Are people fooled by these AI customer service agents that have more natural and less polished voices? There is a serious uncanny valley situation going on, and I personally would prefer a business be transparent about it being an AI.

This is just, like, my opinion, but I think everyone should be going out and snapping up the amazing deals on late model low mileage electric vehicles. Everything about driving my ID.4 is fantastic and comfortable and it's also the *cheapest* car I've ever owned, like cheaper than my 02 VW Jetta.

This is kind of old news because the exhibit debuted in 1983, but the model plants in the Plants of the World exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum are astounding. Just draw droppingly good.

We got a 3D printer and we decided to print an Easter decoration for my mom. Except it turns out it's a little weird and it's probably AI's fault.

I think Fodor & Pylyshyn's 1988 paper is possibly the most mischaracterized paper in the history of cognitive science. It's often cited as arguing that neural networks cannot achieve systematicity, compositionality, and productivity. But that's not what they actually argue...

I just had a conference paper desk rejected by an automated system I believe to be an AI. The email said that the reasons for the desk rejection were listed at the end of the email. There were zero reasons listed. It's a reviewable paper. I'm not new at this. AI is really bad for reviewing.

I can buy twice as much chicken for the same price at Costco than I can at Cub, but I also have a place to store it. I have to admit that I have been kind of shocked at how expensive groceries are at the normal grocery store. Feels more like the shopping you do when you’re on vacation at a cabin.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

AI philosophers in 2026:

ctrl-f for "psychologist", find a bunch of CS and EA people with no obvious formal training in psychology doing dumb shit based on nonreplicable social psych awww yeah

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

Well, I was surprised at how well they did at times, and I guess this explains it.

There are some people who go so big with their lies that others just can't believe someone would attempt such a big lie. I've known these people personally and I've seen them heading federal agencies. It's our responsibility to not let them get away with it.

Congrats to iOS 26 for simulating uncorrected astigmatism.

Brilliant.

It's a shame they're going to crash the economy in order to learn that current AI technology is less than half baked.

The details on the Kirkland Signature x Nike SB Dunk Low are insane

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

Scenes from Chicago today

Looks like Barney has finally had enough of Florida's bullshit.

This is starting to look more and more like some sort of fraud or market manipulation

OpenAI needs at least $500 billion in cash to fund its operations in the next 4 years, and $432.5 billion *on the low end* to meet their other obligations - more than the combined available capital of the top 10 PE firms ($477bn) and US venture capital ($164bn). www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Currently attending a conference & our field is quite a bit into fancy modeling, so it’s time to repost this blog post. Don’t try to squeeze your research question into whatever model is fashionable right now; try to build the right model for your research question. www.the100.ci/2024/08/27/l...

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

I strolled in and it was a bit toasty. So I turned the thermostat down, and the room cooled off. Oh. My. God. After living through 20 years of placebo thermostats in offices, classrooms, and labs, I'm flabbergasted.

Oh man, thank you CNN. It's been a heck of a day and I really needed the laugh.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

People who think that learning statistics will help people understand statistics have a very poor understanding of statistics.

Some of the brightest lights I’ve known have been forced to eat shit repeatedly in their careers. And they were the “lucky” ones—in that they were able to stay in the game. Many more just got completely pushed out and we never know about them except as faceless statistics.

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Yes, @jamellebouie.net's thread is spot on. We know from lots of research in social & in cognitive psychology that perception can become reality for many (if not all) of us in small & big ways, even when the perception is not just flawed, but not based on reality until we manifest it in some ways.

Yesterday in the orientation for my first year course on 3D form a student raised their hand and asked whether they should leave the object in the wound or remove it when someone is impaled by a projectile during the course. While unlikely, I appreciate this level of intensity in the classroom.

who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes

"there are no gray squares, man, it's just in your mind"

Whenever I try to explain this to people who call themselves designers, I get a blank stare. But if you don't understand how your product mediates behavior, you should not be doing this job.

what an absolute and utter shambles this is, in just about every way americabydesign.gov

What is it about human brains that allows us to reason symbolically whereas most other animals cannot? And why does AI sometimes struggle to generate images of objects in statistically unusual spatial relationships to each other, when people wouldn’t struggle to imagine such relationships?

I fucking called it "the next one is coming very soon and is gonna be AGI for real this time" is the only move in their book

I too want my AI to have the disposition of a bear protecting its cubs. Seriously, though, what could possibly go wrong with an AI trying to make the set of concerns it is responsible for outcompete all other life on the planet over a narrow objective function? That's not the plot of any movies.

Large Language models (LLMs) do not simulate human psychology. That's the title of our new paper, available as preprint today (1/12): arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

🤖If you're at all following AI progress on benchmarks, this Nature article is very accessible and enlightening. Lesson: Don't rush in and evaluate an AI model on some established or bespoke benchmark without critical thought. AI studies require AI expertise. Don't let #badbenchmarks propagate!

Eye movements are cheap, right? Not necessarily! 💰 In our review just out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Alex Schütz and I discuss the different costs associated with making an eye movement, how these costs affect behaviour, and the challenges of measuring this… rdcu.be/eAm69 #visionscience #vision

New paper: we argue that an individual's propensity to compare items and discover abstract relational rules, rather than focus on surface similarity, is stable across learning tasks, and is independent of working memory capacity. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

I've personally seen bad actors chasing prestige claim scientific credit for work they didn't do, and my observation has been that the institutions are completely unprepared mentally or procedurally to handle it. It's often so brazen that nobody can believe it could really be happening.