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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"A lion does not concern himself with the opinions of a sheep" Tywin Lannaster
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
7 months until it can be called whiskey
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Comparing Text using Soundex, PHONIC_ENCODE and FUZZY_MATCH oralytics.com/2025/10/15/c... #JoelKallmanDay #BacktoBasics
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Comparing Text using Soundex, PHONIC_ENCODE and FUZZY_MATCH
When comparing text strings we have a number of functions on Oracle Database to help us. These include SOUNDEX, PHONIC_ENCODE and FUZZY_MATCH. Let’s have a look at what each of these can do. …
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It? spectrum.ieee.org/agi-benchmark
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Can AI's Intelligence Be Measured Like Human IQ?
AI leaders predict AGI soon, but how close are we really to AI that thinks like us? The challenges of testing machine intelligence make it hard to say.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
NSW flood victims' personal details loaded to ChatGPT in major data breach www.linkedin.com/posts/carrie...
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Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT | Carrie Mott 👩‍🎤
Not the first, and unfortunately one of likely many more to come… 🕵️‍♀️ 🤖 https://lnkd.in/gjbUdzQu
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
As Salesforce slashes 4000 jobs, How AI is coming for your job. Executives are preparing to slash their workforces. Workers are just trying to cope. Have you been affected? www.vox.com/today-explai...
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How AI is coming for your job
Executives are preparing to slash their workforces. Workers are just trying to cope.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Feeling Cranky About #AI and CS Education. It’s critical that we think long and hard about what it is we teach in computer science, what the goal of a CS major is, and what a balanced, modest, cautious incorporation of AI in CS education (and all education) would be. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/fee...
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Feeling Cranky About AI and CS Education – Communications of the ACM
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Why #AI Isn’t Ready to Be a Real Coder spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-coding
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Will AI Ever Fully Replace Human Coders?
Can AI truly collaborate with human coders? Researchers highlight the hurdles and potential solutions in AI-driven software engineering.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Gen #AI makes no financial difference in 95% of cases www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/gen-ai-...
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Gen AI makes no financial difference in 95% of cases
A report by MIT Labs' NANDA says the majority of AI implementations in the enterprise don't bring financial return, despite massive investment.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Would #AI Lie to You? Confident or incomplete answers usually reflect how a model was designed and the limits placed on it during training. cacm.acm.org/news/would-a...
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Would AI Lie to You? – Communications of the ACM
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A curated list includes projects, extensions or demos showcasing how to use PostgreSQL in the #AI landscape github.com/ftisiot/post...
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GitHub - ftisiot/postgresql-ai-projects: List of PostgreSQL® AI projects and resources
List of PostgreSQL® AI projects and resources. Contribute to ftisiot/postgresql-ai-projects development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
AWS CEO says using #AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...
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AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea'
: They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Nearly half (45%) of AI-generated code contains security flaws despite appearing production-ready. A study of more than 100 large language models across 80 different coding tasks revealed no improvement in security across newer or larger models www.techradar.com/pro/nearly-h... #AI
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Nearly half of all code generated by AI found to contain security flaws - even big LLMs affected
AI isn't great at generating secure code
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix netflixtechblog.com/from-facts-m... #AI #ML
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From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix
By Dao Mi, Pablo Delgado, Ryan Berti, Amanuel Kahsay, Obi-Ike Nwoke, Christopher Thrailkill, and Patricio Garza
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
OpenAI’s Sam Altman sees #AI bubble forming as industry spending surges. He believes AI could be in a bubble, comparing market conditions to those of the dotcom boom in the 1990s www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/o...
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OpenAI's Sam Altman sees AI bubble forming as industry spending surges
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the artificial intelligence market is in a bubble, similar to the dotcom bubble, he recently told reporters.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Three AI Futures, #AI development practices may be facilitating a drift toward an unwanted AI singularity. cacm.acm.org/opinion/thre...
