If you savor jargon-enriched descriptions of iffy much-touted computer-involved approaches to using small amounts of data about things that are difficult to measure and interpret, this study may be of special interest: “AI-driven prediction of consumer liking of coffee from sensory data,” Michael Gunning, Maite Pilar Serantes Laforgue, Jean-Xavier Guinard, and Ilias Tagkopoulos, npc Science […]
Make what you will of the Readability, Reliability and Quality of this newly published paper: “Evaluating AI Chatbots in Penis Enhancement Information: A Comparative Analysis of Readability, Reliability and Quality,” Mehmet Vehbi Kayra [pictured here], Hakan Anil, Ilturk Ozdogan, Suhail Mohamed Amin Baradia, and Serdar Toksoz, International Journal of Impotence Research, epub 2025. (Thanks to […]
Consider the plight of hypothetical artificially intelligent beings. This study worries about exactly that: “Taking AI Welfare Seriously,” Robert Long, Jeff Sebo, Patrick Butlin, Kathleen Finlinson, Kyle Fish, Jacqueline Harding, Jacob Pfau, Toni Sims, Jonathan Birch, and David Chalmers, arXiv 2411.00986, 2024. The authors explain: “We argue that there is a realistic possibility that some […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Corporate determinism — Nominative determinism occurs not just to people, but also to companies. This is evident from an Associated Press report about a lawsuit aimed at a firm named Chopt Creative Salad Company: “The lawsuit filed […]