Friday 16 October, 2026

Love in Venice Seen in 2017. I wonder if that particular craze has passed. Quote of the Day ”These are stochastic-parrot clever-hans software tools, potentially very useful when properly harnessed, but a source of madness to people who fall into the same trap that the gullible fell into when interacting with Weizenbaum’s ELIZA back in the day.” Brad DeLong on LLMs. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Mozart | Concerto For Two Pianos, K. 365; 3rd Movement. Link Long Read of the Day The dangerous myths behind AI agent hacks These are not simply cyber security flaws but problems with the way that models are trained Salutary sense from Yoshua Bengio in the Financial Times (Gift article). Weak cyber defences, including the humans involved, are part of the problem and will never be perfect. But unless we address the root causes of the hacks, they are likely to grow in number and severity as AI capabilities advance. At the core of all of these incidents is misalignment. AI agents…