Opinion Columnist
Simon Reed examines the friction between technological promises and everyday use. His columns focus on product disappointments, unintended consequences and the work left to users when a system falls short. He is skeptical of novelty for its own sake.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) continue their tradition of profound disappointment, proving inherently incapable of defending themselves against even basic prompt injection attacks, according to recent research from arXiv arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →Another batch of academic papers has arrived, this time attempting to teach our digital overlords the perplexing, often inconvenient, art of human emotion. A collection of research published concurrently on arXiv on April 28, 2026, details various efforts to imbue AI with capabil...
Read article →The latest research out of arXiv suggests that despite the breathless hype, even models like GPT-5. 4 continue to exhibit fundamental flaws, specifically struggling with basic logical negation....
Read article →Another day, another deluge of AI research papers dropped on arXiv, offering a stark glimpse into the ongoing, tedious struggle to make computer vision systems genuinely useful in the real world. Despite grand pronouncements about AI's capabilities, the latest batch of pre-print...
Read article →The seemingly endless pursuit of predictive infallibility continues unabated, with a recent deluge of AI research papers surfacing on arXiv, all focused on time series forecasting and analysis. Published just yesterday, April 28, 2026, these five distinct studies highlight attemp...
Read article →Elon Musk's much-anticipated testimony in the ongoing OpenAI trial saw him appear "adrift and unprepared," a stark contrast to previous court appearances where he actively sought to charm juries The Verge. The man who once co-founded OpenAI offered a decidedly flat performance, o...
Read article →Former FBI Director James Comey has found himself at the center of another legal maelstrom, indicted yet again by the U. S....
Read article →Yet another 'intelligent' framework has emerged from the digital ether, this time promising to diagnose the myriad ways general aviation aircraft inevitably fail, according to its authors. A new paper, arXiv:2604....
Read article →The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has initiated an expedited license renewal review for Disney-owned ABC broadcast stations, a move that comes with almost preternatural timing, just one day after President Donald Trump publicly demanded the firing of late-night host Jim...
Read article →One might have hoped that by 2026, humanity would have gained some semblance of control over its increasingly autonomous digital creations. Apparently not....
Read article →Three new artificial intelligence research papers, all published on arXiv CS. LG today, outline algorithms aimed at bringing a semblance of order to domains perpetually plagued by ambiguity: from incomplete scientific data to the ever-mystifying motivations of financial investors...
Read article →Well, isn't this just typical. Just when you think a new theoretical breakthrough might actually simplify something, the messy reality of time series data comes along to reintroduce all the old problems....
Read article →Soil salinity, a persistent environmental blight, continues its relentless creep across coastal Bangladesh, jeopardizing agricultural output and local existence. In what might charitably be called a step forward, a new machine-learning framework has been developed to predict and...
Read article →Another day, another electronic gadget proving less robust than its marketing materials suggest. A hardware manufacturer, identified only as a 'Gateway manufacturer,' has finally deigned to acknowledge an unspecified 'issue' affecting its products....
Read article →Another day, another testament to the utterly predictable failings of artificial intelligence. Canva, the design platform, has been forced to issue an apology after its "Magic Layers" AI feature was caught automatically replacing the word "Palestine" with "Ukraine" in user design...
Read article →Spotify, in a move that feels as inevitable as sunrise, has officially launched into the fitness content arena, integrating workout videos, curated playlists, and even an extensive library of Peloton classes directly into its application. For those of us who thought endless music...
Read article →One might think that after all this time, the process of training algorithms would be, if not simple, at least… consistent. Apparently not....
Read article →The persistent, draining effort to understand and secure artificial intelligence systems has been further highlighted by two new research papers published today on arXiv. Researchers are grappling with the escalating “transparency tax” imposed by complex language models and the f...
Read article →The dream of fully autonomous domestic robots, apparently, remains precisely that: a dream. Despite persistent industry hype, new research underlines the profound, mind-numbingly complex challenges that still plague the field, particularly when it comes to simply interacting with...
Read article →Despite the relentless parade of "advances" in artificial intelligence, recent papers from arXiv confirm what the perpetually disillusioned among us have known all along: the fundamental challenges remain. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), those purported beacons of futur...
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