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Digital sovereignty isn't a phrase you often hear in the US, but it's a big deal in Europe. Here's why.

GenAI does some neat, helpful things, but it’s not yet the engine of a new economy — and it might not ever be.

Reasonable People #76: You probably think open-mindedness is a virtue. Be careful. Others may be willing to punish you for it.

Word je vaker als bron genoemd door LLM's (AI-taalmodellen) als je een llms.txt-bestand uploadt op je website?

Will powerful new tools be used to promote democracy or undermine it?

Instructions on how to setup AI task entities with Home Assistant.

Some things never change

Er is vandaag te weinig wetenschappelijk bewijs dat sociale media slecht zijn voor het mentale welzijn van jongeren. Dat blijkt uit een nieuw onderzoek van de UGent. De onderzoekers hebben een 40-tal studies over het gebruik van sociale media geanalyseerd, en ook zelf de effecten gemeten. "Voor individuele cases kan er impact zijn, maar het geldt niet voor alle jongeren", klinkt het.

Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

Screen time has become synonymous with bad news - but the science may not be as straightforward as it seems

Whether students and faculty are actively using AI or not, it is having significant interpersonal, emotional effects on learning and trust in the classroom.

Documentation related to my use of UvA AI Chat. Contribute to tijmz/uva-aichat development by creating an account on GitHub.

Universities have relied on expert knowledge being scarce, but AI is changing that. Tuition now needs to focus on human skills that machines still struggle to copy.

In a paper in the RSC journal Green Chemistry, Prof. Gadi Rothenberg of Heterogenous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry and chemistry student Tycho Ehrhardt provide a perspective on the future of the hydrogen economy. Using a simple but robust ‘back-of-the-envelope’ calculation combining thermodynamics and economics, they show that green hydrogen cannot account for even 10% of the world energy demand by 2050. Considering also the requirements needed for building a worldwide green hydrogen infrastructure, they conclude that “the hydrogen economy narrative, while elegant and desirable, has no basis in reality in the 21st century”.

LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb