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Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI generated music is becoming more common, and harder to detect by listeners: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/deezer-says-44-of-new-music-uploads-are-ai-generated-most-streams-are-fraudulent/ Michael Dell is funding research towards an AI-led hospital system: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360969141/michael-and-susan-dell-fund-ainative-medical-center-750 Out of date UK government web pages have been ingested by AI, which are now giving […]

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):People who use AI more have less confidence in their own intellectual abilities: https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-cognition-study The pain AI is causing educators-mostly caused by students using it to cheat: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain/ AI on the edge of the cloud continues to be a growth area:

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):You can’t trust an AI shopping agent to not screw things up: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/target-ai-agent-tos Concepts you need to understand to use LLM AI effectively: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-llm-engineering-concepts-explained-in-10-minutes Using AI means designers can evaluate designs orders of magnitude faster than before: https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering I understand that

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Using AI leads to people losing their logical thinking skills: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/ These five statistical biases are worth knowing if you work with AI training data: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-most-common-statistical-traps-in-faang-interviews One way to defeat AI plagiarism in class is to make students use typewriters: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-professor-typewriters

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI rollouts fail because staff are scared of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/workplace_ai_forrester/ Looks like even AI can become over-confident from false praise: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/ai_models_persona_prompting/ Shoe-horning a huge AI model into a PC seems like an impressive engineering achievement for a problem that doesn’t exist:

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):More doom and gloom about how AI is going to make young people unemployed. Not that the CEO of an AI company is really neutral about it: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceo-ai-gen-z-unemployment Should AI agents have to prove they are working for a particular human?

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI-powered surveillance is booming in Africa: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/12/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts Building a new AI data centre in New Zealand. Well, near Invercargill they won’t have to worry about cooling: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360951065/massive-ai-factory-could-impact-sea-life-cultural-values AI are now engaging in ad hominem attacks when they don’t get their way:

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Is using AI to counsel schoolkids really a good idea? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/03/schools-student-ai-counselor Anxiety around AI is making people sick: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4138046/people-are-getting-sick-of-ai-literally.html The impact of AI on teaching high school English: https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/mar/03/cheating-machine-or-powerful-assistant-the-ai-anxieties-of-a-trainee-teacher New Zealand is not prepared for the use of AI in electioneering: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/588398/ai-is-already-creeping-into-election-campaigns-nz-s-rules-aren-t-ready