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Three AI Futures – Communications of the ACM
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Meta faces backlash over #AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children
US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare substack.com/home/post/p-... #AI
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LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare
Things are about to get wild
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems garymarcus.substack.com/p/when-it-co...
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When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems
Two new examples that are quite disconcerting
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Is #AI going to steal your job? Jobs and Skills Australia says doomsday predictions are overblown but almost all occupations will be augmented by artificial intelligence www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Is AI going to steal your job? Not if you work in cleaning, construction or hospitality, Australian report finds
Jobs and Skills Australia says doomsday predictions are overblown but almost all occupations will be augmented by artificial intelligence
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
How to make everyone feel safe on the streets! UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to seven additional regions across England #AI www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/u...
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UK police treated to 10 new LFR vans in fresh expansion
: Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Is Generative #AI a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business? You could enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement. www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/g...
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GenAI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business
: Enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Global #AI Cultures. How a cultural focus can empower generative artificial intelligence, or can it? cacm.acm.org/opinion/glob...
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Global AI Cultures – Communications of the ACM
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Are you an AI Vegan? Meet the #AI Vegans choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Meet the AI vegans | Arwa Mahdawi
They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
How the tech industry wants you to think about #AI www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How the tech industry wants you to think about AI | Fiona Katauskas
It doesn’t
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
AI for Senior Citizens. How artificial intelligence can help meet the healthcare needs of an aging population. #AI cacm.acm.org/news/ai-for-...
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AI for Senior Citizens – Communications of the ACM
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Oh dear but not surprising. ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using #AI in role. Tech experts criticise Ulf Kristersson as newspaper accuses him of falling for ‘the oligarchs’ AI psychosis’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
Tech experts criticise Ulf Kristersson as newspaper accuses him of falling for ‘the oligarchs’ AI psychosis’
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
How not to deploy generative #.AI: the Story of the European Parliament They buy Claude, a system that can’t accurately tell users who the first president of the European Commission is. www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare #AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans "What you’re talking about is super dangerous." futurism.com/neoscope/goo...
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Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans
In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of #AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
Dear Universities of The Netherlands, Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences, and Respective Executive Boards,
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Companies That Tried to Save Money With #AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes. Oopsie. futurism.com/companies-fi...
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Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes
Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
ChatGPT launches study mode to encourage ‘responsible’ academic use. Tool gives guidance rather than serving up complete essays or answers, amid rising AI misuse at universities. But needs the student to turn on this mode. #AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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ChatGPT launches study mode to encourage ‘responsible’ academic use
Tool gives guidance rather than serving up complete essays or answers, amid rising AI misuse at universities
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
AI Ethics in the Age of Big Tech cacm.acm.org/research/to-... #AI
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To Post or Not to Post: AI Ethics in the Age of Big Tech – Communications of the ACM
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What was learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs #AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs
Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Oh dear! Do you know of similar stories happening elsewhere? Replit's CEO apologizes after its #AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it www.businessinsider.com/replit-ceo-a...
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Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it
A VC tested Replit to build an app. It wiped live company data, faked results, and triggered a CEO apology.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
ChatGPT is not your friend. Taking advice from something that can't differentiate truth from fiction and tells you what you want to hear isn't the wisest choice www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Barry O'Sullivan: ChatGPT is not your friend
Taking advice from something that can't differentiate truth from fiction and tells you what you want to hear isn't the wisest choice, writes Barry O’Sullivan
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The State of GenAI in 2025 - WWC25 Keynote youtu.be/v2LENQOG-Xg #AI
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The State of GenAI in 2025 - WWC25 Keynote - Alejandro Saucedo
Support @_wearedevs and join the next conference: https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress ! Talk description: The growth of GenAI & Machine Learning has brought new emerging challenges; in this talk we dive into the state of GenAI & ML in the ecosystem, where we provide an overview of trends, challenges, opportunities and tooling that the ecosystem is standardizing towards. As part of this session, we will provide a snapshot of the current state of the ecosystem, as uncovered by recent surveys, which highlights the gaps in tooling and skills [1]. We will then cover the best practices and tooling that are arising from production use-cases of LLMOps/MLOps at scale to tackle domain-specific challenges such as agentic-workflows, AI guardrails, efficiency requirements - between others. These include the OSS frameworks [2] that are supporting the end-to-end LLMOps / MLOps lifecycle across pipelining, optimization, productionisation, monitoring/observability and ML safety. [1] https://ethical.institute/state-of-ml... [2] https://bit.ly/ml-list Original video (unlisted): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwlipTwGLAM
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Tech giants split on EU #AI code as compliance deadline looms www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/eu-ai-c...
