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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥

@chcorbato.bsky.social
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Associate professor at Cognitive Robotics | Mechanical Engineering | Delft University of Technology. Opinions are my own.

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
1/3 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:
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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This 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...
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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Just 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.com
Robots 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.
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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
YouTube video by Elena Rossini
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The year is 2025, Google has finally found a use-case for AI: to compete with Chegg and Cliff’s Notes
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Big news 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...
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EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
EU 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 ...
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 22/04/2025
Earth 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)
A view of Earth rising above the Moon's horizon, taken from space. The Moon's barren, gray surface stretches across the lower portion of the image, while Earth appears as a small, vibrant blue-and-white sphere against the vast blackness of space.
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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
ACM 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...
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Mehmet Mars Seven ♞ @mehmetmars7.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"It's wonderful watching the well of knowledge being poisoned in real time". 📷 Emily Gorcenski
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Gillian Saunders @mrsaerolec.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Two 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
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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I 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...
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AI Experts Say We’re on the Wrong Path to Achieving Human-Like AI
An extensive report on the future of AI research indicated that there's skepticism about current approaches to AGI.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/03/2025
This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
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Opinion | 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.
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Today 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
Google kennt keinen
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Hilfe, Stau! Was Navi-Apps als Umfahrung der gesperrten Brücke anbieten, ist überraschend
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Berlin. Die Nerven liegen blank: Wegen Baufälligkeit ist am Autobahndreieck Funkturm die Ringbahn-brücke der A100 in nördlicher Richtung komplett gesperrt. Der Verkehr wird über die Gegenrichtung umgeleitet, Stau ist programmiert.
In Stoßzeiten bedeutet dies für Autofahrer zusätzliche Verzögerun-gen, die Umfahrungen in direkten Nähe sind dicht. Was sagen Karten-dienste wie „Google Maps" dazu?
Am Donnerstagnachmittag geben wir als „Testroute" eine Strecke von Britz nach Tegel ein. Also eine Route von Neukölln nach Reini-ckendorf, die normalerweise über die nun gesperrte Seite der Brücke führt. Beide Stadtteile liegen an der A100. Für die rund 25 Kilometer lange Strecke über die A110 und A111 würde man bei wenig Verkehr laut „Maps" rund 30 Minuten brau-chen. Gegen 15 Uhr errechnet die App knapp eine Stunde Fahrtzeit und nennt als Route eine Umfahrung über Konstanzer, Branden-burgische- und Lewishamstraße sowie Tegeler Weg, bevor es am Jakob-
an. Die Fahrtzeit wäre damit nicht länger als sonst. Als weitere Alternative wird eine Route ab Messedamm undin die Neue Kantstraße angebo-ten: Über Herbartstraße, Wundt-und Riehlstraße auf den Kaiser-damm, über Sophie-Charlotte-Stra-ße und Spandauer Damm auf die A100 Richtung Norden.
Der Apple-Dienst „Karten" bietet zusätzlich die Fahrt quer durch die Innenstadt über die B96 an - von Britz aus über die Ausfahrt Tempel-hofer Damm bis Hauptbahnhof, durch Wedding über Müllerstraße und Scharnweberstraße wieder auf die A111. Dies sei mit gut einer Stunde die schnellste Route.
Als Alternative wird bei beiden Diensten der ÖPNV genannt. Allerdings wird bei Google trotz BVG-Streiks eine Route mit Bussen und U-Bahnen genannt. Mit viermaligem Umsteigen und zehn Minuten Fußweg wäre man nach rund 90 Minuten von Britz nach Tegel gereist.
Apples „Karten" empfiehlt immerhin die S-Bahn. Vom S-Bahnhof Hermannstraße…
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I was happy to sign this scientific consensus statement on bias and discrimination in AI. www.aibiasconsensus.org
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Scientific Consensus on AI Bias
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 21/03/2025
There 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.
An image shows two firefighters with shovels on top of a torn-down building. One is overlayed in yellow, the other in blue. The words "United in diversity" are at the top left corner, and the European Commission logo is in the bottom right corner.
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Sebastijan Dumancic @sdumancic.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Sicco 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-dsh
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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
What is socialism, if not the state owning the memes of production
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Oligarchs have the freedom to voice opinions on other countries. The EU does not have the freedom not to enforce its rules.
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Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Which 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.
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Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
𝗢𝟯 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.
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Carlos Hernández Corbato 🟥 @chcorbato.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
El 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”
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 14/11/2024
This was seven years ago. I think about this often.
A tweet from Tim van der Zee, from August 10, 2017, that reads: "Academia is a bunch of people emailing "sorry for the late response" back and forth until one of them gets tenure."
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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