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@cnbusinessforum@mstdn.business · 3 hours ago

[ #TRADESHOW] The 3rd #China #Embodied #Intelligent #Robot #Industry #Conference & #Exhibition ( #Hangzhou) 2026 will be held from March 11 to 13, 2026, at Hangzhou #International #Expo #Center. As one of China’s #leading #platforms dedicated to the rapidly expanding field of embodied #intelligence and intelligent #robotics, the exhibition #highlights #breakthroughs in #humanoid #robots, #industrial #automation, #companion robots, and #AI-driven #robotic #technologies. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/the-3rd-china-embodied-intelligent-robot-industry-conference-exhibition-hangzhou-2026/

China Business Forum

The 3rd China Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Conference & Exhibition (Hangzhou) 2026

The 3rd China Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Conference & Exhibition 2026 takes place March 11–13 in Hangzhou, showcasing humanoid robots, industrial robotics, core technologies, and smart m

China Business Forum

@cnbusinessforum@mstdn.business · 3 hours ago

China Business Forum

The 3rd China Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Conference & Exhibition (Hangzhou) 2026

The 3rd China Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Conference & Exhibition 2026 takes place March 11–13 in Hangzhou, showcasing humanoid robots, industrial robotics, core technologies, and smart m

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Petra van Cronenburg

@NatureMC@mastodon.online · yesterday

I'm always mildly surprised when scientists are suddenly suprised that animals other than humans and great apes could be intelligent. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

The scientific article in @CurrentBiology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0

I recommend Frans de Waals book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" His lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4kpSGRm7E

#anthropocentrism #moreThanHuman #animalBehaviour #intelligence #NatureMatchCuts #animals #cow #cattle

the Guardian

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

Petra van Cronenburg

@NatureMC@mastodon.online · yesterday

The scientific article in @CurrentBiology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0

I recommend Frans de Waals book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" His lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4kpSGRm7E

#anthropocentrism #moreThanHuman #animalBehaviour #intelligence #NatureMatchCuts #animals #cow #cattle

the Guardian

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

Two Concepts of Intelligence

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/two-concepts-of-intelligence/

#HackerNews #TwoConceptsOfIntelligence #Intelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #CognitiveScience #ACMBlog

Two Concepts of Intelligence – Communications of the ACM

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

https://dmvaldman.github.io/rooklift/

#HackerNews #Training #Smartwatch #SmartwatchTech #WearableTech #AITracking #Intelligence

Writings

RookLift

Training my watch to track intelligence

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · last week

Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9r3zl2ywyo

#HackerNews #Ai #Chimpanzee #Ai #Art #Animal #Intelligence #Chimpanzees

Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted, dies at 49

Ai's cognitive abilities had been studied extensively since she was brought to a Japanese institute in 1977.

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

@emilymbender@dair-community.social · 2 weeks ago

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI", especially given all the boosters and AGI-cult members peddling their nonsense about imminent artificial minds. New from me & Nanna Inie on Tech Policy Press -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI":

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

Petra van Cronenburg

@NatureMC@mastodon.online replied · 2 weeks ago

@emilymbender Excellent article.
At the moment, I am wondering why this #anthropomorphizing #AI is going viral at a time when many people are #alienated from #nature, attribute little or no #intelligence to animals, or ridicule the environmental personhood of nature.
We are quicker to attribute personality to an LLM than to a wild boar; we attribute non-existent intelligence to machines, but not to a bee (who undoubtedly demonstrates a kind of intelligence).
What does that say about us humans?

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 2 weeks ago

Now he’s back to insane asylums sending mental patients to the #US.

The man does not know the difference between “seeking asylum” & an “insane asylum”. #Trump is such a fucking moron.

#law #immigration #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 2 weeks ago

#Trump has offered NO details about what the #US running #Venezuela looks like. Will there be an US official there in a leadership position?

As he justifies the #military operation, Trump argued that #Maduro sent members of Tren de Aragua to the US to terrorize the US. Trump’s own #intelligence community earlier this year debunked that claim, finding that the gang was not controlled by the Venezuelan govt.

#law #Congress #WarPowers #abduction #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

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Jan D

@simulo@hci.social · 3 weeks ago

»This gendered dichotomy—reason as male, emotion or irrationality as female—is shown to permeate philosophical traditions, even in instances where philosophers did not explicitly intend to make gendered distinctions.«

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_of_Reason

#rationality #intelligence #feminism

The Man of Reason - Wikipedia

Jan D

@simulo@hci.social · 3 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_of_Reason

#rationality #intelligence #feminism

The Man of Reason - Wikipedia

ASRG

@asrg@tldr.nettime.org · 3 weeks ago

AI Must Die!

Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence

AI MUST DIE is a short zine by Myke Walton and Cam Smith that presents critical perspectives on the way that AI is talked about, governed, and owned in 2025.

