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Logical but not Reasonable (opens the original)
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The Addictiveness of Coding Agents (opens the original)
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From Steven Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet, “‘I can’t stop’: 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful”:Coddy Tech, a programming training company, found in a survey of 305 developers that “Four in five developers (80%) say their AI use has felt more like dependence than an advantage.” Sure, they found these tools useful, but
China Gets In On AI Fearmongering (opens the original)
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From Cheryl Teh at Business Insider, “China’s intelligence chief just gave a revealing glimpse into what Beijing fears most about AI”:Chen Yixin, China’s minister of state security, published an article Sunday morning in China Cyberspace, a journal run by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s internet regulator.In it, Chen identified six major risks AI could pose to Beijing. The first was “regime security.”He wrote that “various hos
Should we be afraid to Just Ask A Robot (JAAR)? (opens the original)
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Killer Robot Nukes Soybeans! (opens the original)
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From Rob Thubron at Techspot, “Farmer trusted AI after it gave good advice, then it helped wipe out 25 acres of his crops”:Most readers of this site know not to blindly trust AI on important matters, even if it got things right before. A farmer in Chuzhou, China, discovered this the hard way when he took weed and pest control advice from a chatbot. The result was the death of 25 acres of crops.The 67-year-old farmer was recommended by the AI to use “high-efficiency flupyrimethalinR
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