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Marco Ciappelli🎙️✨:verified: :donor:

Wishing a hashtag#HappyWeekend to all Humans… and non-humans.

It’s Newsletter Time! 🤓✨
“Robbie, From Fiction to Familiar — Robots, AI, and the Illusion of Consciousness”

I recently revisited Robbie, the first of Asimov’s iconic robot stories.

I first read it as a teenager in the ’80s, when robots lived in factories and AI belonged in science fiction. Back then, Robbie felt distant. The idea of forming an emotional bond with a machine? Pure imagination.

Today, that story feels… familiar.

We now live in a world where machines talk back. Generative AI writes, simulates empathy, pretends to understand us — and often, we play along. Meanwhile, Robbie never spoke, never faked understanding, yet somehow earned more trust than the machines we surround ourselves with today.

In my latest Musing on Society and Technology, I reflect on how different it feels to experience Asimov’s vision in the age of hashtag#GenAI, illusion, and the subtle performance of understanding.

The lines between fiction and reality? Between trust and simulation? They’re blurring fast — and maybe we’re not wise enough to notice it happening.

Go ahead, read this article — or simply listen to it, there’s a podcast version linked in the newsletter.

linkedin.com/pulse/robbie-from

Enjoy, share, subscribe… and stay human — or not. 🫢
#SocietyAndTechnology #Asimov #AI #HumanMachine #Trust #GenerativeAI #Storytelling #Technology #Cybersecurity #Future #SciFi #Infosec #Society #Sociology #Psychology #Philosophy #Newsletters #Robotics

www.linkedin.comRobbie, From Fiction to Familiar — Robots, AI, and the Illusion of ConsciousnessA new transmission from Musing On Society and Technology Newsletter, by Marco Ciappelli No time to read? No problem. Let my Artificial Intelligence companion, TAPE3, read it to you — it’s got a voice, and a bit of attitude too.
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Anthony Cowley

There’s a lot of very clear thinking in this paper! Hits close to home for me as it strongly relates to the challenge of predicting real world #robotics performance from benchmarks, or how benchmarks can be misleading. arxiv.org/abs/2506.21521

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arXiv.orgPotemkin Understanding in Large Language ModelsLarge language models (LLMs) are regularly evaluated using benchmark datasets. But what justifies making inferences about an LLM's capabilities based on its answers to a curated set of questions? This paper first introduces a formal framework to address this question. The key is to note that the benchmarks used to test LLMs -- such as AP exams -- are also those used to test people. However, this raises an implication: these benchmarks are only valid tests if LLMs misunderstand concepts in ways that mirror human misunderstandings. Otherwise, success on benchmarks only demonstrates potemkin understanding: the illusion of understanding driven by answers irreconcilable with how any human would interpret a concept. We present two procedures for quantifying the existence of potemkins: one using a specially designed benchmark in three domains, the other using a general procedure that provides a lower-bound on their prevalence. We find that potemkins are ubiquitous across models, tasks, and domains. We also find that these failures reflect not just incorrect understanding, but deeper internal incoherence in concept representations.
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Androcat

Believe by Chemical Brothers feat. Kele Okereke remains a masterpiece.

And the video is still amazing, even after all these years, even though it contains 20 year old CGI of automotive assembly robots running rampant in real streets.

This has been a public health announcement.

(example : youtube.com/watch?v=7f2wg1pqQD)

YouTubeThe Chemical Brothers - Believe (Official Music Video)By ChemicalBrothersVEVO
#CGI#Video#ChemicalBrothers
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Robot Talk

Roboticists at the University of Hong Kong have developed a drone with a flexible robotic arm inspired by an elephant trunk. The arm can adapt its shape to grasp almost any object and could be used for transporting and maintenance tasks in dangerous environments. 🤖 techxplore.com/news/2025-06-ae #Robots #Robotics

Tech Xplore · Aerial robot with 'elephant trunk' developed for complex mid-air manipulation tasksBy The University of Hong Kong
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

Need a quick laugh to distract you from the horrors of the world? Just for a minute? I got you.

I tried to find out who made this. I failed. If someone knows, please let me know so I can update with a name and/or link.

(Update: the people who made this are also making AI/robotics weapons systems. So fuck the credit. Watch here, laugh, and don’t give them your web views.)

#Design#Engineering#Products
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Robot Talk

📢 New Episode Alert!

Earlier this month, I chatted to Dr. Petar Kormushev (Imperial College London), Ben Russell (Science Museum) and Dr. Maryam Banitalebi Dehkordi (University of Hertfordshire) about humanoid robots, live at the Great Exhibition Road Festival in London.

Listen now: robottalk.org/2025/06/20/episo #Robots #Robotics #Live #Humanoid #AI #Autonomy #HRI #SocialCare

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