Mike Watts
@DrMikeWatts
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PhD in artificial intelligence, research experience in IT and ecology. Scientist. Engineer. Educator. Husband. Father. Proud Kiwi.
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined March 2011
The British government continues to push for more #AI: https://t.co/ViWqihIprP
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theguardian.com
Tech equity campaigners compare move to ‘inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse’
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Amazon's cloud services were taken down twice by #AI: https://t.co/MLEikthXDD
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arstechnica.com
Blames "user error, not AI error" for incident in December involving its Kiro tool.
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This is why you don't put an unqualified drunk in charge of the world's most powerful military-he tries to put #AI everywhere and throws a tantrum when he doesn't get what he wants: https://t.co/pVJveYA0da
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theregister.com
: AI firm drops key safety pledge as Pentagon dispute drags on
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#AI are solving maths benchmarks faster than they can be created: https://t.co/y65yF0QetC
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spectrum.ieee.org
AI is tackling PhD-level math, but can it keep up with the toughest challenges yet?
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Workers are being paid less while working more correcting the mistakes of #AI: https://t.co/0MhSwX7KY6
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theguardian.com
Some say the technology is devaluing their work, while others reckon it is not yet – and might never be – good enough to replace them entirely
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Putting #AI in charge of strategy is a bad idea-they are too eager to go nuclear: https://t.co/2CqabZADxw
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theregister.com
: Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same
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I think someone who uses #AI to sit a course for them is missing the point of education: https://t.co/9eijCYi8pT
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insidehighered.com
A young tech entrepreneur launched the tool Einstein this week, marketing it as a way to free students from busywork—and triggering robust faculty debate. Einstein’s creator says that was the whole...
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Weekly Review 27 February 2026: https://t.co/VSjkAaCHZn
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#AI generated writing is often so, so average-it's by design: https://t.co/SbhYDmmmDW
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theregister.com
opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring
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A lot of senior people in #AI companies are getting out: https://t.co/JxLxGPDgDw
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computerworld.com
The people loudly departing the biggest AI companies aren't necessarily looking for fatter paychecks or more stock options; they’re worried that AI businesses are putting profits over sanity and...
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A new approach enables #AI to continue learning, rather than getting stuck in one skill set: https://t.co/vDFGgNsQcT
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dataconomy.com
Researchers at MIT, the Improbable AI Lab, and ETH Zurich have developed a new technique called self-distillation fine-tuning (SDFT) for
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#AI demos are easy, but getting them to be useful and contributing to the bottom line is hard: https://t.co/dxS9a22bFV
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computerworld.com
Analysts warn that too many companies are ‘chasing the shiny object’ when it comes to AI and forgetting the basics of success.
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Unsurprisingly, using #AI to write a letter of remorse after committing a crime tends to annoy the judge: https://t.co/DhiHT51FUu
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rnz.co.nz
Judge Tom Gilbert was unimpressed when he made the discovery after reading Michae Ngaire Win's correspondence and putting it through ChatGPT software to test its authenticity.
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Dating apps are often one of the early adopters for new technology, including #AI: https://t.co/2Ayw8Xu5iW
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theguardian.com
Agentic AI apps first interview you and then give you limited matches selected for ‘similarity and reciprocity of personality’
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It is possible to attack an #AI in such a way that its internal model is revealed: https://t.co/VugM38SpYG
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theregister.com
: Just ask DeepSeek
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