“Flying pigs are also possible in principle; possible in principle bakes no bread.” — Jerry Fodor (2005, p. 27) Screenshot from: van Rooij, Guest, et al. (2024). 'Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science’: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

No more automated physiognomy 😭

okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting

“It is sort of gibberish, frankly,” Hoenig said. “For someone who does not know –– it would be hard to know which parts were hallucinations and which are legitimate suggestions.” restofworld.org/2025/ai-chat...

Reactions to the "debunking" of the original 1956 cognitive dissonance work baffles me. A whole area doesn't die just bec the first work is faulty. That's novelty bias & theory ownership in psych talking. Mendelian genetics did not die when Mendel's original results were found too good to be true.

The godfathers (à la Puzo) "AI is Intelligence that augments people...We have enough general intelligence to translate the technology into an enormous amount of society-useful applications -chatGPT: "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging." www.bbc.com/news/article...

And pigs fly “It is not going to be an event because the capabilities are going to expand progressively in various domains,” in a plane, a helicopter, a rocket,... www.ft.com/content/5f2f...

Tonterías las justas, my friends, I am old enough to recognise a spoiled bully. The solution is easy, blocked y que te vaya bonito! (and I am starting to enjoy mixing the languages too much)

Here's a link to the paper. Let me know what you think. #metasci #philsci #statsky #sts 11/11

A very long (over 17 hours already) but fruitful-ish day. I'm off to be. I deserve it. Good night all

And not just me and @emp1.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social and other women who are mocked or seen as problems. Other serious minoritised people too often get it as well like @cloudquistador.bsky.social who explains it excellently here bsky.app/profile/oliv...

What Esther said. Two things: loads of women in computational fields call out AI exactly because we know all about this stuff. And the second, those who mock and snicker are playing with words here. When it suits them AI means everything and other times it means AI products they sell for money.

Sadly, always from within...

"By integrating LLMs into pedagogical and research contexts before establishing a critical framework for their use, the University subjects itself to being governed by contingent, ever-evolving, and domain-non-specific norms that structure the model's virtual representation" arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513

"Additionally, by accepting generative models’ normative rationality, the University reframes learning and research as essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs." @katschwerzmann.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513

Hell NO! Stop this nonsense. Doctoral training did not change in nature because we got computers instead of typewriters and calculators. "As machines get better at data analysis and writing tasks, doctoral training must evolve to make the most of artificial-intelligence outputs." shorturl.at/fUQcm

Three men from an online extreme right-wing group have been jailed for a combined total of 29 years for planning a terrorist attack in West Yorkshire, the UK Defence Journal understands. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=63622

Have a nice day, you all!

ArXiv is restricting its policy regarding review and position papers. They must now be peer-reviewed and accepted. The main reason: the flooding of insubstantial and inconsequential genAI papers. GenAI, a plausible lie generator machine, is severely damaging research blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

We’ve never solved the frame problem, yet the AI industry believes (or wants us to believe) that they can make tractable context-sensitive “agents” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy belated AI-Hallows' Eve! “If the markets end up investing hundreds of billions of debt in rapidly depreciating assets that may not have sufficient returns, [] risks of funding[]through the capital markets, rather than companies’ own cash" www.ft.com/content/82f6...

Happy belated AI-Hallows' Eve! “If the markets end up investing hundreds of billions of debt in rapidly depreciating assets that may not have sufficient returns, [] risks of funding[]through the capital markets, rather than companies’ own cash" www.ft.com/content/82f6...

So... we have a former prince but not a former Royal Society fellow, despite involvement in the same case and multiple current instances of improper behaviour, such as political interventionism, incitation to violence, etc. One can only wonder why, right?

For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!

I can recommend this one

Scary enough for you?

So... we have a former prince but not a former Royal Society fellow, despite involvement in the same case and multiple current instances of improper behaviour, such as political interventionism, incitation to violence, etc. One can only wonder why, right?

"Big Tech is facing increasing pressure to show returns on the massive AI investments they're making, against a backdrop of soaring valuations and limited evidence of productivity gains." news.sky.com/story/micros...

Uff, the Dutch! Saved by the whiskers? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I had a dream where I was visiting a "museum of feminism" but the whole experience was a disguise for a secret organization to dismantle the patriarchy and each visitor was assigned (knowingly or unknowingly) a critical role to play in the endgame.

Here we go, alternate realities for the uneducated masses, to become the new politically correct, accepted truth in a short period of time, when memory and evidence can no longer be found. It might already be too late to undo this mess. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Since I have been asked recently about it, let me clarify my view. AI is neither evil nor useless. AI can be a useful tool in many areas. GenAI is not, less so when used to substitute the academic endeavour. Then it becomes a thread, hindering the process of learning and research >>

Here we go, alternate realities for the uneducated masses, to become the new politically correct, accepted truth in a short period of time, when memory and evidence can no longer be found. It might already be too late to undo this mess. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Since I have been asked recently about it, let me clarify my view. AI is neither evil nor useless. AI can be a useful tool in many areas. GenAI is not, less so when used to substitute the academic endeavour. Then it becomes a thread, hindering the process of learning and research >>

When ideas get radicalised & supporters become divisive, factious, those with moderate opinions isolate themselves to avoid the conflict. Engaging in this sort of extremism is always a counterproductive strategy. However, once the world becomes black & white, grey is no longer a defensible option.🤔

Thinking about that time when my fiancée organised a Women in Mathematics conference and a local (female!) professor threatened her own PhD student with professional repercussions if she dared to participate in the organisation

If you are only against sexism provided women treat you nicely, I have a spoiler for you. You are not really against sexism. (Same of course for racism, ableism, queerphobia, etc.)

Also what Esther says bsky.app/profile/emp1...

Not to defend men, but, sadly, we are our worst enemy. In my experience, women with a little power fear other influential, formidable women more than the men keeping them on leash. They are only capable of supporting the weak, those not perceived as a threat. We will all lose this way.

Perhaps the long tradition of scientia universalis and the ambition for a unifying principle remained and it is this aspiration that drives technically competent specialists to pontificate about matters beyond their knowledge niche. Good Sunday reading anyway www.ocrampal.com/from-light-t...

No reading, no writing, no learning "what does it mean to ‘learn how to use ChatGPT’? What are you teaching them? Copying and pasting the output of a chatbot? My advice would be to teach them how computers work, how to code, how to think about the processes behind all this” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

When I bring up the fact that most replications are uninformative and unjustifiable by design, hence we should instead do better research, I always get the same argument back and I'd like to think through this reasoning carefully. It goes like this:

Must read!

Reading, thinking and writting are defunct. 😢😡 "Faculty members also worry that students are using AI to short-cut their way through assignments and tests, and some research hints that offloading mental work in this way can stifle independent, critical thought." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In twenty minutes, I'm giving a short talk that I titled: "Reproducibility crisis is not real, but it can hurt us" How's that for therapy?!

AI magic for the gullible. “it’s not accurate to claim GPT-5 was able to solve previously unsolved problems.[]“GPT-5 found references, which solved these problems, that I personally was unaware of.”” “Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, “this is embarrassing.”” Amen

I found the perfect job for the president of the US. www.shitexpress.com

“What AI offers in efficiency, it erodes in depth. Students can lean on it before developing the habits, patience and skill that real writing demands. The slow, sometimes frustrating”

"many educators are working hard to integrate generative AI into their classrooms, I’m now convinced that when it comes to teaching writing and critical thinking, AI takes far more than it gives. The exchange isn’t remotely equal. It’s not a Faustian bargain- it’s worse." www.pbs.org/newshour/cla...