AI is fucking everywhere: at work, at school, in our homes, in our phones, on our streets, in our governments, and at war. We are living through an era of extreme AI hype. In this climate, some people have gotten rich off of the stolen data and stolen labor that fuels these technologies. Others have been surveilled, oppressed, exploited, and killed. This text presents a short, practical guide to the technologies currently called “AI,” the ideologies and actors pouring gasoline on the AI dumpsterfire, and what we can do about it.
...
How long will this go on? When will the hype cycle end? Is another AI winter coming? Faced with an inhumane tech industry and complicit governments it may ultimately fall to the people to invent new ways to evade, refuse, resist, sabotage or otherwise destroy AI.
Hammers up! AI Must Die!
Seize the means of computation

Read the full zine here: https://www.aimustdie.info/

The image is a zine cover with a photograph and text. The title of the book is “AI MUST DIE” in large, bold, black letters on a white background. Below the title is the subtitle “Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence” in smaller, black font.

The photograph depicts a white cone-shaped security robot in a pool of water being recovered by two secuirty officers in blue shirts while a woman in a black dress observes.

At the bottom of the cover is text reading “Incident 68: Security Robot Drowns Itself in a Fountain” followed by “AI Incident Database (AIID)” and the URL “incidentdatabase.ai”. — The image is a zine cover with a photograph and text. The title of the book is “AI MUST DIE” in large, bold, black letters on a white background. Below the title is the subtitle “Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence” in smaller, black font. The photograph depicts a white cone-shaped security robot in a pool of water being recovered by two secuirty officers in blue shirts while a woman in a black dress observes. At the bottom of the cover is text reading “Incident 68: Security Robot Drowns Itself in a Fountain” followed by “AI Incident Database (AIID)” and the URL “incidentdatabase.ai”.

Petra van Cronenburg

@NatureMC@mastodon.online replied · 3 weeks ago

@asrg Even if I laugh about the very ironic title (they clearly write that #AI is *no* existence or #intelligence that could die), this #zine is a good compilation for critical questions to ask and for thinking about #AIEthics and rules. A first starter for #activism.

#LLM #genAI #generativeAI #zines #resist #solarpunkSunday #luddites #noAI

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2.pdf

#HackerNews #CIA #Star #Gate #Project #Overview #1993 #pdf #Intelligence #History #Research

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Alexandre Dulaunoy

@adulau@infosec.exchange · last month

The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World

This open source book explores how intelligence and cyber-security analysts can uncover hidden links between threat actor infrastructure and ongoing investigations by pivoting on both classic and unconventional indicators — many of which are often overlooked. The material is grounded in empirical, field-tested strategies used in cyber-security, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence, and intelligence analysis more broadly.

I released the first version of this book following the @firstdotorg CTI Conference 2025 in Berlin, where the initial idea for the project emerged.

🔗 PDF https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adulau/the-art-of-pivoting/refs/heads/main/output/the-art-of-pivoting.pdf

🔗 Source of the book in Markdown https://github.com/adulau/the-art-of-pivoting (if you want to contribute ;-)

#cti #threatintelligence #pivoting #pivot #intelligence #intelligencecommunity #cybersecurity #book #openbook #investigation #opensource

@misp
@ail_project

Fabienne Verdier (born 1962) is a French painter who works in France after years of studies in China. She was the first non-Chinese woman to be awarded a post-graduate diploma in fine arts by the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China.

The photography was taken by Alexandre Dulaunoy at Poétique de la ligne, exposition de Fabienne Verdier au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2025.

I chose an image from Fabienne Verdier’s Poétique de la ligne because it visually echoes the essence of pivoting. Her work is not about representing objects, but about tracing lines that connect forces, movements, and spaces that would otherwise remain separate. A single line can bridge different scales, different energies, and different worlds.

This is precisely what pivoting aims to do in intelligence analysis: to trace meaningful lines between data points that appear unrelated at first glance, and to move across technical, human, and contextual domains. Just as Verdier’s line is both deliberate and exploratory, pivoting is an act of disciplined intuition—following a connection far enough to see whether it reveals structure, meaning, or truth.

The image serves as a reminder that analysis is not only about accumulation, but about connection: the art of drawing lines where others see fragments. — Fabienne Verdier (born 1962) is a French painter who works in France after years of studies in China. She was the first non-Chinese woman to be awarded a post-graduate diploma in fine arts by the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China. The photography was taken by Alexandre Dulaunoy at Poétique de la ligne, exposition de Fabienne Verdier au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2025. I chose an image from Fabienne Verdier’s Poétique de la ligne because it visually echoes the essence of pivoting. Her work is not about representing objects, but about tracing lines that connect forces, movements, and spaces that would otherwise remain separate. A single line can bridge different scales, different energies, and different worlds. This is precisely what pivoting aims to do in intelligence analysis: to trace meaningful lines between data points that appear unrelated at first glance, and to move across technical, human, and contextual domains. Just as Verdier’s line is both deliberate and exploratory, pivoting is an act of disciplined intuition—following a connection far enough to see whether it reveals structure, meaning, or truth. The image serves as a reminder that analysis is not only about accumulation, but about connection: the art of drawing lines where others see fragments.