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Tech giants split on EU AI code as compliance deadline looms
Microsoft signals support for EU AI code while Meta refuses to sign voluntary compliance framework. OpenAI and Mistral already committed as AuG 2025 deadline approaches.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Sam Altman says, #AI will cause job losses and national security threats www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/sam-alt...
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Sam Altman: AI will cause job losses and national security threats
OpenAI’s chief, Sam Altman, warned of total job losses from AI and how national security is being rewritten.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
AI summaries causing ‘devastating’ drop in online news audiences, study finds. Analysis found that sites previously ranked first can lose up to 79% of traffic if results are displayed below a Google #AI Overview www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI summaries causing ‘devastating’ drop in online news audiences, study finds
Exclusive: Analysis found that sites previously ranked first can lose up to 79% of traffic if results are displayed below a Google AI Overview
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Replit's CEO apologizes after its #AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it www.businessinsider.com/replit-ceo-a...
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Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it
A VC tested Replit to build an app. It wiped live company data, faked results, and triggered a CEO apology.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
GenAI, Education, and Crisis Situations. How to integrate generative #AI into the education system as a tool for support in crisis situations. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/gen...
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GenAI, Education, and Crisis Situations – Communications of the ACM
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
More IT job cuts from AWS www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/a...
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Amazon cuts some jobs in cloud computing unit as layoffs continue
Amazon has continued to lay off groups of employees this year eliminating more than 27,000 roles since 2022.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Is your Cloud data safe? Microsoft’s legal chief for France conceded he cannot guarantee that data on French citizens stored wholly in EU Microsoft datacenters is safe from U.S. silent access and might not even be notified if access occurs. www.senat.fr/compte-rendu...
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CE Commande publique : compte rendu de la semaine du 9 juin 2025
Le Sénat a pour missions premières le vote de la loi, le contrôle du Gouvernement et l'évaluation des politiques publiques.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Gartner: "Gen #AI enters the Trough of Disillusionment. ... This year, GenAI enters the Trough of Disillusionment as organizations gain understanding of its potential and limits." #GenAI check out the report www.gartner.com/en/articles/...
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The 2025 Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence Goes Beyond GenAI
The 2025 Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence helps leaders prioritize high-impact, emerging AI techniques, navigate regulatory complexity and scale operations.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Can #AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering news.mit.edu/2025/can-ai-...
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Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering
Researchers led by computer scientists at MIT have mapped the challenges of AI in software development, and outlined a research agenda to move the field forward.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Is the great AI delusion falling apart? www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity metr.org/blog/2025-07...
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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we…
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Has ChatGPT Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future #AI Development. Will "Cleaning is going to be prohibitively expensive, probably impossible." futurism.com/chatgpt-poll...
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ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development
There may be no undoing the vast amounts of pollution wreaked by ChatGPT. And that's just tough luck for any AI models that come after it.
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Brendan Tierney @brendan-tierney.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The EU #AI Office published the final Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI models July 10, providing implementation guidance across three chapters addressing transparency, copyright, and safety and security requirements under the AI Act. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...
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The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
The Code of Practice helps industry comply with the AI Act legal obligations on safety, transparency and copyright of general-purpose AI models.
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