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Social media is filling up with influencers telling us how to become much more intellectual. A great, enriching idea – or just another cue to show off?Name: Disgustingly educated.Age: About 18 months. Continue reading…
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We’re pleased to announce that we will be giving an introduction to science communication for AI researchers at AAAI this year. This will be held on Wednesday 21 January from 13:00 – 14:30. The session is part of the Undergraduate Consortium programme. However, if you are attending the conference and fancy finding out how you
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Elise Racine & The Bigger Picture / Web of Influence I / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 In March 2025, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), published a report on the Future of AI Research. The report, which was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi covers 17 different AI topics and aims
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Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writingIn a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles.“AI gets lots of things wrong,” he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face.
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This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 January and 28 February 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 9 January 2026 LLM Introspection Speaker: Murray Shanahan Organised by: Imperial College London Join here. 14 January 2026 Disentangling regional
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Fewer children are reading for fun – but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engagedIt’s been a tough year for our brains. Merriam-Webster dictionary editors chose “slop” as 2025’s word of the year. New York Magazine recently dropped its “Stupid Issue”, with a cover story exploring America’s collective “cognitive
Candidates will have to sit assessments in person unless there are exceptional circumstances, says ACCABusiness live – latest updatesThe world’s largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications.The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which has
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Participants and organizers of the TriCon AI Workshop: (L-R) Travis Wagner (Trinnex), Alana Gildner (BV), Yudu (Sonia) Wu (WSP), Madeleine Driscoll (Hazen and Sawyer), Craig Daley (City of Baltimore), John Smith (Haley Ward), Brian Ball (VA Engineering), David Gisborn (DC Water), and Davar Ardalan (TulipAI). Brandon O’Daniel of Xylem, one of the speakers, was not
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TL;DR In 2026, the businesses that win with AI will do three things differently: redesign core workflows around AI agents, treat AI as an operating system rather than a toolset, and deliberately restructure human work to compound AI advantages instead of fighting them.By 2026, AI will no longer be a differentiator by itself. Nearly every
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They have unleashed irresponsible innovations on the world and their slop generators have flooded academia, says Dr Craig ReevesI’m not surprised to read that the field of artificial intelligence research is being overwhelmed by the very slop that it has pioneered (Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’, 6 December). But
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