to reputation, no future business, revoked license, lawsuits, dropped from risk insurance coverage for malpractice, and so forth.

AI Tools 120 Mind-Blowing chatbot writing productivity design video

120 AI products. 🤓 Eventually AI products consolidate into a few good products or their life-cycle ends replaced by new options. Only time will tell which products will survive the market. 😵‍💫 (Tap on image to see the top and bottom edge)

AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.

We can't really say this enough...

> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.

www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

Riana Pfefferkorn | Stanford HAI Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI

Kids may underestimate the dangers that AI-powered apps can pose if misused at school. Riana Pfefferkorn, policy fellow at Stanford University HAI (Human-Centered AI) will discuss this topic. You can register to attend virtually.

hai.stanford.edu/people/riana...

The Tooth Fairy gets more generous every year — but is $100 too much to give a child? "I saw the crisp Benjamin as the child was waving it around at pick up," one crestfallen mom wrote.

Sounds like the kid's hustle 🤣!! In 2023 a single tooth was worth $6.23, up from $5.36 in 2022, and a record high in its 25-year history since the insurance carrier Delta Dental started the poll. In today's economy that little tooth🦷be worth about $6.57 😂.

www.yahoo.com/news/tooth-f...

Plurilingual AI. It's very common for fluent bilinguals (or plurilinguals) to flip languages mid conversations without missing a heart beat. This includes spoken spoken languages or Deaf sign languages too! Spanglish, Chinglish, Punjinglish, Germanglish, nerdglish, and now I'm making names up 🤪

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What a coinkidinky! Most excellent adventure!

Imagine Calvin having access to ChatGPT.

Since most of the data - if randomly collected - falls naturally on a statistical distribution curve. So, yes, avoid dichotomizing your data variables (avoid forcing it into two only categories) unless the data is already naturally dichotomized (i.e., alive or dead, etc.)

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", known as the "Sagan Standard" is an aphorism popularized by astronomist Carl Sagan in his book Broca's Brain (1979) and TV show Cosmos (80's) with roots in David Hume's philosophy essay "Of Miracles" (1748) and later by Pierre-Simon Laplace.

I found eerie themes: Smart devices invading your privacy, AI awareness offering your products and services to enhance your happiness, bringing the world to your finger tips instantly in your own language. Talking to an indifferent entity (i.e., ChatGPT), while dismissingthe possibly dangers.

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What is "mojibake"? It's an unintentional mismatch in how one software encoding accidentally misreads the code characters from another software. It's an accidental side effect of data software not being able to be properly handled due to lacking standardization or configuration.

Your job is safe! For now. Despite hype, AI cannot work alone. New measuring benchmark highlights how valuable human domain knowledge and project management skills are in freelance projects. Several AI platforms failed 97% at completing full freelance projects.

arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787

Data pioneer: Dutch mathematician Tycho Brahe (Tee-Koh Brā-hē) rigorously collected astronomical data. On Oct 13, 1601, Brahe attended a royal banquet in Prague his bladder burst for not going to the restroom; wanting to be polite. He died 11 days later in extreme pain.

Today visited Klinker Brick Winery in Lodi, CA. I got the $15 tasting (6 reds x 2 oz. each = 12 oz). Some are better with a meal. The 2021 Dolcetto was particularly smooth on its own, with no aftertaste. I did not buy any bottles, but it was fun to do. www.klinkerbrickwinery.com/About-Us/Our...