Weird & Interesting science, take 2

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OPINION: Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins

Look at the suggestion that IT staff should make agentic digital twins of themselves to, ahem, reduce the amount of burdensome work they have to personally do. That's a room with enough elephants to restock Africa, if it worked. If your twin mucks up, who carries the can? What’s the difference between "burdensome work" and "job?" Who owns the twin when you leave? Have none of these people seen the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment of Fantasia?Fortunately, a better question leading on from that: whether the idea is science fiction or fantasy, and like all good speculative fiction there's both history and logic to help us decide.

History first. The proposal isn't new, it's a reprise of a spectacular AI failure from the mid-'80s: expert systems.