Norbert Reithinger

@norbertreithinger@sigmoid.social
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Almost retired dialog systems researcher, still associated with DFKI (German Research Center for AI) Contributions may be in English or German #gofai #nlp #dialog #dfki #climate

An all male panel talking about #AI discrimination.

Priceless. #wiconf2025

With so much hype and recent articles on "AI for coding" and how everyone not doing it is dumb maybe this is a good time to relink my article on "Vibe Coding".

Which I think focuses purely on "output" when developing or creating something is not just about the output.

https://tante.cc/2025/05/23/on-vibe-coding/

On "Vibe Coding"

The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning models”/”deep research”, both terms being factually untrue and deeply deceiving at best) and moved to a new double whammy of “agentic AI” and “Vibe Coding”. Now “agentic AI” basically just means that some LLM […]

Smashing Frames
Students, THIS is how generative AI (ChatGPT et alia) "reads" papers and "understands" content. It's a bullshit machine, a gaslighting machine. It shows the linguistic behavior of a psychopath (is this what us humans average to, if one trains on all our "content" and online behavior?). Yikes.
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

Everything Is A Wave

The aforementioned disruption is going according to plan, or at least forecast, apparently.

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
https://scholar.social/@davidschlangen/109630972687710195

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

404 Media
In the responses to my #rp25 talk this year I got a lot of "Now digital rights organizations are libertarian? When did that change?" and I am sorry to say that digital rights discourse has been imbued with if not based on libertarian belief systems since the beginning. That is the heritage we need to move beyond.
"What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that. What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast." mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman... #AI #LLM

Jason Gorman (@jasongorman@mas...
Jason Gorman (@jasongorman@mastodon.cloud)

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that. What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

mastodon.cloud
In 2022, China overtook the United States as the leading country for natural-sciences output. In 2023 China was top overall - according to the Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/nature-index-research-leaders-india-follows-china-footsteps
By slashing science funding, the US is handing global science leadership fully to China.
»3 Questions: How to help students recognize potential bias in their AI datasets« https://news.mit.edu/2025/3-questions-recognizing-potential-bias-in-ai-datasets-0602 #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI
3 Questions: How to help students recognize potential bias in their AI datasets

Courses on developing AI models for health care need to focus more on teaching how to identify and address bias, says MIT Research Scientist Leo Anthony Celi.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Please watch and act!

" Yet a path remains open - through science-based change that secures prosperity on a resilient and stable planet."

https://youtu.be/Nq2QAVA32NM?si=oq21eU799toTq4DP

#climate #ClimateAction #republica25

re:publica 25: Johan Rockström - Decisive Decade:  From Global Promises to Planetary Action

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