Join us for our next CCCM "The Cognitive Science of Generative AI" seminar:

"Foundation models of human cognition"
Marcel Binz,
Helmholtz, Munich
Tuesday, April 2nd, 16;00 BST, online

registration: https://psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-seminar-series/

Abstract: Most cognitive models are domain-specific, meaning that their scope is restricted to a single type of problem. The human mind, on the other hand, does not work like this – it is a unified system whose processes are deeply intertwined. In this talk, I will present my ongoing work on foundation models of human cognition: models that cannot only predict behavior in a single domain but that instead offer a truly universal take on our mind. Furthermore, I outline my vision for how to use such behaviorally predictive models to advance our understanding of human cognition, as well as how they can be scaled to naturalistic environments.

#LLMs #AI @cogsci @philosophy

TechCrunch: Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/open-source-devs-are-fighting-ai-crawlers-with-cleverness-and-vengeance/ #AI #LLMs

This is why we can't have nice things.

"Lee recently launched Interview Coder, an "invisible" AI tool for job candidates to cheat on technical questions during coding interviews. Lee's startup sells access to the tool for $60 a month"

Columbia suspends student who created AI tool that helps people cheat in coding interviews
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/columbia-suspends-student-who-created-ai-tool-that-helps-people-cheat-in-coding-interviews/ar-AA1BMYHp

404 Media: Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is ‘Insult to Life Itself,” Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI

https://www.404media.co/hayao-miyazaki-who-said-ai-is-insult-to-life-itself-reduced-to-ai-generated-meme-by-openai/

The capitalist mindset.
#Amazon is just another store.
#Turkey is just another holiday destination.
A #Cybertruck is just another mode of transport.
#Nestle is just another coffee brand.
Factory farmed #chicken is just another source of protein.
#LLMs (#AI) are just another tool.

#Capitalism needs you to ignore the social and environmental costs, and think only of personal benefits.

https://www.businessinsider.com/roleplay-pretend-chatgpt-writes-password-stealing-malware-google-chrome-2025-3
#cybersecurity #ChatGPT #LLMs #malware #infostealer

List of AI bots to add to robots.txt (although they may not obey -- may need to throw them in the bitbucket and 404 or 444 them). In addition to these, you may have to block specific random browser versions for the most aggressive bots who ignore robots.txt.

https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/robots.txt

This frustrated sysadmin ends his justified and informative rant with this:

"If you personally work on developing LLMs et al, know this: I will never work with you again, and I will remember which side you picked when the bubble bursts."

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

Show top #LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them - https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/llms_buggy_code/ "when shown a snippet of shoddy code and asked to fill in the blanks, AI models are just as likely to repeat the mistake as to fix it." #useless

Luminance Launches AI Contract Negotiator https://www.byteseu.com/841134/ #AI #AIStartups #ArtificialIntelligence #blockchain #Bria #GenAI #GenerativeAI #Halliday #IntellectualProperty #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #Luminance #News #PYMNTSNews #SmartContracts #startups #Web3

If you’re having any concerns about the excessive energy uses of #AI, don’t worry - companies are working tirelessly to bring those numbers down and are not shying away from doing whatever it takes to make them look good. Heroic, really.
#SavetheAI #Google #Meta #Apple #Microsoft #LLMs #creativeAccounting #greenwashing

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

"If you use these models on your own laptop by downloading them because they’re open source, the behavior is very different than if you use it as a chatbot on their officially hosted website. The censoring or business logic that prevents your chatbot from saying potentially problematic things happens more in the cloud layer than the models themselves, though some occurs in the model as well."

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-what-it-means-and-what-happens

VentureBeat: The risks of AI-generated code are real — here’s how enterprises can manage the risk

".... As organizations move from experimental mode into production mode, they have increasingly come to the realization that code is very buggy. Shaukat noted that AI-developed code can also lead to security and reliability issues. The impact is real and it’s also not trivial...."

https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-risks-of-ai-generated-code-are-real-heres-how-enterprises-can-manage-the-risk/

I basically have a DIY Perplexity setup running in OpenWebUI (which is running politely alongside Plex). I'm using Mistral-Large with web search via SearXNG and the system prompt that Perplexity uses for their Sonar Pro searches.

And since OpenWebUI has an OpenAI-compatible API, I can connect to it from this GPTMobile app on my phone and query my custom search assistant model.

Gibts nochmal, weil so toll

Interaktiver Workshop #ki in #bibliotheken #datenschutz #urheberrecht und #kiverordnung
26.03, 09:30 – 13:00, Online

KI zur Erschließung eigener Bestände
Training von #LLMs
Upload von Dokumenten in #KIChatbots zu Analysezwecken
Fremde #Urheberrechte + gesetzliche #Nutzungsfreiheiten
Datenschutzrecht
Anforderungen aus der #kiverordnung

Gemeinsam werden Lösungen für praxisnahe Szenarien erarbeitet

@DGIInfo
https://dgi-info.de/event/ki-anwendungen-in-bibliotheken-datenschutz-urheberrecht-und-ki-verordnung/

Microsoft Considering AI Models to Replace OpenAI’s in Copilot https://www.byteseu.com/809907/ #AI #AIChatbots #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #Copilot #CopilotAI #DigitalTransformation #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #microsoft #News #OpenAI #partnerships #PYMNTSNews #What'sHot

Terry Pratchett - on point as always:

"Who knew who really wrote anything? What could you trust? Where was the holy writ? Where was the truth?"

https://www.europesays.com/1896124/ Microsoft Considering AI Models to Replace OpenAI’s in Copilot #AI #AIChatbots #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #Copilot #CopilotAI #DigitalTransformation #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #Microsoft #News #OpenAI #partnerships #PYMNTSNews #What'sHot