Bob E Hayes
@bobehayes.bsky.social
PhD in industrial-organizational psychology. Interests in #datascience #customerexperience #statistics #machinelearning #artificialintelligence
"They have chased growth and scale at all costs, and largely, they’ve won. The data-center build-out is the ultimate culmination of that chase: the pursuit of scale for scale itself. In all scenarios, the outcome seems only to be real, painful disruption for the rest of us."
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens - The Atlantic
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:45 AM
"They have chased growth and scale at all costs, and largely, they’ve won. The data-center build-out is the ultimate culmination of that chase: the pursuit of scale for scale itself. In all scenarios, the outcome seems only to be real, painful disruption for the rest of us."
Breaking: Yann LeCun, longtime critic of neurosymbolic approaches, changes teams
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#AI #neurosymbolicAI
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#AI #neurosymbolicAI
Breaking: Yann LeCun, longtime critic of neurosymbolic approaches, changes teams
Yann LeCun has completely flipped
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January 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Yann LeCun, longtime critic of neurosymbolic approaches, changes teams
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#AI #neurosymbolicAI
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#AI #neurosymbolicAI
#AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:57 PM
#AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
World models could unlock the next revolution in #artificialintelligence
World models could unlock the next revolution in artificial intelligence
Why today’s AI systems struggle with consistency, and how emerging world models aim to give machines a steady grasp of space and time
www.scientificamerican.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:15 AM
World models could unlock the next revolution in #artificialintelligence
Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT's Responses When You're Cruel To It
"two researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that as their prompts for OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate."
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#AI
"two researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that as their prompts for OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate."
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#AI
Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT's Responses When You're Cruel To It
Researchers found that as their prompts for OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate.
futurism.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT's Responses When You're Cruel To It
"two researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that as their prompts for OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate."
futurism.com/artific...
#AI
"two researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that as their prompts for OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate."
futurism.com/artific...
#AI
January 17, 2026 at 6:52 AM
UPDATE: Report finds #artificialintelligence risks in #education outweigh the benefits
Threats are around cognitive and social development
Threats are around cognitive and social development
UPDATE: Report finds artificial intelligence risks in education outweigh the benefits
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:46 AM
UPDATE: Report finds #artificialintelligence risks in #education outweigh the benefits
Threats are around cognitive and social development
Threats are around cognitive and social development
January 16, 2026 at 2:30 AM
January 15, 2026 at 10:30 PM
#Artificialintelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract #science’s focus
"AI tools seem to automate established fields rather than explore new ones, highlighting a tension between personal advancement and collective scientific progress."
"AI tools seem to automate established fields rather than explore new ones, highlighting a tension between personal advancement and collective scientific progress."
Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus
Nature - Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating...
www.nature.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
#Artificialintelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract #science’s focus
"AI tools seem to automate established fields rather than explore new ones, highlighting a tension between personal advancement and collective scientific progress."
"AI tools seem to automate established fields rather than explore new ones, highlighting a tension between personal advancement and collective scientific progress."
How #GenerativeAI is destroying society - Gary Marcus
How Generative AI is destroying society
An astonishingly lucid new paper that should be read by all
garymarcus.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:25 PM
How #GenerativeAI is destroying society - Gary Marcus
Reposted by Bob E Hayes
Every single time these people somehow believe that the rest of the AI industry just keeps on trucking if OpenAI dies! Do you think this bullshit keeps spinning without its literal biggest and best-known player with the most users?
January 15, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Every single time these people somehow believe that the rest of the AI industry just keeps on trucking if OpenAI dies! Do you think this bullshit keeps spinning without its literal biggest and best-known player with the most users?
Reposted by Bob E Hayes
“Not only is AI-driven work prone to circling the same crowded problems, but it also leads to a less interconnected scientific literature, with fewer studies engaging with and building on one another.” www.science.org/content/arti...
AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science
Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration
www.science.org
January 15, 2026 at 10:18 AM
“Not only is AI-driven work prone to circling the same crowded problems, but it also leads to a less interconnected scientific literature, with fewer studies engaging with and building on one another.” www.science.org/content/arti...
.@weforum.org Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 flags #AI acceleration, geopolitical fractures; calls for shared responsibility
WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 flags AI acceleration, geopolitical fractures; calls for shared responsibility - Industrial Cyber
WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 flags AI acceleration, geopolitical fractures reshape cyber threats; calls for shared responsibility
industrialcyber.co
January 15, 2026 at 6:56 AM
.@weforum.org Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 flags #AI acceleration, geopolitical fractures; calls for shared responsibility
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its #AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its #AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Let’s be honest, #GenerativeAI isn’t going all that well | Gary Marcus
1. AI can't be trusted.
2. What LLM do largely is memorization.
3. No quantifiable value added.
4. Scaling doesn't work.
1. AI can't be trusted.
2. What LLM do largely is memorization.
3. No quantifiable value added.
4. Scaling doesn't work.
Let’s be honest, Generative AI isn’t going all that well
A sampling of recent news
garymarcus.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Let’s be honest, #GenerativeAI isn’t going all that well | Gary Marcus
1. AI can't be trusted.
2. What LLM do largely is memorization.
3. No quantifiable value added.
4. Scaling doesn't work.
1. AI can't be trusted.
2. What LLM do largely is memorization.
3. No quantifiable value added.
4. Scaling doesn't work.
How to remove Copilot #AI from Windows 11 today
How to remove Copilot AI from Windows 11 today
You don't have to live with Microsoft Copilot in Windows 11. Here's how to get rid of it, once and for all.
www.zdnet.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
How to remove Copilot #AI from Windows 11 today
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About #AI
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI
" extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said.
gizmodo.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About #AI
Apple Teams Up With Google for #AI in Its Products
Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products
Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Apple Teams Up With Google for #AI in Its Products
How visible and invisible #AI shape the #customerexperience
How visible and invisible AI shape the customer experience | MarTech
From chatbots to behind-the-scenes automation, combining visible and invisible AI effectively is key to delivering seamless, satisfying customer experiences.
martech.org
January 13, 2026 at 6:54 AM
How visible and invisible #AI shape the #customerexperience
After #AI review: Google stops dangerous health advice
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#healthcare #hallucinations
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#healthcare #hallucinations
After AI review: Google stops dangerous health advice
There is a risk that sick people believe they are healthy.
www.computerworld.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
After #AI review: Google stops dangerous health advice
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#healthcare #hallucinations
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#healthcare #hallucinations
January 10, 2026 at 6:42 AM