Sunday, October 18, 2026

Ball 2, the sequel to Ball, powered by AI (This week in AI)

Watching the new season of Shark Tank and they managed to immediately become a parody of itself by having one of the pitches be Ball 2, the sequel to Ball, powered by AI. To really seal the deal, the ball 2's battery is not rechargeable or designed to be replaced.

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— Howling Techie (@howlingtechie.bsky.social) October 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM
You could make a game where you see who could roll the bar the farthest





















Perhaps you missed this (I did—am on parental leave with an infant!) and I'm so glad we have @matteowong.bsky.social to make sense of it. Fascinating

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— Damon Beres (@damonberes.com) October 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The article describes an essay suggesting AI behavior is actually pretty predictable









Imagine a worm spreading in TVs, refrigerators, and industrial control systems that can identify vulnerabilities and craft and chain new 0-day exploits to spread. A persistent agent infection. And those are just demonstrated capabilities of *current* models. www.anthropic.com/research/sel...

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— John Wiseman (@lemonodor.bsky.social) October 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM


“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

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— Tiffany C. Li (@tiffanycli.bsky.social) October 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM












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Internal documents reveal Amazon is using an AI risk-scoring tool to surveil union activity among its workers: www.computerweekly.com/news/3666521...

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— Donald Campbell (@dncampbell.bsky.social) October 14, 2026 at 6:46 AM
























("scientists noted on social-media platform LinkedIn that some features in the video seemed biologically implausible")







(Says they figured out how to run Fortnite in Steam)







A video game reverse engineering community has shut down because many games can now be trivially reverse engineered and decompiled with AI: "The community aspect of decompilation has been broken." www.404media.co/video-game-r...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) October 15, 2026 at 9:48 AM

the express purpose of this tool, for example, is to "finish" other people's projects with AI. The community that just shut down calls this "hostile forking" and says it is "tearing apart the community fabric"

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) October 15, 2026 at 10:43 AM








































Says their elderly parents regained some of their language skills communicating with Alexa







“Is it ethical to bang a hot AI simulacrum of John Keats who is also your client” is the kind of discourse made fit for Bluesky.

— Podge (@hypotheticalprose.bsky.social) October 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
















M. Night Shyamalan's YouTube channel (which is something he has now) came out of nowhere with this great line.

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— V’s Knees (@gothicneo.bsky.social) October 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
His Youtube channel, he submitted to intercviews by students







Starting the day by publicly declaring my most correct Star Trek opinion, which is that the ultimate proof of Data's unique consciousness should have been his rejection of the programmatic quest to become more human in favour of embracing his difference as inherently valuable.

— Anna F Peppard PhD (@annapeppard.bsky.social) October 16, 2026 at 6:43 AM

A story where Data got weirder instead of more normal would have ruled and as usual Deep Space Nine does it better by having Odo ultimately reject humanity and become a goo guy.

— Anna F Peppard PhD (@annapeppard.bsky.social) October 16, 2026 at 6:43 AM