If we don’t even understand the problem ourselves, what exactly are we asking AI to get right?

Just wrapped up #IJCNN2025 in Rome—shared thoughts on creativity in the age of AI.

Next up: #FOIS2025 in Catania, where I’ll switch gears to AI trust & verification.

Two poles, two position papers—together sketching a wide horizon.
Bellini awaits. So does Etna. So does the work.

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#ijcnn2025

Behind every researcher is a paper they’re too scared to ask the status of.

Excited to share that our position paper, “Reinvigorating Structured Knowledge and Ontologies for Trustworthy and Beneficial AI and Robotics,” has been accepted to the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025).

Note: Theory of Weaponization of Anything

Hashem Al-Ghaili Researchers have revived ELIZA, the world’s first chatbot! They used its original code, which was found in MIT archives after going missing for 60 years. Developed by Professor Joseph Weizenbaum,...

Beyond being a technical milestone, the revival of ELIZA underscores the importance of preserving Al history.
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LLM = Language Lumping Machine (語料絞肉機)

They're paid with the people's money—they should be working diligently and professionally for the good of the country. But not only do they do nothing, they go out of their way to cause damage! Kicking them out is far from enough—they don’t deserve even that much leniency.

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Music is deceptive -- it often makes people think they have talent just because they enjoy it or dabble in it.

Google Is Illegally Monopolizing Online Advertising Tech, Judge Rules The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.

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positioning or posturing?

And yet—it survived.
Even in the age of AI, it’s still alive.
And it’s ready to strike back, anytime.

When I composed my chamber art song cycle Song of the Afterglow《微光之歌》 last year, I thought I understood my own state of mind—my reasons.
But only today did I realize: what I held onto wasn’t an outcome, but an insistence on intransitivity—this quiet, purposeless kind of faith that somehow endured.

The professor gently offered a reflection:
“Are you perhaps talking about a kind of formation that isn’t tied to any particular domain?”

Somehow, that question struck a chord so deep I nearly broke down.

Had a moving conversation today with a deeply thoughtful professor in my department.
We were discussing how, in an age where everything—including people—is being instrumentalized, we might launch a counterattack through interdisciplinary AI education.

“Communication is . . . autopoietic insofar as it can only be produced in a recursive relationship to other communications, that is to say, only in a network, to the reproduction of which each individual communication contributes.” (Paper as Passion: Niklas Luhmann and His Card Index by M Krajewski)

Is developing an ontology from an LLM really feasible? It is, perhaps, a contentious question. I won’t take for an answer a “yes, because LLMs are indistinguishable from magic” – I know they aren’t. It is understandable why ontology developers would wa…

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" . . . data is anything but “raw,” that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted."

~ "Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron, by Lisa Gitelman et al.

Please allow me to decide whether a specific letter in my name should be capitalized.