GitHub

GitHub - adulau/the-art-of-pivoting: The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World

The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World - adulau/the-art-of-pivoting

Alexandre Dulaunoy

@adulau@infosec.exchange · last month

The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World

I released the first version of this book following the @firstdotorg CTI Conference 2025 in Berlin, where the initial idea for the project emerged.

🔗 PDF https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adulau/the-art-of-pivoting/refs/heads/main/output/the-art-of-pivoting.pdf

🔗 Source of the book in Markdown https://github.com/adulau/the-art-of-pivoting (if you want to contribute ;-)

#cti #threatintelligence #pivoting #pivot #intelligence #intelligencecommunity #cybersecurity #book #openbook #investigation #opensource

@misp
@ail_project

GitHub

GitHub - adulau/the-art-of-pivoting: The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World

The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World - adulau/the-art-of-pivoting

Matteo Cesari

@macesari@mastodon.social · last month

Here we are! Today is one of those days... 23 emails in less than one hour (and coming)...

The "Reply All" button: humanity’s most significant #IQ test. Sadly, most contestants fail spectacularly.

That button deserves a global #ban list...

#Email #ReplyAll #Intelligence #Humans #Time

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last month

Japan is moving to create a National Intelligence Bureau as part of a broader effort to break down intelligence silos, strengthen information protection and modernize its intelligence system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/14/japan/japans-planned-intelligence-bureau/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #defense #intelligence #sanaetakaichi #nationalintelligencebureau #nationalsecuritysecretariat #nationalsecuritycouncil #liberaldemocraticparty #japaninnovationparty #shinzoabe #fiveeyes

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de · last month

Are more reflective thinkers better at games that require empathy or perspective-taking?

In two experiments, reflective thinkers performed better on such games, seemingly because they paid more attention to the other players' incentives.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500007373

#econ #cogSci #psychology #relationships #negotiation #diplomacy #geopolitics #intelligence #defense #security #policy

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"Nash equilibrium is a game solution in which none of the players has a self-interested incentive to deviate from its own strategy after considering the counterpart’s choice. In Experiment 1, we used a particular class of game called dominance-solvable. These games contain an option which is better than another one for a player, independently of the action the counterpart will take. We refer to this option as a dominant strategy.3 In Experiment 1, we used two classes of dominance-solvable games characterized by diﬀerent equilibrium structures, creating sixteen 2x2 games for each class (for a full list of game matrices, see Figure A1 in section A.1, Appendices). The two classes of games (Figure 1) were: (1) dominance solvable “self” games (DSS), in which only the participant had a strictly dominant strategy; (2) dominance solvable “other” games (DSO), in which only the opponent had a strictly dominant strategy."

"In order to explore the type of visual analysis performed by participants, transitions were divided in ﬁve major types (Figure 2), following the classiﬁcation of Devetag and colleagues (2016):

1) own-payoﬀs within-action transitions: transitions between player’s own payoﬀs within a single row (necessary to identify the action with the highest average payoﬀ).

2) own-payoﬀs between-action transitions: ....

3) other-payoﬀs within-action transitions: ...

4) other-payoﬀs between-action transitions: transitions between the counterpart’s payoﬀs within a single row (necessary to identify the presence of counterpart’s dominant choices).

5) intra-cell transitions: transitions between the payoﬀs of the two players, within the same cell (necessary to compare the two players’ payoﬀs given a speciﬁc combination of choices)." — "In order to explore the type of visual analysis performed by participants, transitions were divided in ﬁve major types (Figure 2), following the classiﬁcation of Devetag and colleagues (2016): 1) own-payoﬀs within-action transitions: transitions between player’s own payoﬀs within a single row (necessary to identify the action with the highest average payoﬀ). 2) own-payoﬀs between-action transitions: .... 3) other-payoﬀs within-action transitions: ... 4) other-payoﬀs between-action transitions: transitions between the counterpart’s payoﬀs within a single row (necessary to identify the presence of counterpart’s dominant choices). 5) intra-cell transitions: transitions between the payoﬀs of the two players, within the same cell (necessary to compare the two players’ payoﬀs given a speciﬁc combination of choices)."

"the model that best predicts the proportion of equilibrium choices included only the CRT score (R 2 = .11, F (1, 46) = 5.59, B = 0.33, p = .022), while we did not ﬁnd any eﬀect of ﬂuid intelligence or working memory".

"the average causal mediation effect of proportion of other-payoﬀs within-action transitions on the relation between CRT score and proportion of equilibrium responses is statistically signiﬁcant (p = .002, based on 10000 bootstrap samples), accounting for an estimated 58 % of the total eﬀect between CRT score and proportion of equilibrium responses (Table 4)."

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last month

Japan plans to create a ministerial post for intelligence-related matters as it works to enhance its ability to collect and analyze domestic and foreign information, government officials said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/09/japan/politics/intelligence-ministerial-post/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #diet #intelligence #defense #cabinet

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last month

Chimpanzees show genuine reasoning and metacognition — the ability to weigh evidence, update beliefs and judge what they do or don’t know — while current AI systems do not. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/09/world/what-chimps-think-of-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #chimpanzees #primates #artificialintelligence #ai #intelligence