Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 31/07/20261/3 How do you feel about living in a world full of rude robots that have been trained to navigate from watching first person shooter games and to treat you as an NPC (non player character)? [Admittedly, in such a game it is better to be an NPC...] I asked Gemini about this new set of startups: 284
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This year, the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track made the decision to require that all papers be substantially human-written, with AI used for only copy-editing or similar peripheral changes to the main text! For more details, please check our blogpost: blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a...blog.neurips.cc 063
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Just for the record this is a stupid headline. The robots are carrying out automated steps moving samples around and using vision to apply tools. They don't "know" what they are doing and certainly have no conception(!) of what a baby, human, or conception are. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comRobots are learning to make human babies. Twenty have already been born.One in six people of reproductive age suffer from infertility. Start-ups are using AI-powered robots to increase IVF success rates and lower costs. 0213
Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · 17/06/2025youtu.be/YRJHIJy5Nnoyoutu.beIntroducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social MediaYouTube video by Elena Rossini 010
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The year is 2025, Google has finally found a use-case for AI: to compete with Chegg and Cliff’s Notes 1144
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Big news 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...iccl.ieEU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basisEU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ... 618888
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 22/04/2025Earth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4) 12193401804
Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · 22/04/2025ACM SIGSOFT #SummerSchool on #SoftwareEngineering for #Robotics June30-July4 #TUDelft 📢 Application Period: April 1 – April 30 📅 Notification of Acceptance: May 10 Application and additional info: www.scivenia.com/en/event/acm... 110
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Mehmet Mars Seven ♞ @mehmetmars7.bsky.social · 18/04/2025"It's wonderful watching the well of knowledge being poisoned in real time". 📷 Emily Gorcenski 17326
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Gillian Saunders @mrsaerolec.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Two of the 200+ awesome delivery robots that drove around ribotics lab the past 2 days! Made by our year 2 TU Delft BSc Mechanical Engineering students who knew nothing about robotics, ROS & electronics 2 weeks ago! I kept the batmobile for my office. #AcademicSky #Engineering #engineeringeducation 142
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 30/03/2025I was a member of the panel that produced this report. All of us have spent our careers working on AI. Amongst the hypesters that is probably seen as a disqualification for understanding anything about AI. gizmodo.com/ai-experts-s...gizmodo.comAI Experts Say We’re on the Wrong Path to Achieving Human-Like AIAn extensive report on the future of AI research indicated that there's skepticism about current approaches to AGI. 36916
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/03/2025This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.nytimes.comOpinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear. 511586622
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Today in our AI future: someone on LinkedIn posted that humans have the same biases as AI (and tagged me since my 2017 paper showed this), and the Berlin newspaper complained because google maps hadn’t reflected the surprise transit strike. #AIEthics 042
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I was happy to sign this scientific consensus statement on bias and discrimination in AI. www.aibiasconsensus.orgaibiasconsensus.orgScientific Consensus on AI Bias 27118
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 21/03/2025There is no space for racism in the EU. No one should be denied a job, home, or opportunity because of their race or ethnic background. On International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and every day, the EU stands united against racism, for a #UnionOfEquality. 20483119
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Sebastijan Dumancic @sdumancic.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Sicco Verwer, Annibale Panichella, and I are hiring! If you are interested in program synthesis and repair, explainable AI, and reducing errors in software, consider applying! lnkd.in/djir-dshlnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 013
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/01/2025What is socialism, if not the state owning the memes of production 40157681145
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Oligarchs have the freedom to voice opinions on other countries. The EU does not have the freedom not to enforce its rules.politico.euZuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companiesComparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry. 129828
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Which is also why twitter and @archive.org are under attack (twitter is even occupied). And google? At least @wikimedia.bsky.social is in Berlin. I wish more of these resources were not physically dependent on US servers. 14215
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social · 23/12/2024🖥️ 304816363
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 21/12/2024𝗢𝟯 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟳𝟱% 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗥𝗖-𝗔𝗚𝗜. OpenAI did not disclose this in the video. Sam said they didn’t target the test. Never trust a staged demo. Never trust a product you haven’t tried. Never trust OpenAI. 2438655
Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · 19/12/2024El otro día Jorge Ponce dio en @larevueltatve.bsky.social una de las mejores definiciones de #robot que he oído: “es robot si tiene bracicos y te puedes disfrazar de ello” 020
Reposted by Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 14/11/2024This was seven years ago. I think about this often. 525620