AI Oversight Is Becoming a Board IssueBoth AI and ESG encompass a wide breadth of corporate issues, with considerable overlap, including: Environmental—As AI models grow in size and complexity, so does the necessary computer processing power, which can carry a very large carbon footprint. Social—Companies that deploy AI for hiring, lending, housing, or insurance decisions [...]Read More... from Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-07-20| Bionic Teaching
The Astronomer CEO’s Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia| Bionic Teaching
Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weights Live Music Model The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communicationThe lethal trifecta of capabilities is: Access to your private data—one of the most common purposes of tools in the first place! Exposure to untrusted content—any mechanism by which text (or images) controlled by a malicious [...]Read More... from Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-07-06| Bionic Teaching
I’ve got a couple of faculty members who are doing research that involves old newspapers and magazines. The captures are of varied complexity and quality. Some of them are from the nwespaper.com site, some are phone photographs. I hear that Acrobat’s OCR function does a good job with normal scans of documents. I did a [...]Read More... from OCR and old newspapers| Bionic Teaching
My job is to identify problems that can be solved with code, then solve them, then verify that the solution works and has actually addressed the problem.| Bionic Teaching
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My goal this morning was to see if I could tie in the OpenAI API for a project where I uploaded images to WordPress and it automatically extracted the text from the image. Since I’ve been using the OpenAI API previously and had a decent amount of success with text extraction, I went ahead and tried that. | Bionic Teaching
Scrappy is an infinite canvas of interactive objects. The workflow is similar to an app such as Figma, Miro, or Google Slides — except you can attach behaviors to the objects.| Bionic Teaching
That you need to do these things might in fact point at how agentic AI does not behave with cognitive fluency,5 and instead, the user subtly does it on its behalf in order to be productive.| Bionic Teaching