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We think we see everything in front of us, but we don't. It can take forever to find one's keys even when they're out, and it took me years to notice the iPhone clock icon's second-hand moving. Here's a blog post on how recent vision science explains it.

Moshe Moshe Vardi giving his Honorary Master Degree lecture at University of Calabria, Italy.
#AI and #Democracy

In the latest #ACMByteCast , a special joint episode w/AMIA's For Your Informatics podcast, Sabrina Hsueh, PhD, FAMIA (@pyhsueh) (@Pfizer) & Karmen (@CUNYSPH) host Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow/AI Ethics Global Leader & President AAAI. Listen & subscribe: learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep53-….

1000 answers / 10 years in Stack Overflow forum. I gathered useful #cplex / #watsonx / #AI IBM examples in GitHub github.com/AlexFleischerP… INFORMS euro-online.org Moshe Vardi Kirk Borne EWG Practice of Operational Research #ORMS The OR Society Operations Research

Could we maybe just start calling “Generative AI” “Rough Draft AI” instead?

It’s great at brainstorming and writing drafts but you should never trust it with final copy for anything.

(And compared to the AI we will have in a couple decades, the whole thing is just a rough…

On my own campus, the Student Association (SA) had to table a resolution to boycott and divest SA funds from Israel-aligned companies after a student filed a discrimination complaint with the Office of Access, Equity and Equal Opportunity (AEEO). medium.com/@vardi/academi…

#OnThisDay in 1910, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin FRS was born. She won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to solve the atomic structure of molecules such as penicillin and insulin, the only British woman scientist to have won a Nobel Prize.

Biden says there would be a ceasefire in Gaza ‘tomorrow’ if Hamas frees hostages timesofisrael.com/biden-says-the… via @timesofisrael

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday replaced his defense minister Sergei Shoigu, a longtime ally wsj.com/world/russias-… via The Wall Street Journal

Fooled by AI? These firms sell deepfake detection that’s ‘REAL 100%.’ washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Some people are calling for the abolishing of DEI offices. I call for taking DEI seriously and apolitically — focusing on some types of diversity but not others reflects a biased political agenda. medium.com/@vardi/us-camp…

Rice University bioscientist Yousif Shamoo has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. bit.ly/44BKHTX

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As I argued in 'Rule of the Robots,' autonomous weapons are probably inevitable:
“For us to sit and pause and reflect on autonomous drones is counterproductive…  we are facing an adversary that doesn't have rules. They don't ponder, ‘should we invade…

Tonight we celebrate #YomHaZikaron , the day we remember Israel's 25,040 fallen, who paid the ultimate price for her defense or in hostile acts perpetrated against her. I will attend the public ceremony and light a memorial candle for my son, Danny, so that he is remembered along…

Undergraduate students approached the department and asked that Palantir be removed from the list, because of its shady data practices. medium.com/@vardi/academi…

Having AI servants will make everything easier for adults.

Having AI servants will make everything easier for children too, who will then not learn to do anything hard.

Tech that helps adults may be harmful to children.
Let them get through puberty in the real world first.

A friend just wrote me that this 2011 piece of mine is a gem: tinyurl.com/y4xywq6w, perfectly relevant to yesterday's vote at the UN, and should be read by anyone concerned with Palestinian statehood. I therefore take the liberty of re-posting it.
Highlight: 'Never in the…

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