Jason Moore

@moorejh.bsky.social

Chair, Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Director, Center for Artificial AI Research & Education. Agentic AI. Atari enthusiast. Retrocomputing. Maker.

Can the latest version of Eliza on the ZX Spectrum feel empathy? It at least behaves as if it does, according to a guy who typed in the magazine code listing for it after installing a new Cheetah 32K rampack.

Hi! Spectrum Player 1
I'm Eliza. What's your problem?
I do not really have many problems
Are you saying no, just to be negative?
No I am being honest I really feel OK today
Did you come to me because you are being honest you really feel OK today
Well not really
You are being a bit negative.
Science Magazine@science.org · 2w ago

Can the new cutting-edge AI models feel pain? They at least behave as if they do, according to a recent study. The work, which has not been peer reviewed, has divided #AI researchers. https://scim.ag/4hHU6BA

Can an AI feel pain? It can at least act like it does
Study reignites debate over what, if anything, machines can feel

"Excessive data downloading: Agents[...]made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages[...]and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service" wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10...

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects – Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation found “rogue” OpenAI agents on its wikis, raising concerns about risks to its free knowledge projects and the open web.

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I wrote a symbolic discriminant analysis (SDA) program in Lisp as a new assistant professor. A wonderfully interesting programming language #coding (defun hello-world () (format t "Hello, world!~%")) (hello-world)