My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy

“ Grem, an #AI stuffed alien toy that the musician #Grimes, helped develop with toy company Curio.

Designed for kids aged three & over, built with #OpenAI’s tech, the toy is supposed to “learn” your child’s personality & have fun, educational chats with them.

It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time…”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/16/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy

My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy

“ Grem, an #AI stuffed alien toy that the musician #Grimes, helped develop with toy company Curio.

Designed for kids aged three & over, built with #OpenAI’s tech, the toy is supposed to “learn” your child’s personality & have fun, educational chats with them.

It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time…”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/16/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy

@SnowyCA I think @JosephMeyer talks about something different than #genAI or pure #GPT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transformer

Scientists and researchers use #machineLearning (which is quite different) especially for large amounts of data, e.g. in climate science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
The theories must still be built by the researchers but they would need years for the data.

We should define more precisely what form we are talking about. #AI is only a popular marketing term for different techniques.

It happened. For the first time in my life. I wrote: "I researched the facts with human brain." 🤯

Perhaps we should invent a human-brain-only label? 🧠
And who will ever thank us real human brain users for this work with our own cells?!?

#LLM #AI #genAI #purelyHuman #brain

Very happy and proud that Matthieu Najm won a best poster award 🏅 at the "Molecular Analysis for Precision Oncology" Congress, in the Artificial Intelligence section, for his excellent work on designing a Semantic Knowledge Graph to integrate highly heterogeneous information and perform mechanistic analysis on it.

If you are interested, our tool set is open-source and ready to help you on various use-cases: 🔗 https://github.com/oncodash

#MAP2025 #science #cancer #oncology #AI #SKG #Oncodash

#AI

From John Unsworth, just-retired dean of libraries at U of Virginia:
https://www.arl.org/blog/john-unsworth-on-libraries-higher-education-and-anti-facism/

"21st-century fascism is not just about governing through force. It’s also about surveillance. It’s about AI in the service of fascism, as a tool of surveillance. It’s about dismembering the public sector…It’s about systematically erasing history, including data and primary source materials. This is foundational, for fascism —to distort the record or obscure it or simply deprive people of public data so that there is no independent source of fact. We’re seeing that right now. We’re also going to see more intimidation of individuals, more anti-union work, more anti-intellectualism, more loyalty tests."

#AI #Fascism #Trump #USPol #USPolitics #Surveillance #USPol #USPolitics

Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI.

Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI.

From John Unsworth, just-retired dean of libraries at U of Virginia:
https://www.arl.org/blog/john-unsworth-on-libraries-higher-education-and-anti-facism/

"21st-century fascism is not just about governing through force. It’s also about surveillance. It’s about AI in the service of fascism, as a tool of surveillance. It’s about dismembering the public sector…It’s about systematically erasing history, including data and primary source materials. This is foundational, for fascism —to distort the record or obscure it or simply deprive people of public data so that there is no independent source of fact. We’re seeing that right now. We’re also going to see more intimidation of individuals, more anti-union work, more anti-intellectualism, more loyalty tests."

#AI #Fascism #Trump #USPol #USPolitics #Surveillance #USPol #USPolitics

#AI

“Signal will not be adding an #AI chatbot à la Meta: WhatsApp does not need an AI agent. It’s a scam. But Mark [Zuckerberg] said you need an agent, so there has to be an agent, like it or not.” — @Mer__edith