Brendan Tierney

Comparing Text using Soundex, PHONIC_ENCODE and FUZZY_MATCH When comparing text strings we have a number of functions on Oracle Database to help us. These include SOUNDEX, PHONIC_ENCODE and FUZZY_MATCH. Let’s have a look at what each of these can do. …

Comparing Text using Soundex, PHONIC_ENCODE and FUZZY_MATCH oralytics.com/2025/10/15/c... #JoelKallmanDay #BacktoBasics

Can AI's Intelligence Be Measured Like Human IQ? AI leaders predict AGI soon, but how close are we really to AI that thinks like us? The challenges of testing machine intelligence make it hard to say.

Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It? spectrum.ieee.org/agi-benchmark

Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT | Carrie Mott 👩‍🎤 Not the first, and unfortunately one of likely many more to come… 🕵️‍♀️ 🤖 https://lnkd.in/gjbUdzQu

NSW flood victims' personal details loaded to ChatGPT in major data breach www.linkedin.com/posts/carrie...

How AI is coming for your job Executives are preparing to slash their workforces. Workers are just trying to cope.

As Salesforce slashes 4000 jobs, How AI is coming for your job. Executives are preparing to slash their workforces. Workers are just trying to cope.
Have you been affected?
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Feeling Cranky About AI and CS Education – Communications of the ACM Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing.

Feeling Cranky About #AI and CS Education. It’s critical that we think long and hard about what it is we teach in computer science, what the goal of a CS major is, and what a balanced, modest, cautious incorporation of AI in CS education (and all education) would be. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/fee...

Will AI Ever Fully Replace Human Coders? Can AI truly collaborate with human coders? Researchers highlight the hurdles and potential solutions in AI-driven software engineering.

Why #AI Isn’t Ready to Be a Real Coder spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-coding

Gen AI makes no financial difference in 95% of cases A report by MIT Labs' NANDA says the majority of AI implementations in the enterprise don't bring financial return, despite massive investment.

Gen #AI makes no financial difference in 95% of cases www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/gen-ai-...

Would AI Lie to You? – Communications of the ACM Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing.

Would #AI Lie to You? Confident or incomplete answers usually reflect how a model was designed and the limits placed on it during training. cacm.acm.org/news/would-a...

GitHub - ftisiot/postgresql-ai-projects: List of PostgreSQL® AI projects and resources List of PostgreSQL® AI projects and resources. Contribute to ftisiot/postgresql-ai-projects development by creating an account on GitHub.

A curated list includes projects, extensions or demos showcasing how to use PostgreSQL in the #AI landscape github.com/ftisiot/post...

AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea' : They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?

AWS CEO says using #AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...

Nearly half of all code generated by AI found to contain security flaws - even big LLMs affected AI isn't great at generating secure code

Nearly half (45%) of AI-generated code contains security flaws despite appearing production-ready. A study of more than 100 large language models across 80 different coding tasks revealed no improvement in security across newer or larger models www.techradar.com/pro/nearly-h... #AI

From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix By Dao Mi, Pablo Delgado, Ryan Berti, Amanuel Kahsay, Obi-Ike Nwoke, Christopher Thrailkill, and Patricio Garza

From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix netflixtechblog.com/from-facts-m... #AI #ML

OpenAI's Sam Altman sees AI bubble forming as industry spending surges OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the artificial intelligence market is in a bubble, similar to the dotcom bubble, he recently told reporters.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman sees #AI bubble forming as industry spending surges. He believes AI could be in a bubble, comparing market conditions to those of the dotcom boom in the 1990s www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/o...

Three AI Futures – Communications of the ACM Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing.

Three AI Futures, #AI development practices may be facilitating a drift toward an unwanted AI singularity.
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Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines

Meta faces backlash over #AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare Things are about to get wild

LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare substack.com/home/post/p-... #AI

When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems Two new examples that are quite disconcerting

When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems garymarcus.substack.com/p/when-it-co...

Is AI going to steal your job? Not if you work in cleaning, construction or hospitality, Australian report finds Jobs and Skills Australia says doomsday predictions are overblown but almost all occupations will be augmented by artificial intelligence

Is #AI going to steal your job? Jobs and Skills Australia says doomsday predictions are overblown but almost all occupations will be augmented by artificial intelligence www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK police treated to 10 new LFR vans in fresh expansion : Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech

How to make everyone feel safe on the streets!
UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to seven additional regions across England #AI www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/u...

GenAI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business : Enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement

Is Generative #AI a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business? You could enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement. www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/g...

Global AI Cultures – Communications of the ACM Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing.

Global #AI Cultures. How a cultural focus can empower generative artificial intelligence, or can it? cacm.acm.org/opinion/glob...

Meet the AI vegans | Arwa Mahdawi They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

Are you an AI Vegan? Meet the #AI Vegans choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How the tech industry wants you to think about AI | Fiona Katauskas It doesn’t

How the tech industry wants you to think about #AI www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI for Senior Citizens – Communications of the ACM Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing.

AI for Senior Citizens. How artificial intelligence can help meet the healthcare needs of an aging population. #AI
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‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role Tech experts criticise Ulf Kristersson as newspaper accuses him of falling for ‘the oligarchs’ AI psychosis’

Oh dear but not surprising. ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using #AI in role. Tech experts criticise Ulf Kristersson as newspaper accuses him of falling for ‘the oligarchs’ AI psychosis’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How not to deploy generative #.AI: the Story of the European Parliament They buy Claude, a system that can’t accurately tell users who the first president of the European Commission is. www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.

Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare #AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

"What you’re talking about is super dangerous."

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of #AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

Companies That Tried to Save Money With #AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes. Oopsie. futurism.com/companies-fi...

ChatGPT launches study mode to encourage ‘responsible’ academic use Tool gives guidance rather than serving up complete essays or answers, amid rising AI misuse at universities

ChatGPT launches study mode to encourage ‘responsible’ academic use. Tool gives guidance rather than serving up complete essays or answers, amid rising AI misuse at universities. But needs the student to turn on this mode. #AI
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