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There has long been a quiet debate, currently drowned out but still very much happening, about human replacement vs human augmentation. Think of Gary Kasparov remarking years ago that he thought chess played by humans with computer assistance could be a far more interesting game than either human-only or computer-only chess.
Here’s an argument for augmentation over automation, and note how far it diverges from the current hype despite it being written from a very AI-friendly point of view:
https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/the-turing-trap-the-promise-peril-of-human-like-artificial-intelligence/

L'Orient en course Š pied
So it rained, and then it was sunny when I got to the treadmill. Should have done the treadmill, way too humid 🤦‍♂️😆
Turns out the bridge I cross when I run this route is falling apart, so I have a detour for a few months.
#running #runnersofmastodon

InverTune: Removing Backdoors from Multimodal Contrastive Learning Models via Trigger Inversion and Activation Tuning
Mengyuan Sun, Yu Li, Yuchen Liu, Bo Du, Yunjie Ge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12411

InverTune: Removing Backdoors from Multimodal Contrastive Learning Models via Trigger Inversion and Activation Tuning
Multimodal contrastive learning models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable vision-language alignment capabilities, yet their vulnerability to backdoor attacks poses critical security risks. Attackers can implant latent triggers that persist through downstream tasks, enabling malicious control of model behavior upon trigger presentation. Despite great success in recent defense mechanisms, they remain impractical due to strong assumptions about attacker knowledge or excessive clean data requir…

Neu: "Till Tonight" mit Till Reiners
Ab 20. Juni übernimmt Till Reiners die Freitagnacht im ZDF mit einer persönlichen Variante der klassischen Late-Night-Show. Mit dabei: Hazel Brugger.
http://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-19.06.2025-till-reiners.html…

A remarkable dynamical symmetry of the Landau problem
Tekin Dereli, Philippe Nounahon, Todor Popov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11642 https://

A remarkable dynamical symmetry of the Landau problem
We show that the dynamical group of an electron in a constant magnetic field is the group of symplectomorphisms $Sp(4,\mathbb{R})$. It is generated by the spinorial realization of the conformal algebra $\mathfrak{so}(2,3)$ considered in Dirac's seminal paper "A Remarkable Representation of the 3 + 2 de Sitter Group". The symplectic group $Sp(4,\mathbb{R})$ is the double covering of the conformal group $SO(2,3)$ of 2+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime which is in turn the dynamical group of a hyd…

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I see @… has a similar reaction about a study that says something we want to hear.
Re that second remark, “The *point* of AI is to make cognitive abilities irrelevant,” well, that’s the thing that’s up for debate right now. Making cognitive abilities (and thus labor, and people) irrelevant is very much the marketing pitch of the hype bubble. That pitch is about cost cutting, and about fear and intimidation — an intoxicating, investor-frothing mixture of fantasy and terror.
It’s not the only vision of AI, however.
https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/114693869134389025

Kann euch das Buch "Opus. The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church" von Gareth Gore empfehlen. Sehr lesenswert. Der Zusammenhang zwischen der Besetzung des US Supreme Court und Opus Dei war mir bspw. völlig neu.
Tatsächlich sehe ich nach dem Buch Papst Benedikt XVI in einem etwas positiveren Licht und Johannes Paul II in einem noch negativeren.

Solche Nachrichten machen Hoffnung
https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/16/german-court-sentences-syrian-torture-doctor-to-life-imprisonment

German court sentences Syrian torture doctor to life imprisonment
Alaa M was found guilty of crimes committed at military hospitals in Syria at the start of the country's civil war. The 40-year-old later moved to Germany, where he worked as an orthopaedic surgeon.